I Love You, I Love You Not (1996)

Director:

Billy Hopkins

Writer:

Wendy Kesselman (play)

Release Date:

31 October 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Prep school student Daisy and her European-born grandmother Nana share the sad stories of their lives:...

Plot Keywords:

Grandmother | Anti Semitism | Teenage Girl | Barefoot | High School

Cast

Jeanne Moreau	...	Nana
Claire Danes	...	Daisy / Young Nana
Jude Law	...	Ethan
James Van Der Beek	...	Tony
Christopher Elsewhere	...	Seth (as Kris Park)
Lauren Fox	...	Alison
Emily Burkes-Nossiter	...	Jessica
Carrie Szlasa	...	Jane (as Carrie Slaza)
Natasha Wolff	...	Hope
Josiah A. Mayo	...	Chris
Brandon Danziger	...	Josh
Alex Ballar	...	Alex
Elzbieta Czyzewska	...	Dora
Frederick Neumann	...	School Principal
Peter F. Hopkins	...	Mr. Douglas
Jerry Tanklow	...	Mr. Gilman
Julia Stiles	...	Young Nana's Friend
Ashley Fletcher	...	Marushya
Brittany Fletcher	...	Varushya
Robert Sean Leonard	...	Angel of Death
Haley Fox	...	Party Girl #1
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dimitri DeFresco	...	Holocaust Child (uncredited)
Bethany Joy Galeotti	...	(uncredited)
Eliza Harris	...	Holocaust child (uncredited)

Directed by
Billy Hopkins

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Wendy Kesselman		play

Produced by
Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr.	....	producer (as Joe Caracciolo Jr.)
John Fiedler	....	producer
Wilma Harzenetter	....	associate producer
Gerhard Hegele	....	line producer
Frank Henschke	....	co-producer
Ilene S. Landress	....	line producer
Cameron McCracken	....	executive producer
Pierre Novat	....	co-producer
Suzanne Smith	....	associate producer
Mark Tarlov	....	producer
Glen Trotiner	....	associate producer
Bob Weinstein	....	executive producer
Harvey Weinstein	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Gil Goldstein

Cinematography by
Maryse Alberti		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Paul Karasick

Casting by
Kerry Barden

Production Design by
William Barclay

Art Direction by
Richard Blankenship
Caty Maxey
Gudrun Roscher

Set Decoration by
Claudia Hasenstab
Janine Michelle

Costume Design by
Sabine Böbbis
Candice Donnelly

Makeup Department
Lisette Bugeja	....	key hair stylist
Angela Johnson	....	key makeup artist
Henny Zimmer	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Debra Tanklow	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Eric Fisher	....	first assistant director
Jason A. Fisher	....	second assistant director
Jude Gorjanc	....	first assistant director: reshoots
Pamela Meyer-Arndt	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Mark White	....	assistant set decorator

Sound Department
Julie Ankerson	....	foley artist
Mark Auguste	....	supervising sound editor
Mark Berger	....	sound re-recording mixer
Gordon Brown	....	foley editor
Oliver Brown	....	assistant sound editor
Felicity Cottrell	....	foley artist
Stephen Crook	....	foley artist
John Fewell	....	foley artist
Tim Hands	....	adr editor
Tim Hands	....	dialogue editor
Rolf Hapke	....	sound mixer
Paul Koronkiewicz	....	boom operator
Mark Lafbery	....	foley mixer
Matthias Obergarz	....	boom operator
Jeff Pullman	....	sound mixer
Scott Pullman	....	cable person
Michael Semanick	....	re-recording effects mixer

Stunts
Peter Bucossi	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Jeffrey A. Danielson	....	electrician
Georg Fick	....	gaffer
Adam Grabel	....	camera trainee
Dave Samuel	....	gaffer

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Sabine Böbbis	....	assistant costume designer

Editorial Department
Andrea Isaac	....	assistant editor
Mark Perzely	....	first assistant editor
Tom San Martin	....	negative matcher
Arnold Shuster	....	negative matcher
Patricia Sztaba	....	negative matcher
Stan Sztaba	....	negative matcher

Other crew
Monica Castellanos	....	set production assistant
Roy Farfel	....	safety coordinator
Kyle O'Brien	....	assistant production accountant
Jennifer L. Pearlman	....	production assistant
Bernhard Speck	....	production accountant: Germany
Beth Tyler	....	script supervisor
Al Valentine	....	location manager
Hilary Walker	....	key assistant location manager

Thanks
Jon Amiel	....	thanks
Bille August	....	thanks
Cynthia Nixon	....	thanks

Production Companies

• Canal+ (with the participation of)
• Chrysalis Films (in association with)
• Die Hauskunst (in association with)
• Filmstiftung North Rhine Westphalia (with the participation of)
• Polar Entertainment Corporation (as A Polar Production)
• Rimb Production (in association with) (as Rimb Productions)

Distributors

• Avalanche Releasing (1997) (USA)
• BIM Distribuzione (Italy)
• Buena Vista Home Video
• Columbia TriStar Films de España (Spain)
• Nelonen (2002) (2007) (Finland) (TV)
• Nordisk Film Home Entertainment (1997) (Finland) (VHS)
• Sony Pictures Video

Other Companies

• Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen  funding
• Saul Zaentz Film Center  sound re-recording

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for brief strong language and teen drinking.

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

France | Germany | UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:L | Finland:S | South Korea:15 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) | Spain:7 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

New York, USA

Company:

Canal+

Trivia:

Julia Stiles' movie debut.

Soundtrack:

It's Nice

Heartfelt..but dissapointing

Essentially, this movie has all the makings for..well, a better one. Claire Danes plays a quiet girl with sad eyes, and unloving parents who spends most of her time with her Grandmother. One day in english class, she reads aloud a poem written about Jude Law's character, "Ethan", who is the stereotypical jock/playboy on campus. The two get together...blah blah blah..

I won't tell you anymore except the the ending is VERY dissapointing. It's as though the movie just, ends. You don't see it coming, you feel like it should be starting to get good, and the plot holes filled up..well, they aren't, and it does. It's really quite aggrivating. Jude Law and Claire Danes performances are great, but not quite enough to push this movie onto my favourite list. But, don't let me discourage you, it's worth the rent.