TrustNordisk has sold “Loveable” to Estin Film for Lithuania and Estonia, Cinemania Group for the former Yugoslavia and September Film for Benelux.
The film, directed by Lilja Ingolfsdottir, making her feature debut, premieres at Karlovy Vary Film Festival on Tuesday.
It’s produced by Thomas Robsahm (“The Worst Person in the World”) and Nordisk Film Production. In September, it picked up the Best Nordic Project Award at the Finnish Film Affair.
“I wanted to see how far I could go and how brave I could be,” Ingolfsdottir told Variety.
“With the actors, and everyone else involved in the process, we had to be emotional, available and transparent. Now, I’ve heard from people that it wasn’t like watching a film. They felt like they’ve been through something transformative.”
In the story, Maria (Helga Guren) is shocked to discover her husband Sigmund (Oddgeir Thune) wants a divorce. She’s devastated,...
The film, directed by Lilja Ingolfsdottir, making her feature debut, premieres at Karlovy Vary Film Festival on Tuesday.
It’s produced by Thomas Robsahm (“The Worst Person in the World”) and Nordisk Film Production. In September, it picked up the Best Nordic Project Award at the Finnish Film Affair.
“I wanted to see how far I could go and how brave I could be,” Ingolfsdottir told Variety.
“With the actors, and everyone else involved in the process, we had to be emotional, available and transparent. Now, I’ve heard from people that it wasn’t like watching a film. They felt like they’ve been through something transformative.”
In the story, Maria (Helga Guren) is shocked to discover her husband Sigmund (Oddgeir Thune) wants a divorce. She’s devastated,...
- 7/1/2024
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
“The Worst Person in the World” producer Thomas Robsahm is set to produce “Loveable,” another contemporary relationship movie headlined by Scandinavian stars Helga Guren (“22. juli”) and Oddgeir Thune (“Blind Spot”).
Scandinavia’s leading sales company TrustNordisk is representing “Loveable” in international markets.
“Loveable” will mark the long-gestated feature debut of Lilja Ingolfsdottir, who has directed a flurry of well-received shorts, including “Neglect,” and is teaching directing and filmmaking at the Norwegian Film School.
Penned by Ingolfsdottir, “Loveable” follows Maria, 40, who juggles four children and a demanding career while her second husband, Sigmund, travels all the time. One evening, Sigmund comes home from a long work trip abroad and finds Maria frustrated and exhausted. They get into an ugly argument and Maria bursts with anger. Despite Maria’s desperate efforts to salvage their relationship, Sigmund eventually tells her he wants to divorce and forces her to face her worst fears.
Robsahm,...
Scandinavia’s leading sales company TrustNordisk is representing “Loveable” in international markets.
“Loveable” will mark the long-gestated feature debut of Lilja Ingolfsdottir, who has directed a flurry of well-received shorts, including “Neglect,” and is teaching directing and filmmaking at the Norwegian Film School.
Penned by Ingolfsdottir, “Loveable” follows Maria, 40, who juggles four children and a demanding career while her second husband, Sigmund, travels all the time. One evening, Sigmund comes home from a long work trip abroad and finds Maria frustrated and exhausted. They get into an ugly argument and Maria bursts with anger. Despite Maria’s desperate efforts to salvage their relationship, Sigmund eventually tells her he wants to divorce and forces her to face her worst fears.
Robsahm,...
- 2/5/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Nearly a decade has spanned between Joachim Trier‘s three features to date, but the good news is he’s picking up the pace. The Norwegian filmmaker has his next film ready to go, “Thelma,” and it sounds like a fascinating new direction for the director who until now has focused on intimate character dramas.
Read More: Director Joachim Trier Goes Supernatural For His ‘Louder Than Bombs’ Follow-Up ‘Thelma’
Starring Eili Harboe, Okay Kaya, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Vanessa Borgli, Ingrid Giæver, Anders Mossling, Jonas Jörgensen, Steinar Klouman Hallert, Grethe Eltervåg, Marte Magnusdotter Solem, Oskar Pask, Ludvig Algeback, Vidar Fransson, and Ian Twedmark, the supernatural thriller follows a young woman who suddenly discovers she has terrifying, mysterious powers after she falls in love.
Continue reading First Trailer For Joachim Trier’s Supernatural Thriller ‘Thelma’ at The Playlist.
Read More: Director Joachim Trier Goes Supernatural For His ‘Louder Than Bombs’ Follow-Up ‘Thelma’
Starring Eili Harboe, Okay Kaya, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Vanessa Borgli, Ingrid Giæver, Anders Mossling, Jonas Jörgensen, Steinar Klouman Hallert, Grethe Eltervåg, Marte Magnusdotter Solem, Oskar Pask, Ludvig Algeback, Vidar Fransson, and Ian Twedmark, the supernatural thriller follows a young woman who suddenly discovers she has terrifying, mysterious powers after she falls in love.
Continue reading First Trailer For Joachim Trier’s Supernatural Thriller ‘Thelma’ at The Playlist.
- 4/8/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
New films from Hal Hartley, James Franco, Gus Van Sant among lineup.
Eighteen features - including seven documentaries - have been selected for the Berlinale’s Panorama programme.
Among the selection are new films from Hal Hartley, Doze Niu Chen-Zer, Jk Youn and The Yes Men.
Hartley concludes his filmic trilogy with Ned Rifle while Justin Kelly’s Gus Van Sant-produced debut I Am Michael stars James Franco as a gay activist in the 1980s.
54: The Director’s Cut
USA
By Mark Christopher
With Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Mike Myers, Sela Ward, Mark Ruffalo
World premiere
Chorus
Canada
By François Delisle
With Sébastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Pierre Curzi, Geneviève Bujold
European premiere
Der letzte Sommer der Reichen (The Last Summer of the Rich)
Austria
By Peter Kern
With Amira Casar, Nicole Gerdon, Winfried Glatzeder
World premiere
Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern (Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents)
Switzerland / Germany
By Stina Werenfels...
Eighteen features - including seven documentaries - have been selected for the Berlinale’s Panorama programme.
Among the selection are new films from Hal Hartley, Doze Niu Chen-Zer, Jk Youn and The Yes Men.
Hartley concludes his filmic trilogy with Ned Rifle while Justin Kelly’s Gus Van Sant-produced debut I Am Michael stars James Franco as a gay activist in the 1980s.
54: The Director’s Cut
USA
By Mark Christopher
With Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Mike Myers, Sela Ward, Mark Ruffalo
World premiere
Chorus
Canada
By François Delisle
With Sébastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Pierre Curzi, Geneviève Bujold
European premiere
Der letzte Sommer der Reichen (The Last Summer of the Rich)
Austria
By Peter Kern
With Amira Casar, Nicole Gerdon, Winfried Glatzeder
World premiere
Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern (Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents)
Switzerland / Germany
By Stina Werenfels...
- 12/16/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Norwegian director Ole Giaever’s Toronto title has become the first selection for the Panorama strand at the next Berlinale.
Norwegian director Ole Giaever’s Out of Nature (Mot naturen), which received its world premiere at Toronto earlier this month, has been revealed as the first title for the Panorama section at the next Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 5-15, 2015)
Giaever also plays the lead in the comic drama about the uncensored thoughts of a man on a solo hiking trip. His debut feature, The Mountain, screened in Berlin’s Panorama section in 2011.
Panorama curator Wieland Speck described the film as “a disarmingly modern tale of male self reflection” and called it “a brave take on integrity, emancipation and identity”.
The Panorama strand comprises 18 films intended to provide insight into new directions of art house cinema.
Co-directed by Marte Vold, Out of Nature co-stars Marte Magnusdotter Solem, Rebekka Nystabakk and Ellen Birgitte Winther.
It will be...
Norwegian director Ole Giaever’s Out of Nature (Mot naturen), which received its world premiere at Toronto earlier this month, has been revealed as the first title for the Panorama section at the next Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 5-15, 2015)
Giaever also plays the lead in the comic drama about the uncensored thoughts of a man on a solo hiking trip. His debut feature, The Mountain, screened in Berlin’s Panorama section in 2011.
Panorama curator Wieland Speck described the film as “a disarmingly modern tale of male self reflection” and called it “a brave take on integrity, emancipation and identity”.
The Panorama strand comprises 18 films intended to provide insight into new directions of art house cinema.
Co-directed by Marte Vold, Out of Nature co-stars Marte Magnusdotter Solem, Rebekka Nystabakk and Ellen Birgitte Winther.
It will be...
- 9/17/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
A Hollow World of Obligations
Ole Giæver’s sophomore feature, Out of Nature, very much resembles—in setting, structure and thematic preoccupation—his short film work and prior, less effective, feature effort, Fjellet. Like those works, his latest similarly presents a situation where enlightenment and introspection stems from one’s engagement with nature, only the template is less manufactured and more intimate, making the obviousness of the metaphor far more palatable.
Here, Martin (played by Giæver himself), a meek, diffident man lacking basic social skills plans an escape to the mountains for the weekend, leaving his wife (Marte Magnusdotter Solem) and son (Sivert Giæver Solem) behind despite some unspoken tensions. This sojourn, which consists of Martin’s persisting inner-dialogue accompanying images of him hiking, running, sitting around, pissing and occasionally masturbating, is a passive-aggressive act of empowerment unto itself. Rather than confront the problems in his life, he flees from them and avoids them.
Ole Giæver’s sophomore feature, Out of Nature, very much resembles—in setting, structure and thematic preoccupation—his short film work and prior, less effective, feature effort, Fjellet. Like those works, his latest similarly presents a situation where enlightenment and introspection stems from one’s engagement with nature, only the template is less manufactured and more intimate, making the obviousness of the metaphor far more palatable.
Here, Martin (played by Giæver himself), a meek, diffident man lacking basic social skills plans an escape to the mountains for the weekend, leaving his wife (Marte Magnusdotter Solem) and son (Sivert Giæver Solem) behind despite some unspoken tensions. This sojourn, which consists of Martin’s persisting inner-dialogue accompanying images of him hiking, running, sitting around, pissing and occasionally masturbating, is a passive-aggressive act of empowerment unto itself. Rather than confront the problems in his life, he flees from them and avoids them.
- 9/6/2014
- by Robert Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The Mountain
Written and Directed by Ole Giæver
Norway, 2011
On the snow-covered precipice of a Norwegian mountain, Solveig (Ellen Dorrit Petersen) and Nora (Marte Magnusdotter Solem) are parlously exposed – not to the elements themselves, but to each other. Full of emotion, angst, and reticence, Ole Giæver’s The Mountain is a spellbinding meditation about love and loss redeemed.
The film follows the married couple as they hike up the desolate Norwegian countryside. With their relationship already on the rocks, Solveig sees the excursion as a way to purge the discontent in their marriage, while Nora doesn’t see the point at all. As we slowly increment up the mountain, we find that the emotional chasm between the two is more plaintive in origin, with the hike acting as an intrepid journey for catharsis.
The location of the film is incredibly important because it serves as a storytelling device. On the mountain,...
Written and Directed by Ole Giæver
Norway, 2011
On the snow-covered precipice of a Norwegian mountain, Solveig (Ellen Dorrit Petersen) and Nora (Marte Magnusdotter Solem) are parlously exposed – not to the elements themselves, but to each other. Full of emotion, angst, and reticence, Ole Giæver’s The Mountain is a spellbinding meditation about love and loss redeemed.
The film follows the married couple as they hike up the desolate Norwegian countryside. With their relationship already on the rocks, Solveig sees the excursion as a way to purge the discontent in their marriage, while Nora doesn’t see the point at all. As we slowly increment up the mountain, we find that the emotional chasm between the two is more plaintive in origin, with the hike acting as an intrepid journey for catharsis.
The location of the film is incredibly important because it serves as a storytelling device. On the mountain,...
- 5/26/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Though it slipped past us somehow the 2011 Berlin Film Festival released the first block of titles from their Panorama section yesterday and there are some very familiar names in there, among them Ryoo Seung-Wan's The Unjust, Jorge Padilha's Elite Squad 2, Angelique Bosio's The Advocate For Fagdom and Hugo Olsson's The Black Power Mixtape - all of which have received coverage here in the pages of Twitch. You want the complete list? Here it is:
Panorama Main Programme + Panorama Special Bu-dang-geo-rae (The Unjust) by Seung-wan Ryoo, Republic of Koreawith Jung-min Hwang, Seung-bum Ryoo, Hae-jin Yoo Chang-Pi-Hae (Ashamed) by Soo-hyun Kim, Republic of Koreawith Hyo-jin Kim, Kkobbi Kim Dance Town by Kyu-hwan Jeon, Republic of Koreawith Mir-an Ra, Seong-tae Oh The Devil's Double by Lee Tamahori, Belgiumwith Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier Dirty Girl by Abe Sylvia, USAwith Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Dwight Yoakam, Mary Steenburgen, Jeremy Dozier...
Panorama Main Programme + Panorama Special Bu-dang-geo-rae (The Unjust) by Seung-wan Ryoo, Republic of Koreawith Jung-min Hwang, Seung-bum Ryoo, Hae-jin Yoo Chang-Pi-Hae (Ashamed) by Soo-hyun Kim, Republic of Koreawith Hyo-jin Kim, Kkobbi Kim Dance Town by Kyu-hwan Jeon, Republic of Koreawith Mir-an Ra, Seong-tae Oh The Devil's Double by Lee Tamahori, Belgiumwith Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier Dirty Girl by Abe Sylvia, USAwith Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Dwight Yoakam, Mary Steenburgen, Jeremy Dozier...
- 1/4/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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