For Love Alone (1986)

For Love Alone | Australia

Christina Stead's novel For Love Alone was a best-seller in Australia, but remains essentially unknown to the outside world. The same can be said for this 1986 film version, likewise a homegrown Australian product. Set in the 1930s, the film stars Helen Buhay as a starry-eyed young girl chafing under the oppressive attitudes of society in general and her father in particular. She kicks over the traces to enter into a romance with college Latin professor Hugo Weaving. Still not realizing that Weaving considers her a pleasant diversion and nothing more, Helen nearly misses out on a chance for happiness with liberal-minded banker Sam Neill. Once she's settled down with Neill, the idealistic Buhay is smitten by another aesthete, poet Huw Williams. Neill encourages this affair, hoping that Buhay will eventually realize that there's more to true love than mere sexual impulsiveness.

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Director

Stephen Wallace

Stars

Helen Buday
Teresa

Sam Neill
James Quick

Hugo Weaving
Jonathan Crow

Huw Williams
Harry

Hugh Keays-Byrne
Andrew

Odile Le Clezio
Kitty

John Polson
Leo

Linden Wilkinson
Miss Haviland

Nicholas Opolski
Lance

Judi Farr
Aunt Bea

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Keywords

1930s, true love, literary adaptation

Production

The Australian Film Commission, UAA Films, Western Film Productions

Actor

Helen Buday, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving, Huw Williams, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Odile Le Clezio, John Polson, Linden Wilkinson, Nicholas Opolski, Judi Farr, Anna Lise Phillips, Tracey Higginson, Regina Gaigalas, Naomi Watts, Jennifer Hagan, Denise Roberts, Jenny Vuletic, Anna North

Creators

Eithné Fennel (Hairstylist), Alun Bollinger (Director of Photography), Margaret Fink (Producer), Roger Cowland (Visual Effects), Bob Costanza (Sound Editor), Stephen Wallace (Director), Henry Dangar (Editor), Lesley Vanderwalt (Makeup Artist), John Wingrove (Art Direction), John Stoddart (Production Design), Helen Brown (Sound Editor), Cheryl Williams (Hairstylist), Karin Whittington (Dialogue Editor), Nathan Waks (Music), Julia Overton (Post Production Supervisor), Jennie Tate (Costume Designer), Sue Wild (Production Manager), Syd Butterworth (Sound), Gai Steele (Assistant Editor), Greg Bell (Supervising Sound Editor), Peter Fenton (Sound Mixer), Lesley McLennan (Wardrobe Supervisor), Pamela Barnetta (Assistant Editor), David Thomas (Executive Producer), Ron Purvis (Sound Editor), Keiran Hanson (Special Effects), Ray Fowler (Special Effects), Christina Stead (Novel), Carolynne Cunningham (Second Assistant Director), Phil Heywood (Sound Mixer), Mark Turnbull (First Assistant Director), Danny Batterham (Camera Operator), Danielle Wiessner (First Assistant Sound Editor), Vivian Zink (Still Photographer), Mandy King (Assistant Camera), Andrew Mclean (Focus Puller), Daphne Paris (Continuity), Brian Nickless (Scenic Artist), Ray Pedler (Scenic Artist), Peter Voeten (Third Assistant Director), Suzanne Donnolley (Production Coordinator), Christine Dunstan (Art Department Coordinator), Alan Fleming (Construction Manager), Chris Cole (Clapper Loader)

Release dates

22.05.1986 (AU)

For Love Alone (1986)

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