Lonely Hearts
Clip 3: ‘I don’t believe you’
2 min 56 sec
Taken from the feature Lonely Hearts (1981)
Original title classification M – this clip chosen to be PG
Availability of the complete title
Curator’s clip description
Relations between Peter (Norman Kaye) and Patricia (Wendy Hughes) are strained, but they must continue rehearsals for the play, an amateur production of August Strindberg’s The Father, directed by the flamboyantly theatrical George (John Finlayson). Peter tries to engage Patricia in conversation, between lines of the play, without success.
Curator’s notes
Equal amounts of absurd comedy and high emotion, as Peter, clad in a straitjacket, tries to win back the woman he thinks he loves. The carpenter making all the noise on the set is the co-writer of the film, John Clarke.
Paul Byrnes, curator
have teachers’ notes.
