Love + Hate

Romeo and Juliet in blue collar England

Directed by Dominic Savage

Produced by UK Film Council, BBC Film

A contemporary, socially grounded retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in a racially divided northern England, where romantic love collides with systemic prejudice and family hatred.

This movie is a contemporary UK vision of an age old story as epitomised by Shakespeare, but with two at odds relationships adding a layer of complication. The situation, a volatile northern English town, typically Bradford, and characters, one Islamic Pakistani family and two prejudiced English families loosely representing the Capulets and the Montagues.