Dudley Sutton's character strives to build up the courage to approach the object of his affections over the course of a few days. We follow the action across urban London and intimate domestic scenes in a series of beautiful shots. Missed opportunity leads to missed opportunity until our protagonist finally decides to take destiny into his own hands. Their climactic first meeting is tragically never to take place however, and the film ends with a heartfelt scene of loss, featuring actress Catherine Steadman (The Inbetweeners, The Tudors).
Filmed as a short, the approach to the action was as to a TV drama; "This was a very personal project for me." comments director Ben Strebel. "I feel very strongly that older people go unnoticed in this country and wanted to reverse the usual music video focus on youth to show that the emotions of love and loss are universal ones. It was a delight to work with such a strong cast; the performance of Dudley Sutton in particular is an extraordinary one. When I submitted the idea of this story to Island Records it was always framed as a short film, they believed in it working in both formats and it was fantastic to have been enabled to realize the project in this unusual way."
This beautiful story was then graded by our Colourist Houmam Abdallah, who achieved Ben's brief of a music video that looked and felt like a short film or tv drama. He added, "I worked on the film's natural look and enhanced it's cinematic qualities allowing the footage to speak for itself."