Thanks!

Thank you so much for sharing this. I was a huge Hal Hartley fan back in the day (I wish more people would remember him when talking about 90s cinema!) and it was a dream come true when he worked with Polly. This is such a lovely, thoughtful insight into their process of working together. It’s been a while since I watched The Book of Life, so I’m going to dig it out tonight!

Here's the trailer for Hal Hartley's film "Amateur" that uses Water and started the chain of events that led to Polly being in Book of Life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLhu37ozFx8

It's an everyday kind of boy meets girl story:
"Isabelle is an ex-nun waiting for her special mission from God. In the meantime, she is making a living writing pornography. She meets Thomas, a sweet, confused amnesiac who cannot remember that he used to be a vicious pornographer, ..."