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My Love Affair with Marriage

My Love Affair with Marriage is a 2022 semi-autobiographical adult animated musical comedy-drama film animated, written and directed by Signe Baumane, her second feature following Rocks in My Pockets (2014). The story follows a young woman, Zelma, on her 23-year quest for perfect love and lasting marriage, set against a backdrop of historic events in Eastern Europe. Pressured by Mythology Sirens to be the ideal woman and is unable to free herself from the biology of her own brain, Zelma finds love and loses it multiple times before discovering who she really is. Told from a female point of view, this is a coming-of-age story of love, gender, marriage, abuse, hopes, fantasies, and ultimately, finding a better place for women in society.

My Love Affair with Marriage
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Directed bySigne Baumane
Written bySigne Baumane
Produced by
Starring
Edited by
  • Signe Baumane
  • Sturgis Warner
Music byKristian Sensini
Animation by
  • Signe Baumane
  • Yajun Shi (Biology animation)
Layouts bySigne Baumane
Production
companies
  • Studio Locomotive
  • The Marriage Project
  • Antevita Films
Distributed by
Release date
  • June 11, 2022 (2022-06-11) (Tribeca)
Running time
108 minutes
Countries
  • Latvia
  • United States
  • Luxembourg
LanguageEnglish

An international co-production of companies in Latvia, the United States and Luxembourg, the film took seven years to complete. Kristian Sensini of Italy composed 24 songs and wrote the score. Yajun Shi of China animated the Biology sections. Dagmara Dominczyk[1] voices Zelma, with executive producer Matthew Modineas being one of Zelma's husbands.[2]

My Love Affair with Marriage had its world premiere at Tribeca Festival on June 11, 2022[3] and went on to screen at many other international festivals. It won a Jury Distinction for a Feature Film award at Annecy International Animation Film Festival,[4] an Excellence in Narrative Directing award at Woodstock Film Festival,[5] Best Feature Film awards at both Viborg Animation Festival[6] and Fredrikstad Animation Festival[7] and was nominated for a European Film Academy Award,[8] the first Latvian film to do so. Huffington Post named it as "one of the best movies of 2022."[9]

Plot

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Hungry for love and acceptance, young Zelma feels incomplete. Hounded by three singing Mythology Sirens, she sets out on a 23-year quest for perfect love and lasting marriage. She is unaware, however, that her own Biology is a powerful force to be reckoned with.

More than anything, 8-year-old Zelma wants love. Only love will make her complete, the Mythology Sirens insist. But love is elusive when you are an outcast at school and a loner at home. Guided by the Mythology Siren's hypnotic songs, Zelma tries to change herself into the kind of girl that boys like – cute, weak, demure.

But there are consequences, counters Biology. Zelma has DNA, millions of neural pathways, and a vast array of chemical reactions inside her brain that make up her personality. Zelma has no choice but to be a battleground of conflicts between the Mythology Sirens and Biology as she struggles to find her own ground.

Coming of age brings blood and creepy compliments. Her early sexual encounters confound her, and, tragically, her best friend Darya dies in childbirth. Zelma is comforted by marriage to Sergei, but it soon veers into domestic abuse. A second, gender-bending marriage to Bo, though brief, deepens her understanding of herself and her place in the world.

Voice cast

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Development

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Writing

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Baumane began the script in 2015. She set out to write about her second marriage to a self-described gender-bending man from Sweden, but soon expanded the story to explore what made them want to get married in the first place. From there, a story of a young woman's search for love, purpose and meaning emerged. Baumane asked herself where do young women get the idea that they have to marry to be a complete person and have a worthy life? Where does it start? Also, what is love? What's the basis of it? What happens neurologically when people fall in and out of love?

Over the next year Baumane researched the biology of love and consulted periodically with NYU professor Pascal Wallisch, PhD for scientific accuracy. She wrote 24 drafts of the script weaving into her story the ways body chemistry dictates many of the decisions humans make and the feelings they feel. For this she created a neuron-like character, Biology. She also researched the anthropology and culture of love and created three singing, shape-shifting characters, the Mythology Sirens, who try to influence Zelma through pop songs. Composer Kristian Sensini wrote the music to Baumane's lyrics.[12][13][14][15][16]

Casting and recording

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Baumane and casting director Sturgis Warner looked to cast actors with extensive theater credits and excellent language skills. They signed a Theatrical Contract with SAG-AFTRA and began making offers. Dagmara Dominczyk[1] played Zelma from ages 7 to 29 and narrated the film from an older age. Michele Pawk voiced the second narrator, Biology. The Latvian singing group Trio Limonāde recorded the Mythology Sirens both in English and Latvian (for the Latvian language version). Matthew Modine[2] came on board to voice Bo, Zelma's second husband, and with him brought three actors from Shameless: Cameron Monaghan to voice Sergei, Zelma's first husband, Emma Kenney and Ruby Modine.[10]

in 2017, Baumane and Warner recorded 29 actors and singers[17] in New York City, Los Angeles and Riga, Latvia. Arjun G. Sheth, the New York Recording engineer, edited the recordings into a working vocal track.[18]

In 2021, Storm Large recorded Lion / My Love Affair with Marriage, the end-credit song with music by Sensini and lyrics by Baumane.

Production

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In Brooklyn, the production process began with the construction of background sets, approximately 65 of them for the 145 scenes in the film. Warner built each set out of wood creating 3-D environments into which Baumane animated her 2-D characters. When finished, he would pass the set on to the art department where the team would cover it with papier-mâché, paint an undercoat of black, then four more coats, darkest colors to lightest, to create textured looks on the surfaces of the set.

Warner, also lighting designer, then lit the set and Baumane, the Cinematographer, photographed it using an array of stop-motion techniques to create zooms, pans and other camera movements. Once a set was photographed, Baumane imported the shots into Premiere Pro to see how the images fit with the vocal track. She would print out the chosen images and using a light box to precisely line up fresh pieces of paper, she would animate 2-D characters, pencil on paper, into the photographed scene. The team scanned the drawings, organized them, and sent them to the Latvian team working at Studio Locomotive in Riga led by Producer Roberts Vinovskis. The Latvian team colored the drawings in Photoshop and composited the characters into the photographs using After Effects. Finally, they would create QuickTime movies to send back to Brooklyn for editing.[13][19][20]

Animation

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Baumane animated all the characters in My Love Affair with Marriage with the exception of Biology. She worked in the traditional animation style, pencil on paper, using 662 pencils in all. Baumane explained, "I like animating on paper because the pencil becomes an extension of my hand, and the impulse goes from my gut into my heart, through my shoulder into my fingertips and when I draw the line, I become one with the line, I become one with the pencil and that is an expression of what I feel and who I am. And so, pencil and paper inspire me the way that no software, no computer program can inspire me."[20]

Yajun Shi animated the Biology sections, thirteen minutes altogether. Baumane wanted a different animator for those sections, but one with a style that would complement her own.[13] Shi animated on a tablet directly in Photoshop and moved back and forth between Photoshop and After Effects to create her unique style.[20]

My Love Affair with Marriage has four different styles of animation representing four distinct worlds.[14]

  • The world in which Zelma's life unfolds is represented by practical 3-D sets, photographed in stop motion with 2-D animated characters on top, with sketched-in shadows.
  • The world of Zelma's imagination is depicted by flat drawings and flat, colorful backgrounds. This world helps Zelma process the events around her.
  • The world of Biology, omnipresent and powerful, not visible to the naked human eye.
  • The political world, the Maps, are animated in an app called OpenStreetMap. It shows the arc of Zelma's understanding of the world and how it is relates to her inner experiences."[14]

Post-production

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Baumane and Warner edited the final picture. Post-production sound was created at Philophon Studios in Luxembourg, produced by Raoul Nadalet of Antevita Films and financed by FilmFund Luxembourg.

  • Christophe Burdet was the foley artist, the creator of sound effects. As animation, My Love Affair with Marriage had no incidental sounds other than vocal track of the actors. Burdet had to created them from scratch.
  • Pierre Vedovato, the sound designer, also created different aural atmospheric environments for the film's 145 scenes and arranged them with the Foleys, the actors' voices, the songs, and musical scoring.
  • Loïc Collignon, the re-recording mixer, took over 1,000 tracks of sound and orchestrated them into a 7.1 surround sound mix, the current standard for cinema viewing.[15][21]

In Riga, the team at Studio Locomotive executed final mastering and color correction, and prepared all the deliverables – the various formats a feature film needs for widespread distribution.

Financing

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My Love Affair with Marriage is an independent production funded over a six-year period by 1,685 individual backers and grants from a variety of institutions and foundations.

Release

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New Europe Film Sales is the international sales agent for the film.[29]

My Love Affair with Marriage had three premieres over a five-day period: the World Premiere at Tribeca Festival in New York City on June 11, 2022,[3] the European Premiere at Annecy International Animation Film Festival[30] in France June 15, 2022, and the Latin American Premiere at Guadalajara International Film Festival[31] in Mexico June 15, 2022. It has gone on to screen at over 90 other international film festivals winning multiple awards along the way.

Reception

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  • "Latvian filmmaker Signe Baumane quietly delivered one of the best female resistance films of the year — and it's animated. It's a wonderful surprise in a movie already filled to the brim with them. It's a sprawling story that follows the life of Zelma (voiced by Dagmara Domińczyk), a girl who is destined to walk down the much-tread path of her ancestors to be married to a man and taken care of. But the more she grows up and experiences new things, including bullies at school and terrible boyfriends, the more she realizes that what's destined for her may not be for her. Her body even resists the thought of such conformity. My Love Affair With Marriage is an exuberant and complex movie about the journey to female rebellion."[37] — Candice Frederick, HuffPost
  • "Funny, moving, and visually stunning throughout, it's easily one of the most distinct animated films I've seen in quite a while and it serves as a needed reminder that animation is an art form that can be used for more than family-oriented narratives."[38] – Peter Sobczynski, RogerEbert.com
  • "A joyfully exuberant piece of work that manages to conduct some serious examination of human behavior whilst always being nothing less than gloriously entertaining. Many of its themes of gender, identity and conformity also seem incredibly timely."[39] – Laurence Boyce, Cineuropa
  • "This film is something special. It's unafraid to reveal our innermost thoughts, fears, hopes, regrets, mistakes, and dreams. It celebrates unfiltered authenticity with clever writing and delightful visuals. It's an outstanding feminist film that will undoubtedly win over audiences everywhere."[40] – Liz Whittemore, ReelNewsDaily
  • "For those who have more contained ideas about animated films, My Love Affair with Marriage will doubtless make them think twice about the medium's endless possibilities. This is a deeply funny, socially conscious sharp satire with heart."[41] – Josh Batchelder, Josh at the Movies
  • "Right from the start, Signe Baumane's animation proves it has earned a place in the hallowed halls of raw storytelling. Rough, storybook-sketched 2D characters are layered on top of highly texturized stop-motion backgrounds, detailing every paint stroke, scrape, sometimes even mold spore. And the imagery is just the start."[12] – Victoria Davis, Animation World Network

Accolades

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Recipient Result Ref.
Tribeca Festival, New York City June 16, 2022 International Feature Competition My Love Affair with Marriage Nominated [42]
Annecy International Animation Film Festival, France June 18, 2022 Feature Films in Competition My Love Affair with Marriage Jury Distinction for a Feature Film [43]
FICG – Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexico June 18, 2022 Best International Animation Feature My Love Affair with Marriage Honorable Mention [44]
FEFFS Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival, France October 1, 2022 Independent Animated Films Competition My Love Affair with Marriage Nominated [45]
Woodstock Film Festival, New York October 1, 2022 Feature Narrative Signe Baumane Excellence in Narrative Directing [46]
Viborg Animation Festival, Denmark October 2, 2022 VAF Best Feature Film 2022 My Love Affair with Marriage Winner [47]
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Turkey October 8, 2022 International Feature Film Competition My Love Affair with Marriage Nominated [48]
Anim'est International Animation Film Festival, Romania October 14, 2022 Best Feature Film My Love Affair with Marriage Special Mention for a Feature film [49]
Riga International Film Festival, Latvia October 22, 2022 Feature Film Competition My Love Affair with Marriage Special Mention [50]
Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Norway October 23, 2022 Nordic-Baltic Competition – Feature Films My Love Affair with Marriage Best Feature Film [51]
BIAF Bucheon International Animation Film Festival, South Korea October 25, 2022 International Competition – Feature Film My Love Affair with Marriage Special Distinction Prize [52]
Raindance Film Festival, London, UK November 4, 2022 Best International Feature My Love Affair with Marriage Nominated [53]
Raindance Film Festival, London, UK November 4, 2022 Best Screenplay Signe Baumane Nominated [53]
New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Japan November 6, 2022 Official Selection for Feature Films My Love Affair with Marriage Grand Prix for the Feature Films [54]
Sevilla International Film Festival, Spain November 12, 2022 Official Selection My Love Affair with Marriage Nominated [55]
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia November 27, 2022 Baltic Film Competition My Love Affair with Marriage Nominated [56]
European Film Awards, Iceland December 10, 2022 European Animation Feature Film My Love Affair with Marriage Nominated [57]
Latvian National Film Awards, Lielais Kristaps February 26, 2023 Animated Films Competition My Love Affair with Marriage Best Animation Film [58]
Latvian National Film Awards, Lielais Kristaps February 26, 2023 Animated Films Competition Signe Baumane Best Director of an Animated Film [58]
Latvian National Film Awards, Lielais Kristaps February 26, 2023 Animated Films Competition Signe Baumane Best Production Design of an Animated Film [58]
Aswan International Women Film Festival, Egypt March 10, 2023 Feature Film Competition Signe Baumane Best Screenplay [59]
Aswan International Women Film Festival, Egypt March 10, 2023 Feature Film Competition My Love Affair With Marriage Egyptian Film Critics Association Award [60]
Tokyo Anime Award Festival March 13, 2023 Feature Film Competition My Love Affair With Marriage Nominated [61]
Créteil International Women's Film Festival France March 27, 2023 Fiction Competition My Love Affair With Marriage Nominated [62]
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Films, Germany April 26, 2023 Honorary Trickstar Award Signe Baumane Honorary Trickstar Award [63]
Anifilm, International Festival of Animated Films, Czechia May 7, 2023 International Competition of Feature Films My Love Affair With Marriage Best Feature Film for Grown-Ups [64]
Animafest Zagreb, Croatia June 10, 2023 Grand Competition for Feature Films My Love Affair With Marriage Grand Prix for Animated Feature [65]
Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto, Canada July 30, 2023 Best Feature Film Competition My Love Affair With Marriage Best Film [66]

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