Des Walsh has paired up with director John Smith several times before. In 2002, they did a remarkable job of adapting Bernice Morgan’s bestselling Random Passage into a CBC Miniseries. They’re back, and this time, they’ve adapted a book of poetry. That packs allure in its rarity alone.

The National Post has a great interview with them both. Click here

Love and Savagery is Walsh’s third book of poetry. According to his publisher’s website, “The unnamed Irish woman of this collection, the complicated jewel of the Burin Peninsula, leads the narrator through the streets of St. John’s and the seemingly impenetrable evergreen thickets of Ireland on a spiritual odyssey of love and savagery.”

Producer, Morag Loves Company, call it “a story of passion, fate, and the consequences of the two.”

It has or will be screened at the Montreal World Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, the St. John’s International Women’s Film and Video Festival, and the Rhode Island International Film Festival. It is now playing in theatres.

“You simply must see Love and Savagery. I don’t often insist like this, but the latest film from Montreal director John N. Smith, one of our country’s finer filmmakers, is a remarkably powerful piece.”
- The Montreal Gazette