Ms Novak’s (Mia Wasikowska) students Fred (Luke Barker), Ragna (Florence Baker), Helen (Gwen Currant), Elsa (Ksenia Devriendt), and Ben (Samuel D Anderson) in Jessica Hausner’s bewitching Club Zero
In the second installment with Jessica Hausner on Club Zero (co-written with Geraldine Bajard) and scored by Markus Binder (European Film Award winner), starring Mia Wasikowska (as Conscious Eating instructor Ms Novak), we discussed her longtime collaborators, costume designer Tanja Hausner and cinematographer Martin Gschlacht plus Sidse Babett Knudsen and Peter & The Wolf.
Jessica Hausner on using Peter & The Wolf in Club Zero: “It’s a very common fairytale and we found out that it’s really very well known …” Photo: Anne Katrin Titze
The parents of the students are played by Elsa Zylberstein (Simone Veil in Olivier Dahan’s all-embracing portrait Simone: Woman Of The Century) Mathieu Demy, Camilla Rutherford...
In the second installment with Jessica Hausner on Club Zero (co-written with Geraldine Bajard) and scored by Markus Binder (European Film Award winner), starring Mia Wasikowska (as Conscious Eating instructor Ms Novak), we discussed her longtime collaborators, costume designer Tanja Hausner and cinematographer Martin Gschlacht plus Sidse Babett Knudsen and Peter & The Wolf.
Jessica Hausner on using Peter & The Wolf in Club Zero: “It’s a very common fairytale and we found out that it’s really very well known …” Photo: Anne Katrin Titze
The parents of the students are played by Elsa Zylberstein (Simone Veil in Olivier Dahan’s all-embracing portrait Simone: Woman Of The Century) Mathieu Demy, Camilla Rutherford...
- 4/2/2024
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The epic adventure is almost over for dark fantasy anime Ragna Crimson , which has been flying high and slaying dragons since October 1 last year. A 'final chapter' visual was unveiled today ahead of tomorrow's penultimate broadcast before the season concludes with Episode 24 next week. Finale Visual Related: Ragna Crimson Anime Releases Creditless Theme Song Videos for Cour 2 Based on the manga by Daiki Kobayashi, Ragna Crimson is directed by Ken Takahashi at studio Silver Link., with series composition by Deko Akao ( The Dungeon of Black Company ), character designs by Shinpei Aoki ( Wise Man's Grandchild creature designer) and music by Koji Fujimoto ( The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! ). Square Enix publishes the manga's official English version and describes the story: In this action-packed dark fantasy, humanity lives under the threat of annihilation by immensely powerful dragons. The dragon hunter Ragna embarks on a revenge-fueled quest to eliminate that threat once and for all!
- 3/22/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
Club Zero director Jessica Hausner with Anne-Katrin Titze (in Batsheva): “I do see the film in connection to a fairy tale. I think in all my films there is a connection to one fairy tale or the other.”
Jessica Hausner’s bewitching Club Zero (co-written with Geraldine Bajard), shot by Martin Gschlacht, scored by Markus Binder (European Film Award winner) with costumes by the ever surprising Tanja Hausner, starts off with students Fred (Luke Barker), Elsa (Ksenia Devriendt), Ragna (Florence Baker), Ben (Samuel D Anderson), Helen (Gwen Currant), Joan (Sade McNichols-Thomas), and Corbinian (Andrei Hozoc), all dressed in gender-neutral pale yellow polo shirts, beige skorts, and purple knee socks, gathering insect-like chairs for a Conscious Eating class, led by recently hired instructor Ms Novak (Mia Wasikowska). Ms Dorset (Sidse Babett Knudsen), the head mistress of this elite and very expensive international boarding school, is well-meaning and oblivious of...
Jessica Hausner’s bewitching Club Zero (co-written with Geraldine Bajard), shot by Martin Gschlacht, scored by Markus Binder (European Film Award winner) with costumes by the ever surprising Tanja Hausner, starts off with students Fred (Luke Barker), Elsa (Ksenia Devriendt), Ragna (Florence Baker), Ben (Samuel D Anderson), Helen (Gwen Currant), Joan (Sade McNichols-Thomas), and Corbinian (Andrei Hozoc), all dressed in gender-neutral pale yellow polo shirts, beige skorts, and purple knee socks, gathering insect-like chairs for a Conscious Eating class, led by recently hired instructor Ms Novak (Mia Wasikowska). Ms Dorset (Sidse Babett Knudsen), the head mistress of this elite and very expensive international boarding school, is well-meaning and oblivious of...
- 3/14/2024
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Few sacred cows emerge unscathed from director Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero. No matter where audiences sit on the political spectrum, they’re liable find something discomfiting, if not enraging, in the film. Hausner and co-writer Géraldine Bajard can be applauded for the inclusivity of their derision, which is hostile to all forms of complacency. Then again, maybe it’s too easy to toss people and ideas so indiscriminately into the vat of irony while defending nothing, potentially leaving the viewer at a tiresome, cynical impasse.
This caustic satire follows a group of students at a private high school who sign up for a nutrition course taught by Ms. Novak (Mia Wasikowska), who’s hired at the recommendation of the parent board. Ms. Novak teaches—or rather, preaches—the doctrine of “conscious eating.” Each student has their reasons for enrolling: Helen (Gwen Currant) to protect the environment by cutting down on consumption,...
This caustic satire follows a group of students at a private high school who sign up for a nutrition course taught by Ms. Novak (Mia Wasikowska), who’s hired at the recommendation of the parent board. Ms. Novak teaches—or rather, preaches—the doctrine of “conscious eating.” Each student has their reasons for enrolling: Helen (Gwen Currant) to protect the environment by cutting down on consumption,...
- 3/9/2024
- by William Repass
- Slant Magazine
Featuring "Kannosei Liberation" by saji and "Sora ni Shimeyu" by Watashi Kobayashi, respectively, the creditless versions of dark fantasy anime Ragna Crimson 's opening and ending theme sequences for its second half are now available to watch below. Related: Solo Leveling Anime Creditless Opening and Ending Videos Now Streaming Based on the manga by Daiki Kobayashi, Ragna Crimson is directed by Ken Takahashi at studio Silver Link., with series composition by Deko Akao ( The Dungeon of Black Company ), character designs by Shinpei Aoki ( Wise Man's Grandchild creature designer) and music by Koji Fujimoto ( The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! ). Square Enix, which publishes the manga's official English version, describes the first volume as such: In this action-packed dark fantasy, humanity lives under the threat of annihilation by immensely powerful dragons. The dragon hunter Ragna embarks on a revenge-fueled quest to eliminate that threat once and for all! Dragon hunters:...
- 1/13/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
Welcome to a thoughtful exploration of Ragna Crimson, an anime series that entered the fray with dragons at its heart and a prodigy at its core. It’s a tale of a young dragon hunter, Leonica, and her assistant Ragna, who confronts an ominous future where his companion faces death. With such a gripping premise, it’s perplexing to see the show struggle with ratings. Here, we’ll dissect the potential reasons behind this conundrum, keeping our feet firmly in the realm of evidence and analyses. Visibility Hindered by Marketing Missteps One might ponder if Ragna Crimson became obscured in the shadows due...
- 12/4/2023
- by Steve Delikson
- TVovermind.com
In Club Zero, the students of a radical nutrition class are taught the benefits of eating consciously––if they choose to eat at all. It’s the latest film from Austrian director Jessica Hausner, whose 2019 sci-fi drama Little Joe showed a similar level of concern for the things we put into our bodies. Club Zero is less a cautionary tale about eating disorders than a satire on environmental anxieties, extreme activism, and the sometimes-competitive nature of those who get swept up in it. That’s a tasty premise, but Hausner’s take is frankly a cynical one and, much like the plate of vomit that dominated headlines after the film’s premiere last week in Cannes, it leaves a bad taste in one’s mouth.
On the plus side, Club Zero welcomes the elusive Mia Wasikowska back to the screen. And as anyone who has watched her over the years can attest,...
On the plus side, Club Zero welcomes the elusive Mia Wasikowska back to the screen. And as anyone who has watched her over the years can attest,...
- 5/26/2023
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Bleak, clean spaces arranged in ominously geometrical order: Jessica Hausner’s eye for threatening design was destined to alight, sooner or later, on a boarding school. Our first glimpse of the expensive English boarding school for talented teenagers is from somewhere on the ceiling, from where we watch students in a sporty pan-gender uniform – long shorts and shirts in a sickly acid green, surely the color of nausea – moving stackable plastic chairs to form a circle.
Miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska) stands out in her warm rust trousers and orange polo. She is in the school at the instigation of the parents’ association to teach an elective on nutrition. Her focus is “conscious eating,” a focus the patrician headmistress Miss Dorset (Sidse Babett Knudsen) thinks could benefit everyone, including her. Yes, she will accept a packet of Miss Novak’s “fasting tea.” She will skip her customary cake. We could all do better,...
Miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska) stands out in her warm rust trousers and orange polo. She is in the school at the instigation of the parents’ association to teach an elective on nutrition. Her focus is “conscious eating,” a focus the patrician headmistress Miss Dorset (Sidse Babett Knudsen) thinks could benefit everyone, including her. Yes, she will accept a packet of Miss Novak’s “fasting tea.” She will skip her customary cake. We could all do better,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
Jessica Hausner, the director of the supremely audacious and disturbing eating-disorder thriller “Club Zero”, has the potential to be an important filmmaker. Her last movie, “Little Joe” (2019), a sci-fi creep-out about a sinister strain of houseplant, was really a dark-as-midnight parable of the psychotropic-drug era. “Club Zero” won’t be for everyone, but Hausner, channeling some combination of Hitchcock and Cronenberg and “Village of the Damned” and the Todd Haynes of “Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story,” has now made an even more gripping and provocative mind-fuck.
“Club Zero” is set at an elite British boarding school, where seven students, in the opening scene, sit around in a circle led by Miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska), the school’s new nutrition teacher. Each of the students says something about why he or she wants to eat better — to save the planet, to lose weight or shed body fat, to fight addictive junk-food consumerism.
“Club Zero” is set at an elite British boarding school, where seven students, in the opening scene, sit around in a circle led by Miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska), the school’s new nutrition teacher. Each of the students says something about why he or she wants to eat better — to save the planet, to lose weight or shed body fat, to fight addictive junk-food consumerism.
- 5/22/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
To celebrate the release of Furia, we spoke with lead actors Ine Marie Wilmann and Pal Sverre Hagen about the show.
Furia revolves around Asgier and Ragna, two cops who are investigating the rise of far-right violence that is spreading across their small town.
We spoke with Ine about the difficulties of researching such extremism and we also spoke with Pal about developing the core father and daughter relationship.
Viaplay arrives in the US on the 22nd of February, 2023.
The post Furia Interview – Ine Marie Wilmann & Pål Sverre Hagen on a thrilling new series & their working partnership appeared first on HeyUGuys.
Furia revolves around Asgier and Ragna, two cops who are investigating the rise of far-right violence that is spreading across their small town.
We spoke with Ine about the difficulties of researching such extremism and we also spoke with Pal about developing the core father and daughter relationship.
Viaplay arrives in the US on the 22nd of February, 2023.
The post Furia Interview – Ine Marie Wilmann & Pål Sverre Hagen on a thrilling new series & their working partnership appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 2/23/2023
- by Sarah Cook
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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