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But now, drinks and celebration at the after-party; tomorrow the reality check of reviews would kick in.
*****
Critics’ reviews –Between Night and Day
Edgar Linton has done it again – a masterpiece. Sterling performances by leads Travis Taylor and Holly Bale and a supporting cast second to none. I pitched from light to dark and back again, wishing it would never finish.Neil Chatters, Entertainment Tonight.
Edgar Linton can get his mantle ready for the top award; magnificent. ‘Between Night and Day’ is the film of the year.Des Jones, The Courier.
Disturbing, oppressive and brilliant. Watch out for Catherine Earnshaw with a performance so vivid that she made a world that is hard to understand at the best of times, make perfect sense.Sarah Palat, E-News Now!
‘Between Night and Day’ is compelling … a painful journey that has to be seen to understand the underbelly of life. Travis Taylor, Catherine Earnshaw and Kyle Hughes are faces to remember.James Ambrose-Clarke, The Guardian.
The film is dark and disturbing but all hail the ladies, Holly Bale and Catherine Earnshaw – shining lights.Jose Asay, Hits FM.
Dangerously close to being too much, but restrained and outstanding performances by Travis Taylor and Catherine Earnshaw save this film. Earnshaw is ready for that leading role.Ann Symonns, The Post.
Travis Taylor owns the lead role with piercing intensity. Director, Edgar Linton, has the gift of delivering stories off the screen and into the heart and mind. Notable mention to stage actress, Catherine Earnshaw, in her film debut. She played the addicted prostitute with great conviction. Young actor Kyle Hughes is on his way.Mindi Maron, Daily Mail.
Hands down the most compelling and powerful film I have seen this year. Mark my words – Travis Taylor for best actor, Edgar Linton for best director and two supporting cast members for best-supporting actors – Catherine Earnshaw and Kyle Hughes.P.J. Lane, FilmMatters.
I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen no matter how desperate it got at times. This is the blueprint for the genre.Robert Cominos, SilverScreen.
Edgar Linton delivers again. Travis Taylor and Holly Bale are painfully believable and Catherine Earnshaw is in no one’s shadow.Marc Ferguson, Entertainment Weekly.
Chapter 28 – Heath the tormentor
‘He’s a brute, I hate him.’ I heard the words and knew immediately who the speaker was –Isabella.
Edgar and I had gone home to Thrushcross Grange for the weekend after the film premiere. I used the term ‘home’ like it was my residence but I’d spent more time at Edgar’s mansion, Thrushcross Grange, in the time we had been together than I had spent at Wuthering Heights. I was going to drop into Wuthering Heights sometime over the weekend, but this afternoon, my soul needed to have a walk onmymoors. Heading up the long driveway on my return to Thrushcross Grange,I saw Isabella’s sporty little silver BMW parked out the front. Heath wouldn’t be with her because he was rehearsing. Lockwood told me earlier in the week that he too was working on set this weekend. So, she had come alone … it was as I predicted, she was in pain and the cause was Heath.
I should have walked away and tip-toed upstairs and had a shower but I had to listen. I warned her but she thought my words were just from bitterness. Ha, she’s learning fast now. I moved closer to make out what they were saying and glanced through the door frame to try and see them. Edgar was mixing himself a drink and Isabella had moved in front of the window. Bizarre that someone so beautiful with her pale skin, golden hair and green eyes, not to mention the model body, could be so insecure. Edgar returned to her side and passed her a drink.
‘Leave him,’ he said, with a sigh as though it was the easiest decision in the world. ‘Cathy told you he was hard work.’
Isabella scoffed.‘She had her motives.’
‘Really?’ Edgar asked, and whirled the ice in his glass. ‘What would those be? To keep Heath for herself?’
Isabella frowned and then softened. ‘I know you don’t want to think she still cares for him, brother, but this affects us both. Besides, if I leave him, he’s single again,’ she said as if it was a threat.
‘Why would Cathy go back to him? We’ve been together for over a year now, she could have played that card anytime,’ he snapped. ‘Or do you think she’d only be able to get him back if you were off the scene?’
‘I didn’t mean that,’ she said. ‘This isn’t about you or Cathy, okay?’
I saw Edgar shrug like he didn’t care. He obviously felt secure in my love. He had a healthy ego fuelled by a childhood of entitlement, and now success and accolades.
‘Cut to the chase, Izzy, what is the problem with him? Make it work or dump him.’
She laughed. ‘You make it sound so easy. I love him, Edgar. I love him and I want him but he gives so little back emotionally. I barely know how he feels about me except that he always makes love to me when we’re together, and he is so ardent … he does it as if he wants me – slow, attentive, passionate. It makes me think he does love me but he just can’t verbally express it.’
Ah, God that hurt.
Edgar winced at the detailed description as well. Isabella slumped against the window frame as if the words had taken too much energy to say.
‘Is he cheating on you?’ Edgar asked.
‘No. At least I don’t think so. He’s just caught up in his craft, as he calls it.’ She rolled her eyes and then moved away from the window and collapsed into a seat. ‘I feel like I’m dangling. He gives me just enough to love him and not leave him, but never enough to make me secure in that love. I can never get enough of anything when I’m with him.’ I saw her blink away tears. ‘Where’s Cathy?’ she asked, remembering me for the first time.
