IS IT POSSIBLE THAT YOUR SUCCESS IN LOVE IS GENETIC?
‘LOSER IN LOVE GENE’ DISCOVERED IN NEW BRITISH COMEDY
First time feature director Sasha Collington will bring her comedy love story LOVE TYPE D to the 73rd Edinburgh Film Festival next week, where it will screen as part of The Best of British Strand and is nominated for the Audience Award.
Based on a short that Sasha also wrote and directed, LOVE TYPE D is the hilarious story of Frankie, who after being dumped twelve times in a row, discovers to her dismay that she has a loser in love gene.
How can someone love you yesterday and not today? Shortly after her boyfriend sends his 12-year-old brother Wilbur (Rory Stroud – formerly Bobby Beale in EastEnders) to break the news that she’s dumped, 27-year-old Frankie Browne (Maeve Dermody – And Then There Were None and soon to be seen in The Secret Garden, alongside Colin Firth and Amazon’s new fantasy series, Carnival Row) discovers that she has a loser in love gene. Every man she goes out with will inevitably break up with her.
And Frankie is not alone. It is estimated by scientists that one in five people have the gene for romantic misfortune.
Facing a lifetime of romantic failure, Frankie turns to the only genetics expert she knows: her former nemesis, Wilbur, a schoolboy science prodigy. Wilbur develops a maverick theory to reverse her romantic fortunes, based on his work studying the DNA of hamsters. This theory sets into motion an unexpected and comic journey into Frankie’s past and her questionable romantic choices, as Frankie struggles to understand the intricacies of the human heart and whether your genes are truly your destiny.
The cast also includes Tovah Feldshuh (The Walking Dead) who plays Dr. Elsa Blomgren, Oliver Farnworth (Coronation Street, Mr. Selfridge) as Frankie’s love of her life, Thomas and acting newcomer, William Joseph Firth who we last saw on screen with his father Colin Firth in Bridget Jones’s Baby
Nominated for The Audience Award
Director Sasha Collington and Rory Stroud (Wilbur) will be attending the Festival.
Friday 21 June 18:10 Odeon 4 (Public Screening)
Saturday 22 June 15:40 VUE Omni 12 (Public Screening)