Cate Le Bon by Shady Lane Productions
“’Typical Love’ was a product of a rare jam session with dearest genius friend, Stella Mozgawa,” Cate Le Bon reveals.
The standalone single Typical Love is following Cate Le Bon’s 2022 album Pompeii.
The accompanying video comes from Le Bon’s regular collaborator Phil Collins, as well as co-director Stefan Ramírez Pérez.
“Cate has always embodied a timeless mystique which distinctively conjures up the European silver screen,” Collins says.
“If Pompeii sounded like Antonioni at his most heartfelt and lyrical, then ‘Typical Love’, with its elegantly cinematic scope and crystalline propulsion, gestures towards the twisted melodramas of Henri-Georges Clouzot, Georges Franju, as well as the off-kilter glamour of Ilona Baltrush or early Ulrike Ottinger.”
“And so, an important point of departure was working with the physicality and alchemy of 16mm, especially the unguarded moments at which the delicate tension between performer and character is acutely palpable.”
