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For Love Alone is a 1986 Australian film written and directed by Stephen Wallace and based on Christina Stead's 1945 novel of the same name. It stars Helen Buday, Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill and Naomi Watts in her film debut. The film was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.
May 22, 1986 · For Love Alone: Directed by Stephen Wallace. With Helen Buday, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving, Huw Williams. A poor young woman in 1930's Australia falls in love with a dashing but arrogant teacher who preaches free love and watered down socialist precepts.
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- History, Romance
- Stephen Wallace
- 1986-05-22
She must then choose between love and sexual freedom. In 1930s Australia, Teresa (Helen Buday) is a young woman who feels as though she's shackled to her life as a caretaker for her widowed...
- Romance
- Helen Buday, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving
- Stephen Wallace
En route she meets the gentle banker James Quick. Whilst navigating her relationships in London, including with a political poet bound for the Spanish Civil War, she experiences a transformation in her understanding of love. Based upon Christina Stead's best-selling Australian novel.
Teresa is a spirited young girl chafing under the oppressive attitudes of 1930s society, and her father in particular. She fancies her poverty-stricken Latin tutor Johnathan Crow, without realising he merely considers her a pleasant diversion and nothing more, and eventually follows him from Sydney to London.
- Stephen Wallace
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