Trond Espen Seim stars as the title character in the Norwegian detective series “Varg Veum,” streaming on Topic. Courtesy of MHz Choice.
“Varg Veum” is the eponymous title of this Norwegian crime series. The star (Trond Espen Seim) is a former social worker turned private detective due to frustration with the failings of public service agencies. More accurately, he was fired for beating up a drug dealer who was pushing product to kids he was trying to protect. In classic genre style, Varg is a scruffy fellow with a marginal income trying to do some meaningful good for people and the community between times he has to tail cheating spouses to keep his business afloat. The Norwegian series aired from 2007 – 2012 and must have been popular in its homeland, since Seim returned as the same character in about a dozen movie incarnations filmed during and for several years after its run.
“Varg Veum” is the eponymous title of this Norwegian crime series. The star (Trond Espen Seim) is a former social worker turned private detective due to frustration with the failings of public service agencies. More accurately, he was fired for beating up a drug dealer who was pushing product to kids he was trying to protect. In classic genre style, Varg is a scruffy fellow with a marginal income trying to do some meaningful good for people and the community between times he has to tail cheating spouses to keep his business afloat. The Norwegian series aired from 2007 – 2012 and must have been popular in its homeland, since Seim returned as the same character in about a dozen movie incarnations filmed during and for several years after its run.
- 11/16/2023
- by Mark Glass
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Hélène Mouchet (Vicky Krieps) is probably dying. She has been diagnosed with an idiopathic fibrosis of the lungs, meaning none of her doctors really has much idea of how to treat her condition. They do know that it will eventually result in suffocation, unless she is able to undergo a lung transplant — which is far from certain to work. In “More Than Ever,” a thoughtful, well-acted drama from writer-director Emily Atef (changing the pace from her work on TV’s “Killing Eve”), this setup is the basis for an exploration, through the lens of one woman’s experience, of how serious disease might be faced, both medically and socially. Strand Releasing is bringing the film to U.S. audiences more than a year after its Un Certain Regard premiere in Cannes.
Hélène finds the awkward response of her social circle unendurable; people mean well, but are terrified of saying the wrong thing.
Hélène finds the awkward response of her social circle unendurable; people mean well, but are terrified of saying the wrong thing.
- 10/4/2023
- by Catherine Bray
- Variety Film + TV
The trailer for “Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything,” French-Iranian filmmaker Emily Atef’s tale of forbidden love, which premieres in Berlinale Competition, has debuted (below). The Match Factory is looking after the film’s international sales, and Pandora Film is handling German distribution.
The film, based on Daniela Krien’s novel, is set in the summer of 1990 in the countryside around Thuringia, in former East Germany.
Maria, who is about to turn 19, lives with her boyfriend Johannes on his parents’ farm and would rather lose herself in books than focus on graduating. There is a sense of a new era dawning with the reunification of Germany.
When she bumps into Henner, the farmer living next door, one touch is all it takes to ignite an all-consuming passion between Maria and the headstrong, charismatic man twice her age. In an atmosphere buzzing with possibilities, love is born: a secret passion...
The film, based on Daniela Krien’s novel, is set in the summer of 1990 in the countryside around Thuringia, in former East Germany.
Maria, who is about to turn 19, lives with her boyfriend Johannes on his parents’ farm and would rather lose herself in books than focus on graduating. There is a sense of a new era dawning with the reunification of Germany.
When she bumps into Henner, the farmer living next door, one touch is all it takes to ignite an all-consuming passion between Maria and the headstrong, charismatic man twice her age. In an atmosphere buzzing with possibilities, love is born: a secret passion...
- 2/10/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Krieps and the late Gaspard Ulliel bring great conviction and intelligence to this unlikely tale of a woman’s last adventure
Here is a painful, intimate, impeccably acted if not entirely plausible drama of terminal illness with an extra-textual layer of sadness and irony. The estimable Vicky Krieps plays Hélène, who is dying of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (a rare lung disease) and her partner is becoming her carer: this is Matthieu, played by Gaspard Ulliel – who died in a skiing accident shortly after this film was completed. Director Emily Atef dedicates the movie to him in the closing credits.
The agonising, debilitating nature of the disease takes its toll on the couple and their friends and family who have no way of talking about it or coming to terms with it. Hélène is also oppressed by the way she is supposed to be joyful and grateful at being on a...
Here is a painful, intimate, impeccably acted if not entirely plausible drama of terminal illness with an extra-textual layer of sadness and irony. The estimable Vicky Krieps plays Hélène, who is dying of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (a rare lung disease) and her partner is becoming her carer: this is Matthieu, played by Gaspard Ulliel – who died in a skiing accident shortly after this film was completed. Director Emily Atef dedicates the movie to him in the closing credits.
The agonising, debilitating nature of the disease takes its toll on the couple and their friends and family who have no way of talking about it or coming to terms with it. Hélène is also oppressed by the way she is supposed to be joyful and grateful at being on a...
- 1/18/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
"I want to make this trip. Even if you disagree." Modern Films in the UK has revealed an official UK trailer for a French indie drama titled More Than Ever, originally known as Plus Que Jamais in French. This heartfelt, honest film premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. It's about a woman with a terminal illness who decides to explore her own mortality and encroaching end of life by going to Norway to meet with another terminally ill man who lives peacefully in a house located in a beautiful fjord. Hélène and Mathieu have been happy together for many years. Their bond is deep. When faced with an existential decision, Hélène travels alone to Norway to seek peace and meet a blogger from the internet. Vicky Krieps co-stars with Bjørn Floberg, with Gaspard Ulliel as her partner. I caught this in Cannes and it's a good film,...
- 12/8/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Stars: Kristine Kujath Thorp, Rolf Kristian Larsen, Anders Baasmo, Bjørn Floberg, Anneke von der Lippe, Ane Skumsvoll, Cengiz Al, Nils Elias Olsen | Written by Harald Rosenløw-Eeg Lars Gudmestad | Directed by John Andreas Andersen
The Burning Sea is a Norwegian film with an interesting, albeit depressing conceit…
In 1969, the Norwegian government announces their discovery of one of the world’s largest oil fields in the neighbouring North Sea, launching a prosperous period of offshore drilling. Fifty years later, the environmental consequences begin to manifest – a crack has opened on the ocean floor, causing a rig to collapse. A team of researchers, including submarine operator Sofia (Kristine Kujath Thorp), rushes in to search for the missing and assess the cause of the damage. But what they discover is that this is just the start of a possible apocalyptic catastrophe. As rigs are evacuated, Sofia’s partner Stian (Henrik Bjelland) becomes trapped in the depths of the sea,...
The Burning Sea is a Norwegian film with an interesting, albeit depressing conceit…
In 1969, the Norwegian government announces their discovery of one of the world’s largest oil fields in the neighbouring North Sea, launching a prosperous period of offshore drilling. Fifty years later, the environmental consequences begin to manifest – a crack has opened on the ocean floor, causing a rig to collapse. A team of researchers, including submarine operator Sofia (Kristine Kujath Thorp), rushes in to search for the missing and assess the cause of the damage. But what they discover is that this is just the start of a possible apocalyptic catastrophe. As rigs are evacuated, Sofia’s partner Stian (Henrik Bjelland) becomes trapped in the depths of the sea,...
- 5/25/2022
- by Chris Thomas
- Nerdly
Magnet Releasing will release The Burning Sea in theaters and on demand February 25, 2022 Directed by John Andreas Andersen Written by Lars Gudmestad and Harald Rosenløw-Eeg Starring Kristine Kujath Thorp, Rolf Kristian Larsen, Anders Baasmo, Bjørn Floberg, and Anneke von der Lippe In 1969, the Norwegian government announces their discovery of one of the world’s largest oil …
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- 4/8/2022
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
In a film hinged on a killer ocean rift, the most outlandish portion of Norwegian disaster-movie-savant John Andreas Andersen’s “The Burning Sea” occurs when the people in authority — when presented with the scientific facts of the matter — make the right decision. In Norway, oil is truly liquid gold. Though the country, in reality, hopes to become a leader on climate change, the region stands as one of the world’s leaders in exporting that fossil fuel. For Andersen, the contradiction seems rife for big explosions and large devastation, for
The third film in a disaster trilogy that began with “The Wave” flowing seamlessly into “The Quake,” a fake documentary launches “The Burning Sea.” An older oil man, living in a cabin, wistfully recalls the country’s energy legacy: Footage from the 1980s of craned rigs, projectile plumes of oil, and birds covered in the noxious black liquid stitch a montage.
The third film in a disaster trilogy that began with “The Wave” flowing seamlessly into “The Quake,” a fake documentary launches “The Burning Sea.” An older oil man, living in a cabin, wistfully recalls the country’s energy legacy: Footage from the 1980s of craned rigs, projectile plumes of oil, and birds covered in the noxious black liquid stitch a montage.
- 2/25/2022
- by Robert Daniels
- Indiewire
In “The Burning Sea,” which is your basic, everyday Norwegian oil-rig disaster thriller, Stian (Henrik Bjelland), a rig worker stationed on a drilling platform that’s about to collapse, must descend into the bowels of the rig to shut down a well that can’t be reached remotely. As the soundtrack fills with one of those flatulent brass musical scores that sounds like it’s heralding the arrival of the devil, a bureaucratically ominous title splashes across the screen: “D Shaft, Gullfaks A, 138 meters under the sea.” 138 meters? That’s pretty far down, though not necessarily deep enough to be, you know, scary.
The disaster film started off as a “realistic” genre, one that gradually grew more over-the-top. In recent decades, though, directors like Roland Emmerich have accustomed us to the earthly-disaster-as-digital-ride. You could say it’s refreshing that “The Burning Sea,” the third in a series of not-so-over-the-top Norwegian disaster films,...
The disaster film started off as a “realistic” genre, one that gradually grew more over-the-top. In recent decades, though, directors like Roland Emmerich have accustomed us to the earthly-disaster-as-digital-ride. You could say it’s refreshing that “The Burning Sea,” the third in a series of not-so-over-the-top Norwegian disaster films,...
- 2/23/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
The Sf Studios production stars Trine Dyrholm.
REinvent International Sales has closed four new deals for historical epic biopic Margrete – Queen Of The North for the UK (Signature), France (Swift Productions), Italy (Koch Films) and Russia (Paradise Film Distribution Company).
This follows on previously announced deals for the US (Samuel Goldwyn) and Germany (Splendid Film). Charlotte Seiling directs the story of Margrete I (played by Trine Dyrholm), who gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a peace-oriented union. The story follows events in 1402, as a conspiracy threatens to ruin her.
The cast also features Søren Malling, Morten Hee Andersen, Jakob Oftebro,...
REinvent International Sales has closed four new deals for historical epic biopic Margrete – Queen Of The North for the UK (Signature), France (Swift Productions), Italy (Koch Films) and Russia (Paradise Film Distribution Company).
This follows on previously announced deals for the US (Samuel Goldwyn) and Germany (Splendid Film). Charlotte Seiling directs the story of Margrete I (played by Trine Dyrholm), who gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a peace-oriented union. The story follows events in 1402, as a conspiracy threatens to ruin her.
The cast also features Søren Malling, Morten Hee Andersen, Jakob Oftebro,...
- 2/10/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
"Someone is out to get us. They don't know what they're up against." Samuel Goldwyn Films has unveiled an official US trailer a Scandinavian historical epic thriller called Margrete - Queen of the North, made by Danish filmmaker Charlotte Sieling. This premiered at the Norwegian Film Festival, and already opened in Denmark, available on VOD in the US starting in December. Set in 1402. Queen Margrete is ruling Sweden, Norway and Denmark through her adopted son, Erik. The union is beset by enemies, however, and Margrete is therefore planning a marriage between Erik and an English princess. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life's work: the Kalmar Union. Starring Trine Dyrholm as Margrete, along with Søren Malling, Morten Hee Andersen, Bjørn Floberg, Magnus Krepper, Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Agnes Rase, Simon J. Berger, Linus James Nilsson, and Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir.
- 11/18/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
TrustNordisk has closed key deals on John Andreas Andersen’s anticipated Norwegian disaster film “The North Sea.”
Now in post-production, the ambitious movie is produced by Fantefilm Fiksjon, which previously delivered the Scandinavian blockbusters “The Quake” and “The Wave” that TrustNordisk sold around the world.
The film, the trailer for which has just been unveiled by TrustNordisk, opens on Christmas Eve in 1969 as the Norwegian government announces that the country is home to the world’s largest offshore oil platform following the discovery of the Ekofisk field. The finding marks a turning point in the history of Norway and kicks off an unprecedented financial adventure. The thriller explores the consequences of 50 years of offshore drilling by the Norwegian government.
TrustNordisk has sold the film to Canada (Mongrel Media), Japan (Inter Film), South Korea (AtNine), Taiwan (Moviecloud), Hong Kong (Sundream Motion Pictures), Poland (Hagi Film), Former Yugoslavia (Cinemania), Czech Republic and...
Now in post-production, the ambitious movie is produced by Fantefilm Fiksjon, which previously delivered the Scandinavian blockbusters “The Quake” and “The Wave” that TrustNordisk sold around the world.
The film, the trailer for which has just been unveiled by TrustNordisk, opens on Christmas Eve in 1969 as the Norwegian government announces that the country is home to the world’s largest offshore oil platform following the discovery of the Ekofisk field. The finding marks a turning point in the history of Norway and kicks off an unprecedented financial adventure. The thriller explores the consequences of 50 years of offshore drilling by the Norwegian government.
TrustNordisk has sold the film to Canada (Mongrel Media), Japan (Inter Film), South Korea (AtNine), Taiwan (Moviecloud), Hong Kong (Sundream Motion Pictures), Poland (Hagi Film), Former Yugoslavia (Cinemania), Czech Republic and...
- 9/22/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to the anticipated Danish epic period drama “Margrete-Queen of the North,” helmed by Charlotte Sieling. The upscale feature, produced by Birgitte Skov and Lars Bredo Rahbek for Scandinavian major Sf Studios, is screening at this week’s Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund (Aug.21-27).
The deal was negotiated by REinvent International Sales, exclusive sales agent of Sf Studios’ feature film slate.
“Samuel Goldwyn Films is a great partner for us, and we are confident that they will release the film with success,” said REinvent’s sales and marketing director Helene Aurø. “They have been keen on the film from the very beginning, and we are certain they will do a great job releasing this epic film in the US.”
An earlier sales deal was closed with Splendid Film for Germany.
Toplining Trine Dyrholm, “Margrete-Queen of the North” is a biopic about...
The deal was negotiated by REinvent International Sales, exclusive sales agent of Sf Studios’ feature film slate.
“Samuel Goldwyn Films is a great partner for us, and we are confident that they will release the film with success,” said REinvent’s sales and marketing director Helene Aurø. “They have been keen on the film from the very beginning, and we are certain they will do a great job releasing this epic film in the US.”
An earlier sales deal was closed with Splendid Film for Germany.
Toplining Trine Dyrholm, “Margrete-Queen of the North” is a biopic about...
- 8/24/2021
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
TrustNordisk has unveiled the trailer for “The North Sea,” the Norwegian disaster movie directed by John Andreas Andersen, and produced by the banner behind the Scandinavian blockbusters “The Quake” and “The Wave.”
“The North Sea” was co-written by Harald Rosenløw Eeg, who also penned “The Quake” and “The Wave,” and Lars Gudmestad, whose credits include the Norwegian thriller “Headhunters.”
The film opens on Christmas Eve in 1969 as the Norwegian government announces that the country is home to the world’s largest offshore oil platform following the discovery of the Ekofisk field. The finding marks a turning point in the history of Norway and kicks off an unprecedented financial adventure. The thriller explores the consequences of 50 years of offshore drilling by the Norwegian government.
“The North Sea” stars Kristine Kujath Thorp (“Ninjababy”), Rolf Kristian Larsen (“Cold Prey”), Anders Baasmo Christiansen (“Kon-Tiki”), Bjørn Floberg (“Out Stealing Horses”) and Anneke von der Lippe...
“The North Sea” was co-written by Harald Rosenløw Eeg, who also penned “The Quake” and “The Wave,” and Lars Gudmestad, whose credits include the Norwegian thriller “Headhunters.”
The film opens on Christmas Eve in 1969 as the Norwegian government announces that the country is home to the world’s largest offshore oil platform following the discovery of the Ekofisk field. The finding marks a turning point in the history of Norway and kicks off an unprecedented financial adventure. The thriller explores the consequences of 50 years of offshore drilling by the Norwegian government.
“The North Sea” stars Kristine Kujath Thorp (“Ninjababy”), Rolf Kristian Larsen (“Cold Prey”), Anders Baasmo Christiansen (“Kon-Tiki”), Bjørn Floberg (“Out Stealing Horses”) and Anneke von der Lippe...
- 5/27/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
REinvent International Sales has closed Germany on Charlotte Sieling’s anticipated epic period drama, “Margrete – Queen of the North,” starring Trine Dyrholm (“The Commune”), licensing the film to Splendid Film.
The film stars Dyrholm, the award-winning actress of Thomas Vinterberg’s “The Commune” and May el-Toukhy’s “Queen of Hearts,” as Margrete I of Denmark, who is considered the most powerful ruler in Scandinavian history, as she gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a peaceful union.
“Margrete· brings a fascinating “royal” and internationally hardly-known story to the screen, in an equally fascinating historical setting,” said
Rainer Flaskamp, head of acquisitions and sales at Splendid Film.
The historical drama has “a deep emotional angle and a lot of female power and involving some of Scandinavia’s best talent,” he added.
Helene Aurø, sales and marketing director at REinvent said that the company was “thrilled that Splendid has come onboard at an...
The film stars Dyrholm, the award-winning actress of Thomas Vinterberg’s “The Commune” and May el-Toukhy’s “Queen of Hearts,” as Margrete I of Denmark, who is considered the most powerful ruler in Scandinavian history, as she gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a peaceful union.
“Margrete· brings a fascinating “royal” and internationally hardly-known story to the screen, in an equally fascinating historical setting,” said
Rainer Flaskamp, head of acquisitions and sales at Splendid Film.
The historical drama has “a deep emotional angle and a lot of female power and involving some of Scandinavia’s best talent,” he added.
Helene Aurø, sales and marketing director at REinvent said that the company was “thrilled that Splendid has come onboard at an...
- 2/25/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Nordic production and distribution powerhouse Sf Studios and sales agency REinvent International Sales have revealed a sneak peek of Charlotte Sieling’s epic period drama “Margrete – Queen of the North,” starring Trine Dyrholm, a Berlin Silver Bear winner for best actress with Thomas Vinterberg’s “The Commune.”
Dyrholm, whose credits also include Susanne Bier’s Oscar winner “In a Better World” and May el-Toukhy’s “Queen of Hearts,” toplines as Margrete the First, who is considered the most powerful ruler in Scandinavian history, as she gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a peace-oriented union.
With a big budget by Scandinavian standards, “Margrete – Queen of the North” marks the first biopic movie about Margrete the First, a woman ahead of her time who sacrificed herself completely for her vision and for her countries. “Margrete -Queen of the North” is one of the titles set to be presented in the work in...
Dyrholm, whose credits also include Susanne Bier’s Oscar winner “In a Better World” and May el-Toukhy’s “Queen of Hearts,” toplines as Margrete the First, who is considered the most powerful ruler in Scandinavian history, as she gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a peace-oriented union.
With a big budget by Scandinavian standards, “Margrete – Queen of the North” marks the first biopic movie about Margrete the First, a woman ahead of her time who sacrificed herself completely for her vision and for her countries. “Margrete -Queen of the North” is one of the titles set to be presented in the work in...
- 1/19/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The fight for freedom of the press and against the oppressive political regime in the Philippines takes center stage in Ramona S. Diaz’s A Thousand Cuts, which opens in theaters and in virtual theaters nationwide.
As journalists around the world face threats and the term “fake news” is thrown around recklessly by world leaders, A Thousand Cuts puts Filipino journalist Maria Ressa in the spotlight. The founder of the news site Rappler and Time Magazine’s Person of The Year has been on the frontlines holding Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte accountable for his controversial and violent war on drugs in the country as well as his regime’s bolstering of misinformation. Ressa has always been in Duterte’s crosshairs and in June, she was found guilty of cyber libel by a court in the Philippines. Diaz’s docu follows Ressa’s journey and how its impact may have global consequences.
As journalists around the world face threats and the term “fake news” is thrown around recklessly by world leaders, A Thousand Cuts puts Filipino journalist Maria Ressa in the spotlight. The founder of the news site Rappler and Time Magazine’s Person of The Year has been on the frontlines holding Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte accountable for his controversial and violent war on drugs in the country as well as his regime’s bolstering of misinformation. Ressa has always been in Duterte’s crosshairs and in June, she was found guilty of cyber libel by a court in the Philippines. Diaz’s docu follows Ressa’s journey and how its impact may have global consequences.
- 8/7/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Tragedy strikes forty years after moving to Sweden and the loss is so profound that Trond (Stellan Skarsgård) discovers it difficult to continue on as before. When your life is changed so fully and abruptly, a desire to “pick up the pieces” very often pales in comparison to simply leaving them behind. Gone was his tether to the city and connection to his possessions. Gone was his sense of home itself. So he decides to leave and find another in the desolate countryside of Norway. Trond escapes an identity he’d spent decades cultivating to embrace the quiet of isolation instead. This is how he’ll survive the changing of the millennium alone. Rather than be reminded of who was missing during the inevitable celebrations, he’d go missing himself too.
Like everyone in Hans Petter Moland’s latest film Out Stealing Horses, Trond doesn’t want pity nor judgment.
Like everyone in Hans Petter Moland’s latest film Out Stealing Horses, Trond doesn’t want pity nor judgment.
- 8/6/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
"The way we carried on, something had to go wrong." Magnolia Pictures has released an official trailer for Out Stealing Horses, a Norwegian drama about a man thinking back on his life and his adolescence. The film originally premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last year, and is finally getting a release in the Us this summer after opening in Norway originally more than a year ago. Stellan Skarsgård stars as a man living alone quietly in Norway, who meets a new neighbor that he recognizes as someone from his youth. This takes him back to the summer of 1948 when he was 15 years old, and the events that summer that changed his life forever. Also starring Bjørn Floberg, Tobias Santelmann, Jon Ranes, and Danica Curcic. This is an excellent trailer for this unique Norwegian film, more than just a coming-of-age story. I caught this at Berlinale and quite liked it,...
- 7/9/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The big-budget production will start shooting on March 2, with a premiere planned for spring 2021.
Award-winning Queen Of Hearts actress Trine Dyrholm will play a different kind of queen in Charlotte Sieling’s historical epic Margrete – Queen Of The North.
The Danish actress plays Margrete I, who gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a peace-oriented union. In 1402, a conspiracy threatens to ruin her.
The film’s budget is larger than typical Scandinavian productions, at $9.4m (8.7m Euros).
The cast is a who’s who of pan-Scandinavian talent, also including Søren Malling (The Killing), Morten Hee Andersen (Ride Upon The Storm), Jakob Oftebro...
Award-winning Queen Of Hearts actress Trine Dyrholm will play a different kind of queen in Charlotte Sieling’s historical epic Margrete – Queen Of The North.
The Danish actress plays Margrete I, who gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a peace-oriented union. In 1402, a conspiracy threatens to ruin her.
The film’s budget is larger than typical Scandinavian productions, at $9.4m (8.7m Euros).
The cast is a who’s who of pan-Scandinavian talent, also including Søren Malling (The Killing), Morten Hee Andersen (Ride Upon The Storm), Jakob Oftebro...
- 2/14/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Norway has selected Hans Petter Moland’s drama Out Stealing Horses to represent it in the Best International Feature Film category at the 92nd Oscars. Adapted from the award-winning bestseller by Per Pettersen, the film stars Stellan Skarsgard as a grieving widower who moves to the countryside where a chance encounter rekindles the past.
A world premiere in Competition in Berlin, the movie took the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for its cinematography. Norway has received five nominations for the International Feature Oscar, previously known as the Foreign Language category. It most recently made the shortlist with Erik Poppe’s 2016 drama The King’s Choice.
In Out Stealing Horses, Skarsgard plays 67-year-old Trond who lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year’s Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives, he discovers he has a neighbor, a man Trond knew back in 1948, the summer he turned 15 and the...
A world premiere in Competition in Berlin, the movie took the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for its cinematography. Norway has received five nominations for the International Feature Oscar, previously known as the Foreign Language category. It most recently made the shortlist with Erik Poppe’s 2016 drama The King’s Choice.
In Out Stealing Horses, Skarsgard plays 67-year-old Trond who lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year’s Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives, he discovers he has a neighbor, a man Trond knew back in 1948, the summer he turned 15 and the...
- 9/3/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Haugesund, Norway — Hans Petter Moland’s sweeping literary adaptation “Out Stealing Horses” put in a dominant showing at Norway’s Amanda Awards on Saturday night, placing first with a collected five awards, including best Norwegian film.
Celebrating its 35th edition this year, the Norwegian industry’s top film prize helped kick off the Haugesund Film Festival and was broadcast live on national TV.
Moland’s generation-spanning outdoor drama very quickly took the lead at Saturday night’s ceremony, collecting additional awards for cinematography (Rasmus Videbæk), original music (Kaspar Kaae), best supporting actor (Bjørn Floberg), and best director.
The film premiered to strong notices at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where cinematographer Rasmus Videbæk won the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution. In his Berlinale review, Variety critic Guy Lodge called the Amanda winner a “loving adaptation” and credited the film’s “lush visual storytelling against its characters’ desolate interiors.
Celebrating its 35th edition this year, the Norwegian industry’s top film prize helped kick off the Haugesund Film Festival and was broadcast live on national TV.
Moland’s generation-spanning outdoor drama very quickly took the lead at Saturday night’s ceremony, collecting additional awards for cinematography (Rasmus Videbæk), original music (Kaspar Kaae), best supporting actor (Bjørn Floberg), and best director.
The film premiered to strong notices at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where cinematographer Rasmus Videbæk won the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution. In his Berlinale review, Variety critic Guy Lodge called the Amanda winner a “loving adaptation” and credited the film’s “lush visual storytelling against its characters’ desolate interiors.
- 8/17/2019
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Hans Petter Moland’s fourth feature to compete for the Golden Bear.
TrustNordisk has sold Hans Petter Moland’s Competition title Out Stealing Horses to four territories following its world premiere here.
The film has sold to China (Dd Dream), Benelux (September Films), Greece (Weird Wave) and Estonia (Estin Films). More deals are currently under negotiation.
Out Stealing Horses is Hans Petter Moland’s 11th feature and his fourth to compete for the Golden Bear.
Adapted from Per Petterson’s novel, the story follows 67-old widower Trond (Stellan Skarsgard) who discovers his neighbour (Bjørn Floberg) is someone he knew back...
TrustNordisk has sold Hans Petter Moland’s Competition title Out Stealing Horses to four territories following its world premiere here.
The film has sold to China (Dd Dream), Benelux (September Films), Greece (Weird Wave) and Estonia (Estin Films). More deals are currently under negotiation.
Out Stealing Horses is Hans Petter Moland’s 11th feature and his fourth to compete for the Golden Bear.
Adapted from Per Petterson’s novel, the story follows 67-old widower Trond (Stellan Skarsgard) who discovers his neighbour (Bjørn Floberg) is someone he knew back...
- 2/11/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
At several points in “Out Stealing Horses,” a seemingly bland observation turns out to carry far more cutting emotional weight. “Fathers are great,” says one old man to another, shortly before an enfolded series of revelations that suggests both men can hardly believe such a thing. “That’s life, things happen,” says a father to a son, knowing full well that nothing in the immediate future is going to happen quite as it should. Norwegian novelist Per Petterson’s international bestseller made a bittersweet virtue of such plain language, evoking the inner lives of men not much good at articulating themselves; Hans Petter Moland’s loving film adaptation, meanwhile, effectively plays lush visual storytelling against its characters’ desolate interiors.
The result is a heartfelt, attractive arthouse item that ought to travel as widely as its much-translated source novel, boosted by the internationally familiar presence of Stellan Skarsgard in the lead role of 67-year-old widower Trond,...
The result is a heartfelt, attractive arthouse item that ought to travel as widely as its much-translated source novel, boosted by the internationally familiar presence of Stellan Skarsgard in the lead role of 67-year-old widower Trond,...
- 2/9/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Moland appears in Competition for the 4th time.
Screen can reveal the first trailer for Out Stealing Horses, the latest feature from Hans Petter Moland which has its world premiere in competition at Berlin Film Festival (February 7-17).
It is written and directed by Moland, adapted from Per Petterson’s novel of the same name. Set in the winter of 1999 as New Year’s Eve approaches, the story follows 67-year-old Trond, who discovers a neighbour who he knew back in 1948. This meeting causes him to look back at that time in his life, including his father’s disappearance.
Stellan Skarsgård plays the lead role,...
Screen can reveal the first trailer for Out Stealing Horses, the latest feature from Hans Petter Moland which has its world premiere in competition at Berlin Film Festival (February 7-17).
It is written and directed by Moland, adapted from Per Petterson’s novel of the same name. Set in the winter of 1999 as New Year’s Eve approaches, the story follows 67-year-old Trond, who discovers a neighbour who he knew back in 1948. This meeting causes him to look back at that time in his life, including his father’s disappearance.
Stellan Skarsgård plays the lead role,...
- 1/17/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
New films by Agnieszka Holland, Agnes Varda and Isabel Coixet have been added to the official lineup of the upcoming Berlin Film Festival, along with special screenings of directorial debuts by British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor and “Narcos” star Wagner Moura of Brazil.
The Berlinale added 11 titles to its competition slate Thursday, representing countries such as China, Norway, Mongolia and Israel. Of the 18 competition titles selected so far, eight are directed by women, including festival opener “The Kindness of Strangers,” by Danish director Lone Scherfig.
Holland’s eagerly anticipated “Mr. Jones,” starring James Norton and Vanessa Kirby, will have its world premiere in Potsdamer Platz. The politically charged film centers on the real-life Welsh journalist Gareth Jones (Norton), whose reporting uncovered a deadly famine in Ukraine in the 1930s.
Another famine-themed film heading to Berlin is Ejiofor’s “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” which was recently acquired by Netflix and...
The Berlinale added 11 titles to its competition slate Thursday, representing countries such as China, Norway, Mongolia and Israel. Of the 18 competition titles selected so far, eight are directed by women, including festival opener “The Kindness of Strangers,” by Danish director Lone Scherfig.
Holland’s eagerly anticipated “Mr. Jones,” starring James Norton and Vanessa Kirby, will have its world premiere in Potsdamer Platz. The politically charged film centers on the real-life Welsh journalist Gareth Jones (Norton), whose reporting uncovered a deadly famine in Ukraine in the 1930s.
Another famine-themed film heading to Berlin is Ejiofor’s “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” which was recently acquired by Netflix and...
- 1/10/2019
- by Henry Chu
- Variety Film + TV
The Berlin Film Festival has added movies by Agnès Varda, Agnieszka Holland, Hans Petter Moland, Isabel Coixet and Wang Quan’an to its competition programme. Chiwetel Ejiofor’s directorial debut The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind will play in the Berlinale Special strand. Scroll down for the full list of additions to the batch of films already announced for the competition.
Coixet’s (The Bookshop) black-and-white feature Elisa & Marcela, the true-story of two women who got married in Spain in 1901 after one adopted a male identity, will likely receive an extra dose of media attention given that it is a Netflix acquisition, marking the streaming giant’s first film to screen in competition in Berlin. Festival director Dieter Kosslick has previously said that competition films must have a theatrical release.
Among other highlights announced today are James Norton and Vanessa Kirby starrer Mr. Jones from Polish director Agnieszka Holland and Italian mafia pic Piranhas,...
Coixet’s (The Bookshop) black-and-white feature Elisa & Marcela, the true-story of two women who got married in Spain in 1901 after one adopted a male identity, will likely receive an extra dose of media attention given that it is a Netflix acquisition, marking the streaming giant’s first film to screen in competition in Berlin. Festival director Dieter Kosslick has previously said that competition films must have a theatrical release.
Among other highlights announced today are James Norton and Vanessa Kirby starrer Mr. Jones from Polish director Agnieszka Holland and Italian mafia pic Piranhas,...
- 1/10/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Skarsgård reunites with Hans Petter Moland for adaptation of Per Petterson novel.
TrustNordisk have acquired sales rights to Out Stealing Horses from writer/director Hans Petter Moland, with Stellan Skarsgård taking the lead role.
Bjørn Floberg (Insomnia, Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Anders Baasmo (Kon-Tiki, The King’s Choice) have also been cast.
Moland’s previous films include Berlin competition titles The Beautiful Country (2004), A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010), and In Order Of Disappearance (2014).
Based on Per Petterson’s novel of the same name, Out Stealing sees Skarsgård play 67-year-old Trond, who must recall difficult experiences affter meeting a face from the past. Petterson’s book was named one of the New York Times’ ‘5 Best Fiction Books 2007.’
Out Stealing Horses is produced by Turid Øversveen and Karin Julsrud for 4 ½ Fiksjon in co-production with Zentropa Entertainments5, Zentropa Sweden, Helgeland Film, Film i Väst and Nordisk Film. Shooting begins on February 19th, with the final shooting phase in June or July...
TrustNordisk have acquired sales rights to Out Stealing Horses from writer/director Hans Petter Moland, with Stellan Skarsgård taking the lead role.
Bjørn Floberg (Insomnia, Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Anders Baasmo (Kon-Tiki, The King’s Choice) have also been cast.
Moland’s previous films include Berlin competition titles The Beautiful Country (2004), A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010), and In Order Of Disappearance (2014).
Based on Per Petterson’s novel of the same name, Out Stealing sees Skarsgård play 67-year-old Trond, who must recall difficult experiences affter meeting a face from the past. Petterson’s book was named one of the New York Times’ ‘5 Best Fiction Books 2007.’
Out Stealing Horses is produced by Turid Øversveen and Karin Julsrud for 4 ½ Fiksjon in co-production with Zentropa Entertainments5, Zentropa Sweden, Helgeland Film, Film i Väst and Nordisk Film. Shooting begins on February 19th, with the final shooting phase in June or July...
- 2/16/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
I last watched Christopher Nolan's 2002 remake of Insomnia in 2010 when I reviewed the Blu-ray release, and until you voted it a Movie Club selection, I'd actually never seen the Erik Skjoldbj?rg-directed original. While both tell the same story in almost the exact same way, there are distinct differences -- beyond the fact Nolan's adaptation runs 22 bloated extra minutes longer -- that caught my attention. Unfortunately, since the narrative of both films runs so close together it's hard for me to discuss one without discussing the other and not being that big a fan of Nolan's Insomnia I think these two factors put Skjoldbj?rg's original at a slight disadvantage for my first time viewing. To begin, I felt Nolan's Insomnia was too long and as much as the investigation into the murder of a young girl proves intriguing, as does the dynamic between Al Pacino and Robin Williams,...
- 12/10/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Gangster pictures are often haunted by the figure of the hulking, ruthless hitman, loyal to a fault, who inevitably squares off against his bosses once they decide he’s outlived his usefulness. In Hans Petter Moland’s black comedy A Somewhat Gentle Man, Stellan Skarsgård plays a variation on the type. Not at all shrewd, Skarsgård does only as he’s asked; if his boss Bjørn Floberg never gave him an assignment, Skarsgård would happily sit in his room, smoking and watching television. And if no one provided him with cigarettes or a TV, he’d ...
- 1/13/2011
- avclub.com
Strand Releasing's A Somewhat Gentle Man is our latest indie film feature this week. Hans Hans Petter Moland's comedy crime drama opens on January 14th in New York and is screenwritten by Kim Fupz Aakeson. We have new movie images in from the Paradox Produksjon film starring the versatile and talented Stellan Skarsgård as well as Bjørn Floberg, Gard B. Eidsvold, Jorunn Kjellsby, Bjørn Sundquist, Jon Øigarden and Kjersti Holmen. A Somewhat Gentle Man was a winner of the Reader Jury of the Berliner Morgenpost" award and nominee of the Golden Berlin Bear award at this year's Berlin International Film Festival. Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgard) is a somewhat gentle man, as far as gangsters go. Reluctantly back on the streets following a stint in prison, Ulrik's boss greets him with open arms and a plan to settle an old score...
- 12/31/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Strand Releasing's A Somewhat Gentle Man is our latest indie film feature this week. Hans Hans Petter Moland's comedy crime drama opens on January 14th in New York and is screenwritten by Kim Fupz Aakeson. We have new movie images in from the Paradox Produksjon film starring the versatile and talented Stellan Skarsgård as well as Bjørn Floberg, Gard B. Eidsvold, Jorunn Kjellsby, Bjørn Sundquist, Jon Øigarden and Kjersti Holmen. A Somewhat Gentle Man was a winner of the Reader Jury of the Berliner Morgenpost" award and nominee of the Golden Berlin Bear award at this year's Berlin International Film Festival. Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgard) is a somewhat gentle man, as far as gangsters go. Reluctantly back on the streets following a stint in prison, Ulrik's boss greets him with open arms and a plan to settle an old score...
- 12/31/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Hans Petter Moland's dark ex-con comedy is reminiscent of Anders Thomas Jensen's humour, the Danish director responsible for Adam's Apples and The Green Butchers...
After twelve years in prison for killing his wife's lover, Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgård) is reluctantly released to a daunting changed world. Reunited with his ex-gangster chum Jensen (Bjørn Floberg), Ulrik is encouraged to avenge his downfall by killing the guy who ratted on him. But Ulrik is more interested in earning his the respect of long-lost son Geir (Jan Gunnar Røise). Studying to be an electrical engineer, replete with a pregnant girlfriend and decorated flat, Geir represents the life Ulrik now wants for himself.
During the time Ulrik spent in prison, his crim buddies have abandoned their underworld lifestyles, and consequently aren't as tough or respected as before, although Jensen misguidedly kids himself: “I look after my people, Ulrik. If my people show weakness,...
After twelve years in prison for killing his wife's lover, Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgård) is reluctantly released to a daunting changed world. Reunited with his ex-gangster chum Jensen (Bjørn Floberg), Ulrik is encouraged to avenge his downfall by killing the guy who ratted on him. But Ulrik is more interested in earning his the respect of long-lost son Geir (Jan Gunnar Røise). Studying to be an electrical engineer, replete with a pregnant girlfriend and decorated flat, Geir represents the life Ulrik now wants for himself.
During the time Ulrik spent in prison, his crim buddies have abandoned their underworld lifestyles, and consequently aren't as tough or respected as before, although Jensen misguidedly kids himself: “I look after my people, Ulrik. If my people show weakness,...
- 11/10/2010
- Shadowlocked
Chances are, you've never seen a Norwegian film. Unlike other Nordic countries, Norway isn't exactly known as a cinematic powerhouse. Thanks to a simmering little film starring a Swedish actor, that may start changing.
A Somewhat Gentle Man (En ganske snill mann) is a fair description of a small-time criminal released from prison after serving a 12-year sentence. Whatever he was in his pre-prison days, the now passive Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgård) has the opportunity to start his life over, only there isn't much of a life for him on the outside. He has no job, his wife left him, and his son is busy with a life of his own. Reliant on the charity of his old crime boss to find housing and gainful employment, Ulrik is not so much a broken man but a diminished one, a stranger in his own life. For all his passivity, Ulrik is the...
A Somewhat Gentle Man (En ganske snill mann) is a fair description of a small-time criminal released from prison after serving a 12-year sentence. Whatever he was in his pre-prison days, the now passive Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgård) has the opportunity to start his life over, only there isn't much of a life for him on the outside. He has no job, his wife left him, and his son is busy with a life of his own. Reliant on the charity of his old crime boss to find housing and gainful employment, Ulrik is not so much a broken man but a diminished one, a stranger in his own life. For all his passivity, Ulrik is the...
- 10/6/2010
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
Reviewed at Fantastic Fest 2010.
Released from prison after serving 12 years for murder, Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgård) makes his own way into town. There's no one to pick him up. Everyone he looks up from his old life swears they thought he was getting out the next day or next month. The only one happy to see him is Rune (Bjørn Floberg), his old boss from his tough guy days, who's eager to have Ulrik pick up where he left off by killing the man who testified against him and put him in jail for murder -- not for any profit, really, just to prove Rune's not the type of fellow to be messed with.
"A Somewhat Gentle Man," directed by Hans Petter Moland, is an incredibly agreeable gangster movie, in part because Ulrik's not very interested in becoming a gangster again. Rune helps him get a day job as a mechanic...
Released from prison after serving 12 years for murder, Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgård) makes his own way into town. There's no one to pick him up. Everyone he looks up from his old life swears they thought he was getting out the next day or next month. The only one happy to see him is Rune (Bjørn Floberg), his old boss from his tough guy days, who's eager to have Ulrik pick up where he left off by killing the man who testified against him and put him in jail for murder -- not for any profit, really, just to prove Rune's not the type of fellow to be messed with.
"A Somewhat Gentle Man," directed by Hans Petter Moland, is an incredibly agreeable gangster movie, in part because Ulrik's not very interested in becoming a gangster again. Rune helps him get a day job as a mechanic...
- 9/30/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
Once referred to as “the Ridley Scott of Norway" by film historian Peter Cowie, director Hans Petter Moland isn’t quite as prolific as his English counterpart but he is a talented dude. His last film, 2006’s Comrade Pedersen failed to make any major splashes internationally but it looks like Moland is forging ahead with a totally different tone. This time around, a comedy which is likely to bring him a little international love.
A Somewhat Gentle Man (“En ganske snill mann”) reteams Moland with Stellan Skarsgård who stars as the titular character except he’s not exactly “gentle” (at least his actions aren’t). Here’s what the official synopsis has to say:
Ulrik is a somewhat gentle man. He has no special wishes and makes no demands. He has killed some people and crippled a few. But this sort of stuff is part of the job when working in the criminal world.
A Somewhat Gentle Man (“En ganske snill mann”) reteams Moland with Stellan Skarsgård who stars as the titular character except he’s not exactly “gentle” (at least his actions aren’t). Here’s what the official synopsis has to say:
Ulrik is a somewhat gentle man. He has no special wishes and makes no demands. He has killed some people and crippled a few. But this sort of stuff is part of the job when working in the criminal world.
- 2/11/2010
- QuietEarth.us
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