ABOUT LOVE ADDICT

This documentary will explore the nature of the disorder “love addiction” through personal stories of love addicts and the people around them. It will search to understand what creates this peculiar disorder and describe the struggles and cravings for the ultimate aphrodisiac: Love.

Love addicts fall in love with a fantasy. They seek someone to rescue them. Someone who can give their life meaning and who can save them from their own life. They seek someone they can get “high” on. Very often love addicts fall for someone who does not love them back or won’t commit and this causes many problems, both for the love addict and the person they are addicted to.

About the director

Pernille Rose Grønkjær (born 1973) graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1997 and has earned many awards and recognition for her documentary films and television productions over the past 15 years. Her international feature length documentary THE MONASTERY – ‘Mr. Vig and the Nun’ opened at The International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) and won the festival’s prestigious 1st price. With 11 awards and more than 60 festivals the world over THE MONASTERY has become an important milestone in the strong international brand that Danish documentary is today and established Grønkjær as a storyteller with a universal language and a cinematic vision.

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PRODUCTION INFO

Title: Love Addict

Genre: Feature documentary

Release year: 2011

Length: 75 min & 58 min

CREDITS

Director: Pernille Rose Grønkjær

Producers: Sigrid Dyekjær, Danish Documentary Production

Co-producer: Margarete Jangård, WG Film

Editor: Pernille Bech Christensen

With support from: The Danish Film Institute & TV2 Denmark, ZDF/ARTE, VPRO. NRK, SFI, SVT, YLE, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, DBS, Against Gravity, CBC, ORF

FESTIVALS

ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival Zagreb, Croatia 2008

Docs, Thessaloniki Greece 2008

Skånska Filmdagarna Malmö, Sweden 2008

Slow food film festival Bologna, Italy 2009