Lockdown Lovers

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It is this tension between becoming “faceless” ( dismembered) and seen ( re-membered) that drives the novel. Written by Danny Spring, the romantic drama was produced by Forster alongside Lilydale Films’ Melanie Rowland and was shot in studio and on location in Victoria’s Yarra Valley with the support of VicScreen and Screen Australia. Lockdown Lovers came out earlier this year and takes place in Hong Kong mainly during the beginning of the pandemic. Lilydale Films has amassed a global audience through their hit web-series Flunk, which garnered 150 million views across YouTube and sparked two spin-off feature films. Please be aware that different computers produce colours differently so colours may look different on your actual print to how they appear on your screen.

Reflecting on their shared time together, it hasn’t all been easy: “I think there’s been more little fights and getting on each other’s nerves here and there because we are around each other so much,” says Carolina. This entry was posted in 2021 Books, 2023 Entries, Cha Review of Books and Films, Lockdown Lovers, Lucy Hamilton, Lucy Hamilton—Cha, Michael O'Sullivan, Michael O'Sullivan, Lockdown Lovers, Penguin Random House SEA, Penguin Random House SEA. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. We were comfortable letting off steam with each other and then disappearing from each other’s lives, no questions asked, sometimes for years on end. Lilydale Films is currently in pre-production for the fifth season of its Young Adult Romance drama series Flunk, with development and production support from Screen Australia and VicScreen.

At the same time, John knows he should stay back with Sue and Sam, yet still goes ahead with his trip to Ireland. Top Ten British Film Actors of the 1970s who Didn’t Become Film Stars Stephen Vagg turns his eye to the British film industry of the 1970s and asks why a country that produced .

Throughout the novel, the lives of Kwok-Ying and John and Phoebe intersect briefly and inconsequentially but it wouldn’t matter if they didn’t.We meet John, who sits in a 24-hour McDonald’s in the Hong Kong suburb of Sai Kung, sipping warm water and ruminating on the state of the city.

Considering the tiny apartments packed with bunk beds in densely packed neighbourhoods, what kind of mobility was there before the pandemic? Hong Kong is suddenly governed by “news reports” and the whims of corporations, and for the individual, even phrases the “living room … take on new meaning now”. After matching, they went on Zoom dates and got to know each other before meeting up in a park just outside of Glasgow.When she heard about the number of fledgling couples moving in together during lockdown, the Relate therapist Simone Bose wasn’t surprised. And yet, the virus lingers in the background, transforming this scene from a moment of pleasure to a moment of pleasurable escape. But for every whirlwind romance that worked out this year, there are plenty that couldn’t take the intensity of pandemic.

It is not the harrowing news reports and images that define the novel but his characters’ response to them. Blumberg-Kason now lives in Chicago and spends her free time volunteering with senior citizens in Chinatown.While people may be social-distancing, the shared experience of the virus offers a new kind of proximity. When they part “not knowing when or where we would meet again [which feels] like the most natural thing in the world”, their separation is more affecting than the parting of the lovers from which the novel derives its name. Sue’s family is in Hong Kong and she has a support system in the city, but he can’t help but worry about his parents half a world away. As a reader, it felt good to laugh about these shared experiences and to know that it’s all right and even normal to be anti-social these days. Lockdown Lovers is a five-part love story set in lockdown conditions in two regions, Asia and Europe.