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A Thousand Kisses Deep
DVD release artwork
Directed byDana Lustig
Written by
  • Alex Kustanovich
  • Vadim Moldovan
Starring
Production
company
Tomori Films
Distributed byOsiris Entertainment (USA)
Release dates
  • 29 September 2011 (2011-09-29) (Raindance Film Festival)
  • 15 June 2012 (2012-06-15) (United Kingdom)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

A Thousand Kisses Deep is a 2011 film directed by Dana Lustig and based on a screenplay by Alex Kustanovich and Vadim Moldovan. The film, starring Dougray Scott, Jodie Whittaker and Emilia Fox, is a fantastical thriller about a young woman who, via time-travel, pieces together the events that led to her own death. The film premiered at the 2011 Raindance Film Festival in the United Kingdom and was released in June 2012 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The film was released in the United States on DVD and digital platforms on 6 August 2013 by Osiris Entertainment.

Plot

Mia (Jodie Whittaker) has witnessed her neighbour commit suicide by jumping from their mansion flats. At the pavement where the woman's body lies, Mia discovers pieces of a photograph of an ex-lover. Mia is convinced this is a reflection of her own future, and with the assistance of the building's kindly caretaker (David Warner) - and a lift that encompasses the ability to travel back and forwards through time - is able to revisit the most significant stages of her life, with the hope she can stop the event from happening. She does this by trying to convince a younger version of herself to avoid the lover that broke her heart and made life unlivable. He is a married man old enough to be her father.

(Spoiler alert) She fails at each attempt at keeping man she falls in love with away from her younger self. With each journey down in the lift she travels further back in time. She finally goes so far back that she is still in the womb and see's her mother and father together, and the man she fell in love with is her father! She shoots him and the movie ends.

Cast

Production

Production was announced in December 2009 on the film, then titled The Veil of Maya. Production would begin in London in January 2010, with Dougray Scott the first cast member on board.[1]

Director Dana Lustig was the one who asked for the film's title to be changed from The Veil of Maya to Harmony and eventually A Thousand Kisses Deep. "It was originally called The Veil of Maya, but my daughter is called Maya..... so we changed the name to Mia. But people said the title didn’t mean anything, so we changed it to Harmony, because of the music element and the idea of having harmony between yourself and your past and your future, but nobody got that either! So the producers came up with the idea of A Thousand Kisses Deep, and adding the [ Leonard Cohen ] poem at the beginning and end."[2]

Actor Dougray Scott took up playing trumpet for the film. Guy Barker taught him.[3]

Release

The film premiered at the Raindance Film Festival in the United Kingdom on 29 September 2011.[4] The film was released theatrically in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 15 June 2012,[5] and on DVD in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2013.[6] The film premiered on DVD and digital in the United States on 6 August 2013.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Dougray Scott to star in "Maya"". Variety. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  2. ^ Radford, Ivan. "Raindance Interview: Dana Lustig (A Thousand Kisses Deep)". i-flicks.net. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  3. ^ "Dougray Scott takes up trumpet for new thriller A Thousand Kisses Deep". Dailyrecord.co.uk. Daily Record.
  4. ^ Kemp, Stuart (6 September 2011). "Chilean Drama 'Bonsai' to Close 2011 Raindance Film Festival". The Hollywood Reporter.
  5. ^ "A Thousand Kisses Deep". Screenrush.co.uk.
  6. ^ "A Thousand Kisses Deep UK DVD Release". We Love Entertainment.
  7. ^ "A Thousand Kisses Deep - Osiris Entertainment". Osiris Entertainment.
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