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
A farcical comic drama form Norway, Hans Petter Moland's A Somewhat Gentle Man stars Stellan Skarsgard as Ulrik, released from jail after a lengthy sentence for killing the man who slept with his wife. Re-entering the free world with more than a little reluctance Ulrik is torn between patching his personal life back together and rejoining his aging criminal pals Jensen (Bjorn Floberg) and Rolf (Gard B. Eidsvold) to take revenge on the man who testified against him.
Set in a desolate and grim neighbourhood bordering a major road route, this is Norway at its most grim and realist. The story, however, is far from realistic with a streak of hilarious absurdist humour running throughout. Slowly paced and scripted with some of the most wonderful deadpan humour, the film is populated by down-on-their-luck Norwegians, often deluded about the reality of their own existence. Sven (Bjorn Sundguist), the owner of...
Set in a desolate and grim neighbourhood bordering a major road route, this is Norway at its most grim and realist. The story, however, is far from realistic with a streak of hilarious absurdist humour running throughout. Slowly paced and scripted with some of the most wonderful deadpan humour, the film is populated by down-on-their-luck Norwegians, often deluded about the reality of their own existence. Sven (Bjorn Sundguist), the owner of...
- 11/1/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Cologne, Germany – Swedish stand-up star Jonas Gardell has picked up $2 million in production support from the Norwegian Film Institute (Nfi) for a feature film based on his play "Manniskor I solan" (People in the Sun).
Theatrical and TV director Per-Olav Sorensn will helm "People in the Sun," dubbed a doomsday comedy, in his feature film debut. The story follows two couples left alone in a cottage while everyone else is out celebrating Midsummer Eve. What they don't know: the end of the world is nigh.
Gardell will star alongside Scandinavian actors Ingar Helge Gimle, Kjersti Holmen, Ane Dahl Torp, Jon Oigarden and Ghita Norby. Budgeted at $3.5 million, "People in the Sun" is set to begin shooting this August. Synnove Horsdal and Cornelia Boysen will produce for Maipo, the Norwegian firm behind the Oscar-nominated "Elling" (2001). Nordisk will release "People" locally in March 2011.
Theatrical and TV director Per-Olav Sorensn will helm "People in the Sun," dubbed a doomsday comedy, in his feature film debut. The story follows two couples left alone in a cottage while everyone else is out celebrating Midsummer Eve. What they don't know: the end of the world is nigh.
Gardell will star alongside Scandinavian actors Ingar Helge Gimle, Kjersti Holmen, Ane Dahl Torp, Jon Oigarden and Ghita Norby. Budgeted at $3.5 million, "People in the Sun" is set to begin shooting this August. Synnove Horsdal and Cornelia Boysen will produce for Maipo, the Norwegian firm behind the Oscar-nominated "Elling" (2001). Nordisk will release "People" locally in March 2011.
- 6/17/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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
Casanova gets his comeuppance in ''Twice Upon a Time, '' a melodrama of failed relationships by Norwegian filmmaker Anja Brejen. Part of Women in Film and the American Film Institute's presentation ''A Festival of Women Directors, '' the feature traces the undoing of a modern-day Lothario from his own highly limited perspective, a strategy that ensures that the audience will always be one or two emotional steps ahead of the poor sap.
Not only does this ensure the audience can adopt a smugly superior position to the hero, but that the film will unwind in a series of predictable revelations. For the doggedly dedicated cineaste only, this feature appears limited to the festival circuit. It screens Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the AFI.
The philanderer is Jan (Sven Wollter), a successful, good-looking, middle-aged theatrical designer who has enjoyed a life of unbridled success with women. However, the lovers in his life are beginning to toss him aside for more stable relationships, and when he plots a strategic retreat to the arms of his only mildly estranged wife, Lillian (Kjersti Holmen), he discovers to his horror that not only has she come to grips with life without him -- a discovery she cruelly confirms by bedding him down one last time -- but has begun to consider spending it with another man.
Most of the first half of the film consists of Jan getting dressed down, one way or another, by the various women he knows, until finally he goes a little off his rocker. Collecting a shotgun, he takes a room in the old student digs where he and his wife first cohabited, and which is now conveniently a sniper's window across the way from her new lover's apartment.
From then on it's a should-I-or-shouldn't-I battle, somewhat enlivened by his comically surreptitious attempts to retrieve a necklace he had coveted in his youth from its new owner, the Egyptian ambassador to Norway.
The film might have appeared bright and satiric a while ago, but now its one-way indictment plays like a stacked deck. After all, why did all these suddenly enlightened women collapse into this lowdown wolf's arms in the first place?
To investigate that would tip the judgment away from its preordained verdict, and though Brejen grabs for a surprise emotional reversal at the end, its sweet potential is ruined by the sour lead-in.
TWICE UPON A TIME
Norsk Film A/S, the Swedish Film Institute, the Danish Film Institute, Nordic Film & TV A/S
Director Anja Brejen
Producer Gunnar Svensrud
Writers Anja Brejen, Carl Martin Borgen
Cinematographer Philip Ogaard
Editor Einar Egeland
Music Jan Garbarek
Color
Cast:
Jan Sven Wollter
Lillian Kjersti Holmen
Running time -- 90 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
Not only does this ensure the audience can adopt a smugly superior position to the hero, but that the film will unwind in a series of predictable revelations. For the doggedly dedicated cineaste only, this feature appears limited to the festival circuit. It screens Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the AFI.
The philanderer is Jan (Sven Wollter), a successful, good-looking, middle-aged theatrical designer who has enjoyed a life of unbridled success with women. However, the lovers in his life are beginning to toss him aside for more stable relationships, and when he plots a strategic retreat to the arms of his only mildly estranged wife, Lillian (Kjersti Holmen), he discovers to his horror that not only has she come to grips with life without him -- a discovery she cruelly confirms by bedding him down one last time -- but has begun to consider spending it with another man.
Most of the first half of the film consists of Jan getting dressed down, one way or another, by the various women he knows, until finally he goes a little off his rocker. Collecting a shotgun, he takes a room in the old student digs where he and his wife first cohabited, and which is now conveniently a sniper's window across the way from her new lover's apartment.
From then on it's a should-I-or-shouldn't-I battle, somewhat enlivened by his comically surreptitious attempts to retrieve a necklace he had coveted in his youth from its new owner, the Egyptian ambassador to Norway.
The film might have appeared bright and satiric a while ago, but now its one-way indictment plays like a stacked deck. After all, why did all these suddenly enlightened women collapse into this lowdown wolf's arms in the first place?
To investigate that would tip the judgment away from its preordained verdict, and though Brejen grabs for a surprise emotional reversal at the end, its sweet potential is ruined by the sour lead-in.
TWICE UPON A TIME
Norsk Film A/S, the Swedish Film Institute, the Danish Film Institute, Nordic Film & TV A/S
Director Anja Brejen
Producer Gunnar Svensrud
Writers Anja Brejen, Carl Martin Borgen
Cinematographer Philip Ogaard
Editor Einar Egeland
Music Jan Garbarek
Color
Cast:
Jan Sven Wollter
Lillian Kjersti Holmen
Running time -- 90 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 11/15/1991
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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