Love and Other Catastrophes is the impressive début film by Emma-Kate Croghan, who is only 24. It is a warm, funny screwball comedy about love, fate and other urgent matters. The film follows five characters in a university environment. Mia and Alice have just moved into a new place and are looking for a third flatmate. Danni, Mia’s boyfriend, would like to move in with them, but Mia doesn’t want him too nearby. Mia is infatuated with a teacher and finds herself in a bureaucratic nightmare when she follows him to his new place of work. Alice, a frustrated perfectionist, has spent much too much time on her thesis about ‘Doris Day as feminist warrior’. She is looking for the perfect man, but can’t find anyone who can live up to her high standards. In her desperate need for change, she falls for the most unsuitable guy: Ari, a classical-languages student and part-time gigolo. However she doesn’t know that she has a secret admirer in the form of Michael, a shy medical student. Their quest for love transcends the university and their different disciplines. Omnia vincit amor…Kay Armatage (Toronto Catalogue): ‘Unlike the standard fare of the campus comedy genre, Love and Other Catastrophes is funny and smart, fast and sensitive, clever and referenced, young and pretty insane.’
