The Method of Love (2014)

On the surface, Chris Nduka is the picture-perfect man: charming, attractive and a very successful businessman. Women are enamoured and intrigued by him. However with his obsessive desires and preference for sex over love, committing to just one woman is as remote to him as taking a sabbatical to Tibet to be the Dalai Lama's understudy. In direct contrast, his newly wed brother Niko's enthusiastic show of love and romance, is at best nauseating and borderline uncomfortable to witness. He gushes over his wife April, in a fashion that suggests he is the first man on earth to experience such euphoria. But behind each brother's expression of love and affection, lies their troubled and dark childhood, that has rendered one brother obsessively in love with the idea of love, and the other incapable of showing love or forming a healthy relationship. Using London's buzzing streets as a backdrop, we witness the hazardous journey of self-discovery in the quest to find true love, through the lives of the show's central characters: The ambitious and confident Chloe, in a long-term relationship with successful video producer Anthony, struggles with recently developed feelings for another man which are both alarming and worrying, as they raise questions about her future with Anthony. Frankie, the overly confident, witty ladies' man and Chris' best friend, wears the exterior of a sexist egotistical male, who is happy to brag about female conquests. Beneath, however, he hides a deeper secret of insecurity and desperation for acceptance, that threatens not only to offer him a lifetime of misery but could be to the detriment of his friendship with Chris. Finally, we have the mysterious Charlotte, a widow who is still deeply grieving over the death of her husband, 2 years ago. She is struggling to find someone to live up to the impossible image her grief has created of her lost love, whilst in the meantime relying on less than perfect means to cope with each day. The Method of Love is a clever critique of the human condition, allowing us to navigate through the characters' innermost fears, passions and revelations, as each element of their lives continually forces them to question the very essence of love.