Denis Lavant, the iconic French actor of Claire Denis’ “Beau Travail” and Leos Carax’ “Holy Motors,” stars in “Redoubt,” the feature debut of rising contemporary artist-turned-director John Skoog.
Currently in post, the black-and-white film is produced by Plattform Produktion, the Goteborg-based banner run by two-time Palme d’Or winning director Ruben Ostlund (“Triangle of Sadness”) and Erik Hemmendorff. Skoog previously directed the California-set documentary short “Shadowland” which completed for a Golden Bear at the Berlinale.
“Redoubt” (“Reduit”) is a narrative film that expands on Skoog’s video installation by the same name which won the prestigious Baloise Art Prize in 2014, and is also part of the artist’s exhibition “Walls.”
Lavant’s reclusive character in “Redoubt” is inspired by Karl-Göran Persson, a farmer known as a good samaritan on the verge of madness, who lived near Skoog’s home town Kvidinge during WWII. After receiving a warning by the Swedish...
Currently in post, the black-and-white film is produced by Plattform Produktion, the Goteborg-based banner run by two-time Palme d’Or winning director Ruben Ostlund (“Triangle of Sadness”) and Erik Hemmendorff. Skoog previously directed the California-set documentary short “Shadowland” which completed for a Golden Bear at the Berlinale.
“Redoubt” (“Reduit”) is a narrative film that expands on Skoog’s video installation by the same name which won the prestigious Baloise Art Prize in 2014, and is also part of the artist’s exhibition “Walls.”
Lavant’s reclusive character in “Redoubt” is inspired by Karl-Göran Persson, a farmer known as a good samaritan on the verge of madness, who lived near Skoog’s home town Kvidinge during WWII. After receiving a warning by the Swedish...
- 2/4/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
For its 50th edition unspooling Aug. 20-26, Norway’s top film event, the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, will be treating its 400-plus international guests and local audiences with a beefed-up onsite program of 72 feature length films and 19 shorts.
“We’ve had more films to choose from than ever before, “says festival honcho Tonje Hardersen about her non-competitive program, put together in close collaboration with local distributors and exhibitors. “We can still see the post-covid effects on distribution as many titles were delayed. We have therefore slightly older films – from 2020 up to 2022 – which is unusual. But this makes for an exceptional program, hopefully for all tastes,” she adds.
World premieres take in the blockbuster Norwegian opener ‘War Sailor’ by Gunnar Vikene starring Kristoffer Joner (‘The Revenant’), Pål Sverre Hagen (‘Kon-Tiki’), and Ine Marie Wilmann (‘Homesick’), about Norwegian war sailors’ heroic efforts during WWII. Prolific outfit Mer Film (‘The Innocents’) is producing,...
“We’ve had more films to choose from than ever before, “says festival honcho Tonje Hardersen about her non-competitive program, put together in close collaboration with local distributors and exhibitors. “We can still see the post-covid effects on distribution as many titles were delayed. We have therefore slightly older films – from 2020 up to 2022 – which is unusual. But this makes for an exceptional program, hopefully for all tastes,” she adds.
World premieres take in the blockbuster Norwegian opener ‘War Sailor’ by Gunnar Vikene starring Kristoffer Joner (‘The Revenant’), Pål Sverre Hagen (‘Kon-Tiki’), and Ine Marie Wilmann (‘Homesick’), about Norwegian war sailors’ heroic efforts during WWII. Prolific outfit Mer Film (‘The Innocents’) is producing,...
- 8/5/2022
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Festival
Seven of the nine features selected for the Korean competition at the Jeonju International Film Festival (Apr. 28-May 7) are directed by women. The selected films are “Mother And Daughter” by Kim Jung-eun; “When I Sleep” (Choi Jungmoon); “The Hill of Secrets” (Lee Ji-eun); “Archaeology of Love” (Lee Wanmin); “Missing Yoon” (Kim Jinhwa); “Saving a Dragonfly” (Hong Daye); “Jeong-sun” (Jeong Ji-hye); “Drown” (Lim Sangsu); and “Havana” (Hong Yongho).
Programmer Moon Seok said: “This year’s submissions were diverse in subject matter, and there were many new attempts in genres. Seven of the nine selected works are by female directors, and they continue to be strong players in the industry. I hope this trend will continue, and to have female directors make strides in the commercial film industry too.”
Meanwhile, the festival, which is led by director Lee Joondong, is planning an in-person event under strict Covid-19 regulations and will hold...
Seven of the nine features selected for the Korean competition at the Jeonju International Film Festival (Apr. 28-May 7) are directed by women. The selected films are “Mother And Daughter” by Kim Jung-eun; “When I Sleep” (Choi Jungmoon); “The Hill of Secrets” (Lee Ji-eun); “Archaeology of Love” (Lee Wanmin); “Missing Yoon” (Kim Jinhwa); “Saving a Dragonfly” (Hong Daye); “Jeong-sun” (Jeong Ji-hye); “Drown” (Lim Sangsu); and “Havana” (Hong Yongho).
Programmer Moon Seok said: “This year’s submissions were diverse in subject matter, and there were many new attempts in genres. Seven of the nine selected works are by female directors, and they continue to be strong players in the industry. I hope this trend will continue, and to have female directors make strides in the commercial film industry too.”
Meanwhile, the festival, which is led by director Lee Joondong, is planning an in-person event under strict Covid-19 regulations and will hold...
- 4/1/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Mtg’s off-beat Nordic series set in the world of adult movies premiered at Miptv.
UK-based worldwide content distributor Drg has taken on sales of Nordic thriller Veni Vidi Vici, about a washed-up arthouse film director who gets caught up in the world of porn.
It is the latest Nordic series with international ambitions from Swedish production and distribution outfit Mtg Studios.
Both companies are owned by burgeoning digital entertainment company Modern Times Group (Mtg), but Mtg Studios does not automatically distribute its productions through Drg.
Its recent comedy series Swedish Dicks - co-starring Keanu Reeves and Peter Stormare - is being sold internationally by Lionsgate, for example.
In the 10-part series Veni Vidi Vici, Danish actor Thomas Bo Larsen stars as pretentious film director Karsten Daugaard who agrees to direct a porn movie after his latest arthouse romance flops at the box office.
The decision introduces Karsten to the murky world of adult entertainment and will...
UK-based worldwide content distributor Drg has taken on sales of Nordic thriller Veni Vidi Vici, about a washed-up arthouse film director who gets caught up in the world of porn.
It is the latest Nordic series with international ambitions from Swedish production and distribution outfit Mtg Studios.
Both companies are owned by burgeoning digital entertainment company Modern Times Group (Mtg), but Mtg Studios does not automatically distribute its productions through Drg.
Its recent comedy series Swedish Dicks - co-starring Keanu Reeves and Peter Stormare - is being sold internationally by Lionsgate, for example.
In the 10-part series Veni Vidi Vici, Danish actor Thomas Bo Larsen stars as pretentious film director Karsten Daugaard who agrees to direct a porn movie after his latest arthouse romance flops at the box office.
The decision introduces Karsten to the murky world of adult entertainment and will...
- 4/3/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Keanu Reeves has been approached to star in Antti J. Jokinen’s thriller The Criminal about organised crime in Finland and Russia.
Pitching the project at the first edition of the Northern Seas Film Forum (Nsff) in St Petersburg at the weekend, producer Markus Selin of Solar Films Inc. Oy and director Jokinen said that they are speaking to the Matrix star about headlining the crime thriller which is set to shoot next year.
The Criminal is based on interviews conducted with Russian and Finnish felons over the past four years and has the Organised Crime Unit of the Finnish Police now serving as an advisor on the screenplay.
Selin revealed that Ireland’s Subotica Films is already onboard as a co-producer and he is now looking for a Russian company to join the production.
The $16m (€12m) production would shoot in Helsinki, Dublin and St Petersburg in Russian and Finnish with the English actors speaking...
Pitching the project at the first edition of the Northern Seas Film Forum (Nsff) in St Petersburg at the weekend, producer Markus Selin of Solar Films Inc. Oy and director Jokinen said that they are speaking to the Matrix star about headlining the crime thriller which is set to shoot next year.
The Criminal is based on interviews conducted with Russian and Finnish felons over the past four years and has the Organised Crime Unit of the Finnish Police now serving as an advisor on the screenplay.
Selin revealed that Ireland’s Subotica Films is already onboard as a co-producer and he is now looking for a Russian company to join the production.
The $16m (€12m) production would shoot in Helsinki, Dublin and St Petersburg in Russian and Finnish with the English actors speaking...
- 9/16/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Sonet Film
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Skillfully blending powerful emotionalism and hilarious dark comedy, this Swedish film from the husband-and-wife team of director Daniel Lind Lagerlof and writer Malin Lind Lagerlof represents one of the most original and audacious love stories in years. The tale of the unlikely love affair between a repressed young minister and a rambunctiously vulgar and beautiful paraplegic, "Miffo" is utterly distinctive and memorable.
A huge hit in its native country, the film faces the usual commercial hurdles for Scandinavian fare here, but an American remake -- starring, say Matt Damon and Cameron Diaz -- looms as a promising possibility. The film received its U.S. premiere at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
The film's central character is 29-year-old Tobias (Jonas Karlsson), who is frustrated working in his big-city parish and yearns to provide spiritual comfort to the downtrodden. To that end, he moves to a depressed area, where the elderly priest has settled into a lethargic routine, jealously eyeing the packed mosque located in a bowling alley down the street. Literally going door to door to meet his new parishioners, Tobias encounters a variety of unsavory situations, including a sex-starved woman who promptly dons a nun outfit. But he's completely smitten when he meets the gorgeous but decidedly off-kilter Carola (Livia Millhagen), who lives with her alcoholic mother and who promptly hits Tobias up for a loan.
Although paralyzed from the waist down, Carola is clearly a highly sexual creature, and it isn't long after their first date (a sequence filled with hilarious slapstick comedy) that the pair hit the sheets, in a scene both tender and erotic that ultimately turns amusing when they are interrupted by Tobias' flabbergasted parents.
Eventually, Tobias is unable to deal with Carola's volatility and strikes up a lackluster romance with the pretty but dull girl who's worshipped him for years, culminating in an episode at their wedding representing the ultimate in embarrassing faux pas.
At this point, the picture takes a melodramatic turn that is less convincing than its comic parts, but the smart screenplay, filled with memorable sequences, manages to provide a terrific conclusion that is every bit as funny as it is moving.
Daniel Lind Lagerlof's unobtrusive but assured directing style mines every comedic and dramatic element from the material, and he has elicited superb performances all around. Karlsson is terrific as the emotionally beleaguered priest, using a deadpan approach that makes the lunacy surrounding his character all the more amusing, and screen newcomer Millhagen is superb as the outlandish Carola, effortlessly combining sultriness, poignancy and an assured comic style.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Skillfully blending powerful emotionalism and hilarious dark comedy, this Swedish film from the husband-and-wife team of director Daniel Lind Lagerlof and writer Malin Lind Lagerlof represents one of the most original and audacious love stories in years. The tale of the unlikely love affair between a repressed young minister and a rambunctiously vulgar and beautiful paraplegic, "Miffo" is utterly distinctive and memorable.
A huge hit in its native country, the film faces the usual commercial hurdles for Scandinavian fare here, but an American remake -- starring, say Matt Damon and Cameron Diaz -- looms as a promising possibility. The film received its U.S. premiere at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
The film's central character is 29-year-old Tobias (Jonas Karlsson), who is frustrated working in his big-city parish and yearns to provide spiritual comfort to the downtrodden. To that end, he moves to a depressed area, where the elderly priest has settled into a lethargic routine, jealously eyeing the packed mosque located in a bowling alley down the street. Literally going door to door to meet his new parishioners, Tobias encounters a variety of unsavory situations, including a sex-starved woman who promptly dons a nun outfit. But he's completely smitten when he meets the gorgeous but decidedly off-kilter Carola (Livia Millhagen), who lives with her alcoholic mother and who promptly hits Tobias up for a loan.
Although paralyzed from the waist down, Carola is clearly a highly sexual creature, and it isn't long after their first date (a sequence filled with hilarious slapstick comedy) that the pair hit the sheets, in a scene both tender and erotic that ultimately turns amusing when they are interrupted by Tobias' flabbergasted parents.
Eventually, Tobias is unable to deal with Carola's volatility and strikes up a lackluster romance with the pretty but dull girl who's worshipped him for years, culminating in an episode at their wedding representing the ultimate in embarrassing faux pas.
At this point, the picture takes a melodramatic turn that is less convincing than its comic parts, but the smart screenplay, filled with memorable sequences, manages to provide a terrific conclusion that is every bit as funny as it is moving.
Daniel Lind Lagerlof's unobtrusive but assured directing style mines every comedic and dramatic element from the material, and he has elicited superb performances all around. Karlsson is terrific as the emotionally beleaguered priest, using a deadpan approach that makes the lunacy surrounding his character all the more amusing, and screen newcomer Millhagen is superb as the outlandish Carola, effortlessly combining sultriness, poignancy and an assured comic style.
Sonet Film
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Skillfully blending powerful emotionalism and hilarious dark comedy, this Swedish film from the husband-and-wife team of director Daniel Lind Lagerlof and writer Malin Lind Lagerlof represents one of the most original and audacious love stories in years. The tale of the unlikely love affair between a repressed young minister and a rambunctiously vulgar and beautiful paraplegic, "Miffo" is utterly distinctive and memorable.
A huge hit in its native country, the film faces the usual commercial hurdles for Scandinavian fare here, but an American remake -- starring, say Matt Damon and Cameron Diaz -- looms as a promising possibility. The film received its U.S. premiere at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
The film's central character is 29-year-old Tobias (Jonas Karlsson), who is frustrated working in his big-city parish and yearns to provide spiritual comfort to the downtrodden. To that end, he moves to a depressed area, where the elderly priest has settled into a lethargic routine, jealously eyeing the packed mosque located in a bowling alley down the street. Literally going door to door to meet his new parishioners, Tobias encounters a variety of unsavory situations, including a sex-starved woman who promptly dons a nun outfit. But he's completely smitten when he meets the gorgeous but decidedly off-kilter Carola (Livia Millhagen), who lives with her alcoholic mother and who promptly hits Tobias up for a loan.
Although paralyzed from the waist down, Carola is clearly a highly sexual creature, and it isn't long after their first date (a sequence filled with hilarious slapstick comedy) that the pair hit the sheets, in a scene both tender and erotic that ultimately turns amusing when they are interrupted by Tobias' flabbergasted parents.
Eventually, Tobias is unable to deal with Carola's volatility and strikes up a lackluster romance with the pretty but dull girl who's worshipped him for years, culminating in an episode at their wedding representing the ultimate in embarrassing faux pas.
At this point, the picture takes a melodramatic turn that is less convincing than its comic parts, but the smart screenplay, filled with memorable sequences, manages to provide a terrific conclusion that is every bit as funny as it is moving.
Daniel Lind Lagerlof's unobtrusive but assured directing style mines every comedic and dramatic element from the material, and he has elicited superb performances all around. Karlsson is terrific as the emotionally beleaguered priest, using a deadpan approach that makes the lunacy surrounding his character all the more amusing, and screen newcomer Millhagen is superb as the outlandish Carola, effortlessly combining sultriness, poignancy and an assured comic style.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Skillfully blending powerful emotionalism and hilarious dark comedy, this Swedish film from the husband-and-wife team of director Daniel Lind Lagerlof and writer Malin Lind Lagerlof represents one of the most original and audacious love stories in years. The tale of the unlikely love affair between a repressed young minister and a rambunctiously vulgar and beautiful paraplegic, "Miffo" is utterly distinctive and memorable.
A huge hit in its native country, the film faces the usual commercial hurdles for Scandinavian fare here, but an American remake -- starring, say Matt Damon and Cameron Diaz -- looms as a promising possibility. The film received its U.S. premiere at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
The film's central character is 29-year-old Tobias (Jonas Karlsson), who is frustrated working in his big-city parish and yearns to provide spiritual comfort to the downtrodden. To that end, he moves to a depressed area, where the elderly priest has settled into a lethargic routine, jealously eyeing the packed mosque located in a bowling alley down the street. Literally going door to door to meet his new parishioners, Tobias encounters a variety of unsavory situations, including a sex-starved woman who promptly dons a nun outfit. But he's completely smitten when he meets the gorgeous but decidedly off-kilter Carola (Livia Millhagen), who lives with her alcoholic mother and who promptly hits Tobias up for a loan.
Although paralyzed from the waist down, Carola is clearly a highly sexual creature, and it isn't long after their first date (a sequence filled with hilarious slapstick comedy) that the pair hit the sheets, in a scene both tender and erotic that ultimately turns amusing when they are interrupted by Tobias' flabbergasted parents.
Eventually, Tobias is unable to deal with Carola's volatility and strikes up a lackluster romance with the pretty but dull girl who's worshipped him for years, culminating in an episode at their wedding representing the ultimate in embarrassing faux pas.
At this point, the picture takes a melodramatic turn that is less convincing than its comic parts, but the smart screenplay, filled with memorable sequences, manages to provide a terrific conclusion that is every bit as funny as it is moving.
Daniel Lind Lagerlof's unobtrusive but assured directing style mines every comedic and dramatic element from the material, and he has elicited superb performances all around. Karlsson is terrific as the emotionally beleaguered priest, using a deadpan approach that makes the lunacy surrounding his character all the more amusing, and screen newcomer Millhagen is superb as the outlandish Carola, effortlessly combining sultriness, poignancy and an assured comic style.
- 12/10/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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