“There isn’t a moment I won’t be there with you,” Liam Neeson tells Lesley Manville in a new trailer for “Ordinary Love.” Joan (Manville) and Tom (Neeson) have spent their lives together, but now they’re facing an uncertain future. Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn’s drama sees the couple’s world rocked when Joan (Manville) is diagnosed with cancer.
The spot suggests that Tom is true to his word — he’s shown by Joan’s side at the hospital and at home. Neither he nor Joan could have predicted what would happen, but it’s clear that they’ve had a lot of practice over the years offering one another love and support.
“I had this feeling that if I could get through it all it would somehow change me,” Joan says, seemingly referring to her cancer diagnosis. “I don’t think it has. I don’t think I want it to.”
“I think you always look for something unique but somehow recognizable — some insight that hasn’t been communicated in quite that way before. This story felt unusual to us as it explored neither the beginning nor end of a love story, but the small moments and big challenges at the very heart of it,” Barros D’Sa told us. “It’s unsentimental but full of joy and warmth between two people who have learned together how to weather everything life can throw. It focuses on the minutiae that make up a life and a love.” She added, “We were also drawn to depicting a vibrant relationship between two people who are passionately engaged with each other after a lifetime together — something we might celebrate in life but rarely see on screen.”
Barros D’Sa and Leyburn’s previous credits include “Cherrybomb” and “Good Vibrations.”
“Ordinary Love” made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month and hits UK theaters December 6. A U.S. release date hasn’t been announced.
