Exclusive: Picture Tree International (Pti) has acquired world sales rights for A Quiet Resilience, the debut feature of rising Swedish, fraternal directorial duo Gustav and David Bengtsson.
The German sales company will unveil the film at the Cannes Marché du Film in May and is aiming for a festival launch later this year.
The drama revolves around a teenager grappling with his fractured family dynamics and the pressures of illegal boxing matches orchestrated by his father.
Amidst these struggles, his quest for meaning and connection exemplifies an indomitable resilience and offers a poignant and authentic examination of contemporary and generational vulnerabilities.
The Bengtsson brothers, who serve as directors and producers of the film, originate from the picturesque Swedish coastal town of Varberg.
A Quiet Resilience is their first feature after a series of well-travelled shorts including Flying Free (2015), Torasidis Last Masterpiece (2021), starring Marc-Jean Barr and Leif Edlund, and Florian (2022) featuring...
The German sales company will unveil the film at the Cannes Marché du Film in May and is aiming for a festival launch later this year.
The drama revolves around a teenager grappling with his fractured family dynamics and the pressures of illegal boxing matches orchestrated by his father.
Amidst these struggles, his quest for meaning and connection exemplifies an indomitable resilience and offers a poignant and authentic examination of contemporary and generational vulnerabilities.
The Bengtsson brothers, who serve as directors and producers of the film, originate from the picturesque Swedish coastal town of Varberg.
A Quiet Resilience is their first feature after a series of well-travelled shorts including Flying Free (2015), Torasidis Last Masterpiece (2021), starring Marc-Jean Barr and Leif Edlund, and Florian (2022) featuring...
- 4/22/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Ana de Armas’ green eyes look incredible. Pic credit: @ana_d_armas/Instagram
Ana de Armas looked incredible in a thigh-skimming dress.
The beautiful Cuban and Spanish actress posed for the camera for an issue with AnOther Magazine.
In this shoot, we saw de Armas looking classy and sexy at the same time.
She wore a white sweater with the sleeves rolled up, and she added a black dress on top for contrast.
The actress showed off her legs by lifting up her dress and revealing a pair of black tights.
Her caramel hair was parted to the side, styled in curls falling on the side of her face.
Ana de Armas looks incredible in sweaters and tights
She accessorized this look with some black gloves and some silver diamond bracelets.
In another picture, we saw her sitting wearing the same tights, this time with a big bright red sweater,...
Ana de Armas looked incredible in a thigh-skimming dress.
The beautiful Cuban and Spanish actress posed for the camera for an issue with AnOther Magazine.
In this shoot, we saw de Armas looking classy and sexy at the same time.
She wore a white sweater with the sleeves rolled up, and she added a black dress on top for contrast.
The actress showed off her legs by lifting up her dress and revealing a pair of black tights.
Her caramel hair was parted to the side, styled in curls falling on the side of her face.
Ana de Armas looks incredible in sweaters and tights
She accessorized this look with some black gloves and some silver diamond bracelets.
In another picture, we saw her sitting wearing the same tights, this time with a big bright red sweater,...
- 9/23/2022
- by Barbara Gutierrez
- Monsters and Critics
Nimby
Finland’s Teemu Nikki scored an international breakthrough with his sophomore film, the sardonic Euthanizer. He reteams with his producer Jani Poso for German-Finnish co-prod Nimby (Not in My Back Yard) and actress Hannamaija Nikander, who has been featured in several of Nikku’s shorts as well as his past two features, Lovemilla (2015) and Euthanizer (2017). Newcomers Susanna Pukkila and Almila Bagriacik will star in the lead roles, with other supporting cast including Elias Westerberg, Matti Onnismaa (of Euthanizer), Mari Rantasila, Antti Reini, Leila Abdullah and Stephan Schad.…...
Finland’s Teemu Nikki scored an international breakthrough with his sophomore film, the sardonic Euthanizer. He reteams with his producer Jani Poso for German-Finnish co-prod Nimby (Not in My Back Yard) and actress Hannamaija Nikander, who has been featured in several of Nikku’s shorts as well as his past two features, Lovemilla (2015) and Euthanizer (2017). Newcomers Susanna Pukkila and Almila Bagriacik will star in the lead roles, with other supporting cast including Elias Westerberg, Matti Onnismaa (of Euthanizer), Mari Rantasila, Antti Reini, Leila Abdullah and Stephan Schad.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: 45 Years producer Tristan Goligher on roster.
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to former Screen International Star Of Tomorrow Alex Taylor’s directorial debut, Spaceship.
The distributor is planning a limited theatrical release in November, followed by DVD and VoD, for the film that had its world premiere at SXSW.
Spaceship centres on teenage cyber-goth Lucidia, whose mother died mysteriously seven years ago in the family swimming pool. Her father, Gabriel, is an archaeologist who can’t move on.
When Lucidia disappears in an apparent alien abduction, Gabriel is forced to confront her strange outsider friends and meets Tegan, a girl obsessed with unicorns and black holes. The story is told from multiple points of view, both teenage and adult.
Alexa Davies, Tallulah Haddon, Lara Peake, Lucian Charles Collier, Antti Reini, and singer-songwriter Annabel Allum star.
Spaceship was developed, financed and produced under Creative England’s iFeatures banner, supported by [link...
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to former Screen International Star Of Tomorrow Alex Taylor’s directorial debut, Spaceship.
The distributor is planning a limited theatrical release in November, followed by DVD and VoD, for the film that had its world premiere at SXSW.
Spaceship centres on teenage cyber-goth Lucidia, whose mother died mysteriously seven years ago in the family swimming pool. Her father, Gabriel, is an archaeologist who can’t move on.
When Lucidia disappears in an apparent alien abduction, Gabriel is forced to confront her strange outsider friends and meets Tegan, a girl obsessed with unicorns and black holes. The story is told from multiple points of view, both teenage and adult.
Alexa Davies, Tallulah Haddon, Lara Peake, Lucian Charles Collier, Antti Reini, and singer-songwriter Annabel Allum star.
Spaceship was developed, financed and produced under Creative England’s iFeatures banner, supported by [link...
- 6/29/2017
- ScreenDaily
Author: Zehra Phelan
With outings at last year’s London Film Festival and its exultant reception at SXSW, writer/director Alex Taylor’s feature length debut, Spaceship, is obviously very close to his heart. A journey of a neon psychedelic haze of teenage confusion of the unconventional kind, Taylor’s coming of age story kicks the selfie-loving social media crazy teenage population to one side to give those classed as outsiders their time in the spotlight. Along with unicorns and black holes.
Somewhat experimental, the outcry of attention-seeking and a longing to find where these weird cluster of teenagers belong in this world lay heavy on the narrative. It is a fresh, fragmented flurry which flits between a father frantically looking for his missing daughter whilst being sucked into the abyss of her friends’ bizarre, out of this world, mist of delirium. Thrown in for good measure, Taylor uses clips...
With outings at last year’s London Film Festival and its exultant reception at SXSW, writer/director Alex Taylor’s feature length debut, Spaceship, is obviously very close to his heart. A journey of a neon psychedelic haze of teenage confusion of the unconventional kind, Taylor’s coming of age story kicks the selfie-loving social media crazy teenage population to one side to give those classed as outsiders their time in the spotlight. Along with unicorns and black holes.
Somewhat experimental, the outcry of attention-seeking and a longing to find where these weird cluster of teenagers belong in this world lay heavy on the narrative. It is a fresh, fragmented flurry which flits between a father frantically looking for his missing daughter whilst being sucked into the abyss of her friends’ bizarre, out of this world, mist of delirium. Thrown in for good measure, Taylor uses clips...
- 5/18/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The story of a bunch of dreamily self-admiring friends hanging out in the suburbs and talking about aliens is oppressively self-indulgent
This film stars Alexa Davies, and no one who saw her as Aretha in Caitlin Moran’s great Channel 4 comedy Raised By Wolves could fail to be a fan. But in the middle of this insufferable film I was longing for Aretha’s mum Della, played by Rebekah Staton, to come on and give all the dire emo self-harmers here a piece of her mind. It is so oppressively self-indulgent that it feels like getting a knitting needle slowly jammed into your ear canal.
Davis plays Lucidia, a dreamily self-admiring teenager hanging out with a bunch of other dreamily self-admiring teenagers in a suburb close to an army base. They are into Twilight vampirism, eyeliner, Bdsm-lite and hanging around talking interminably about aliens and life on other worlds.
This film stars Alexa Davies, and no one who saw her as Aretha in Caitlin Moran’s great Channel 4 comedy Raised By Wolves could fail to be a fan. But in the middle of this insufferable film I was longing for Aretha’s mum Della, played by Rebekah Staton, to come on and give all the dire emo self-harmers here a piece of her mind. It is so oppressively self-indulgent that it feels like getting a knitting needle slowly jammed into your ear canal.
Davis plays Lucidia, a dreamily self-admiring teenager hanging out with a bunch of other dreamily self-admiring teenagers in a suburb close to an army base. They are into Twilight vampirism, eyeliner, Bdsm-lite and hanging around talking interminably about aliens and life on other worlds.
- 5/18/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Author: Zehra Phelan
If you like your coming-of-age stories with a twist of psychedelia and completely bonkers the upcoming film Spaceship, judging from the trailer could be right up your street.
Related: Take a look at all our British Film articles here.
From the trailer, without even reading the synopsis, you would have no idea whatsoever what to expect or what the film is about. A bunch of teenage outsiders prance around as if they have just overdone that bong sitting in the corner while donning fluorescent make-up all whilst dreaming of being abducted by aliens and disappearing through black holes while riding on unicorns. Come on – what’s not to be completely intrigued by from that?
The film’s ensemble cast includes Alexa Davies (A Brilliant Young Mind, Raised by Wolves) who was nominated for the Evening Standard New West End Company Award for Best Actress for her role in the film,...
If you like your coming-of-age stories with a twist of psychedelia and completely bonkers the upcoming film Spaceship, judging from the trailer could be right up your street.
Related: Take a look at all our British Film articles here.
From the trailer, without even reading the synopsis, you would have no idea whatsoever what to expect or what the film is about. A bunch of teenage outsiders prance around as if they have just overdone that bong sitting in the corner while donning fluorescent make-up all whilst dreaming of being abducted by aliens and disappearing through black holes while riding on unicorns. Come on – what’s not to be completely intrigued by from that?
The film’s ensemble cast includes Alexa Davies (A Brilliant Young Mind, Raised by Wolves) who was nominated for the Evening Standard New West End Company Award for Best Actress for her role in the film,...
- 4/20/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.
Spaceship
I’m not much of a fan of experimental films, but there’s a quality of dreamy questing in Spaceship, the feature debut of British writer-director Alex Taylor, that I found intriguingly wistful. The teenagers who live around an army base in suburban England whisper stories about alien abductions, and then Lucidia (Alexa Davies) goes missing in a dazzle of colors and flashing lights, as witnessed by a friend. Her lonely widower father, Gabriel (Antti Reini), searches for her and her friends speculate about where she has gone, but this isn’t a science-fiction mystery, and no one seems particularly worried about her. The plotlessness and general lack of specific response to Lucidia’s disappearance becomes an avant-garde fug that frustrated me, but I quite enjoyed the overall sense of Lucidia’s friends and...
Spaceship
I’m not much of a fan of experimental films, but there’s a quality of dreamy questing in Spaceship, the feature debut of British writer-director Alex Taylor, that I found intriguingly wistful. The teenagers who live around an army base in suburban England whisper stories about alien abductions, and then Lucidia (Alexa Davies) goes missing in a dazzle of colors and flashing lights, as witnessed by a friend. Her lonely widower father, Gabriel (Antti Reini), searches for her and her friends speculate about where she has gone, but this isn’t a science-fiction mystery, and no one seems particularly worried about her. The plotlessness and general lack of specific response to Lucidia’s disappearance becomes an avant-garde fug that frustrated me, but I quite enjoyed the overall sense of Lucidia’s friends and...
- 10/4/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
19 year old Alexa Davies leads the cast in Spaceship, which has just started shooting in Farnborough and Guildford, Surrey.
Written and directed by Alex Taylor, Spaceship tells the story of a father's search for his daughter after an apparent alien abduction.
Alexa plays Lucidia, alongside Finish actor Antti Reini as Gabriel. Alexa (represented by Bwh), one of Screenterrier's Faces to Watch 2014 will next be seen alongside Asa Butterfield in up coming feature X + Y, and has just completed filming on the first series of the Caitlin Moran family comedy series Raised By Wolves.
The film also stars Lara Peake (represented by Hamilton Hodell) as Tegan. Lara can currently be seen alongside George Mackay in Duane Hopkins feature Bypass.
They are joined by two newcomers, 20 year old Lucian Charles Collier (represented by Bananafish Management) from Leeds as Luke, and Tallulah Haddon from London.
“The story has gripped us all in a...
Written and directed by Alex Taylor, Spaceship tells the story of a father's search for his daughter after an apparent alien abduction.
Alexa plays Lucidia, alongside Finish actor Antti Reini as Gabriel. Alexa (represented by Bwh), one of Screenterrier's Faces to Watch 2014 will next be seen alongside Asa Butterfield in up coming feature X + Y, and has just completed filming on the first series of the Caitlin Moran family comedy series Raised By Wolves.
The film also stars Lara Peake (represented by Hamilton Hodell) as Tegan. Lara can currently be seen alongside George Mackay in Duane Hopkins feature Bypass.
They are joined by two newcomers, 20 year old Lucian Charles Collier (represented by Bananafish Management) from Leeds as Luke, and Tallulah Haddon from London.
“The story has gripped us all in a...
- 10/31/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
New films on Screenbase this week include sci-fi film The Call Up, Talulah Riley’s Scottish Mussel, and iFeatures’ Spaceship.
UK action sci-fi The Call Up is set to begin shooting Nov 10 in Birmingham, UK.
The Charles Barker film follows a group of online gamers who are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality game, but what starts out like a dream encounter takes a turn for the sinister when the stakes are fatally raised.
Max Deacon (Into the Storm, Hatfields & McCoys) takes the lead role and is joined by a cast of up-and-comers including Morfydd Clark (Madame Bovary), Ali Cook (The Anomaly), and Parker Sawyers (Monsters: Dark Continent).
Directed by Charles Barker from his own Brit List screenplay, the film is produced by Matthew James Wilkinson (Stigma Films), John Giwa-Amu (Red&Black Films) with Alan Martin (The Machine) to exec produce.
Talulah Riley’s directorial debut
Shooting is underway in Glasgow on ‘eco-rom com’ Scottish Mussel...
UK action sci-fi The Call Up is set to begin shooting Nov 10 in Birmingham, UK.
The Charles Barker film follows a group of online gamers who are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality game, but what starts out like a dream encounter takes a turn for the sinister when the stakes are fatally raised.
Max Deacon (Into the Storm, Hatfields & McCoys) takes the lead role and is joined by a cast of up-and-comers including Morfydd Clark (Madame Bovary), Ali Cook (The Anomaly), and Parker Sawyers (Monsters: Dark Continent).
Directed by Charles Barker from his own Brit List screenplay, the film is produced by Matthew James Wilkinson (Stigma Films), John Giwa-Amu (Red&Black Films) with Alan Martin (The Machine) to exec produce.
Talulah Riley’s directorial debut
Shooting is underway in Glasgow on ‘eco-rom com’ Scottish Mussel...
- 10/31/2014
- ScreenDaily
New films on Screenbase this week include sci-fi film The Call Up, Talulah Riley’s Scottish Mussel, and iFeatures’ Spaceship.
UK action sci-fi The Call Up is set to begin shooting Nov 10 in Birmingham, UK.
The Charles Barker film follows a group of online gamers who are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality game, but what starts out like a dream encounter takes a turn for the sinister when the stakes are fatally raised.
Max Deacon (Into the Storm, Hatfields & McCoys) takes the lead role and is joined by a cast of up-and-comers including Morfydd Clark (Madame Bovary), Ali Cook (The Anomaly), and Parker Sawyers (Monsters: Dark Continent).
Directed by Charles Barker from his own Brit List screenplay, the film is produced by Matthew James Wilkinson (Stigma Films), John Giwa-Amu (Red&Black Films) with Alan Martin (The Machine) to exec produce.
Talulah Riley’s directorial debut
Shooting is underway in Glasgow on ‘eco-rom com’ Scottish Mussel...
UK action sci-fi The Call Up is set to begin shooting Nov 10 in Birmingham, UK.
The Charles Barker film follows a group of online gamers who are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality game, but what starts out like a dream encounter takes a turn for the sinister when the stakes are fatally raised.
Max Deacon (Into the Storm, Hatfields & McCoys) takes the lead role and is joined by a cast of up-and-comers including Morfydd Clark (Madame Bovary), Ali Cook (The Anomaly), and Parker Sawyers (Monsters: Dark Continent).
Directed by Charles Barker from his own Brit List screenplay, the film is produced by Matthew James Wilkinson (Stigma Films), John Giwa-Amu (Red&Black Films) with Alan Martin (The Machine) to exec produce.
Talulah Riley’s directorial debut
Shooting is underway in Glasgow on ‘eco-rom com’ Scottish Mussel...
- 10/31/2014
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Principal production begins in Surrey on iFeatures’ latest venture.
Writer and director Alex Taylor’s Spaceship begins principal photography this week in Farnborough and Guilford, Surrey.
Produced by Nicola Bowen and Olivier Kaempfer with Belly Productions and Parkville Pictures, Spaceship tells the story of Gabriel’s search for his daughter after an apparent alien abduction.
“The story has gripped us all in a collective dream of what it is to be different and to want our own personal world in which we can be who we want,” said Taylor.
The film stars Antti Reini (The Man Without a Past), Alexa Davies (X+Y), Lara Peake (Bypass), Lucian Charles Collier (The Only One Who Knows You’re Afraid) and Tallulah Haddon.
The film was developed through IFeatures, Creative England’s flagship low budge feature film initiative, which runs in partnership with the BFI Film Fund, BBC Films and Creative Skillset.
“iFeatures is all...
Writer and director Alex Taylor’s Spaceship begins principal photography this week in Farnborough and Guilford, Surrey.
Produced by Nicola Bowen and Olivier Kaempfer with Belly Productions and Parkville Pictures, Spaceship tells the story of Gabriel’s search for his daughter after an apparent alien abduction.
“The story has gripped us all in a collective dream of what it is to be different and to want our own personal world in which we can be who we want,” said Taylor.
The film stars Antti Reini (The Man Without a Past), Alexa Davies (X+Y), Lara Peake (Bypass), Lucian Charles Collier (The Only One Who Knows You’re Afraid) and Tallulah Haddon.
The film was developed through IFeatures, Creative England’s flagship low budge feature film initiative, which runs in partnership with the BFI Film Fund, BBC Films and Creative Skillset.
“iFeatures is all...
- 10/30/2014
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Production begins in Surrey on crime-comedy.
Writer and director Alex Taylor’s Spaceship begins principal photography this week in Farnborough and Guilford, Surrey.
Produced by Nicola Bowen and Olivier Kaempfer with Belly Productions and Parkville Pictures, Spaceship tells the story of Gabriel’s search for his daughter after an apparent alien abduction.
“The story has gripped us all in a collective dream of what it is to be different and to want our own personal world in which we can be who we want,” said Taylor.
The film stars Antti Reini (The Man Without a Past), Alexa Davies (X+Y), Lara Peake (Bypass), Lucian Charles Collier (The Only One Who Knows You’re Afraid) and Tallulah Haddon.
The film was developed through IFeatures, Creative England’s flagship low budge feature film initiative, which runs in partnership with the BFI Film Fund, BBC Films and Creative Skillset.
“iFeatures is all about supporting talented emerging filmmakers and Alex...
Writer and director Alex Taylor’s Spaceship begins principal photography this week in Farnborough and Guilford, Surrey.
Produced by Nicola Bowen and Olivier Kaempfer with Belly Productions and Parkville Pictures, Spaceship tells the story of Gabriel’s search for his daughter after an apparent alien abduction.
“The story has gripped us all in a collective dream of what it is to be different and to want our own personal world in which we can be who we want,” said Taylor.
The film stars Antti Reini (The Man Without a Past), Alexa Davies (X+Y), Lara Peake (Bypass), Lucian Charles Collier (The Only One Who Knows You’re Afraid) and Tallulah Haddon.
The film was developed through IFeatures, Creative England’s flagship low budge feature film initiative, which runs in partnership with the BFI Film Fund, BBC Films and Creative Skillset.
“iFeatures is all about supporting talented emerging filmmakers and Alex...
- 10/30/2014
- ScreenDaily
Directed by: Marko Makilaakso
Written by: Marko Makilaakso
Starring: Mikko Leppilampi, Andrew Tiernan, Samuel Vauramo, Jouko Ahola, Antti Reini, Magdalena Gorska
The zombie movie apocalypse continues with War of the Dead, an action film/zombie hybrid with some surprisingly strong cinematography, solid performances and several other positive aspects the target audience will not especially care about.
During WWII, along the Russian border, Nazi scientists hide away in a secret bunker and perform “anti-death” experiments on captured Russian soldiers. When the test subjects turn into crazed, flesh-eating zombies with superhuman strength, the experiments are abandoned and the “evidence” is buried in a mass grave. Two years later an American and Finnish task force led by Captain Stone (Andrew Tiernan) is recruited to find and destroy the Nazi bunker. They face off with German soldiers and several men on both sides are killed or severely wounded.
The remaining members of the task force continue on their mission,...
Written by: Marko Makilaakso
Starring: Mikko Leppilampi, Andrew Tiernan, Samuel Vauramo, Jouko Ahola, Antti Reini, Magdalena Gorska
The zombie movie apocalypse continues with War of the Dead, an action film/zombie hybrid with some surprisingly strong cinematography, solid performances and several other positive aspects the target audience will not especially care about.
During WWII, along the Russian border, Nazi scientists hide away in a secret bunker and perform “anti-death” experiments on captured Russian soldiers. When the test subjects turn into crazed, flesh-eating zombies with superhuman strength, the experiments are abandoned and the “evidence” is buried in a mass grave. Two years later an American and Finnish task force led by Captain Stone (Andrew Tiernan) is recruited to find and destroy the Nazi bunker. They face off with German soldiers and several men on both sides are killed or severely wounded.
The remaining members of the task force continue on their mission,...
- 2/10/2013
- by Bradley Harding
- Planet Fury
Looks like it's going to be a big year for zombie apocalypses once again and writer/director Marko Makilaakso's Lithuanian zombie effort 'War of the Dead' (also known as 'Stone's War') looks to be leading the flesh-hungry pack. The flick is set to premiere finally at this years Toronto After Dark Film Festival and it's also scored a new festival poster and trailer. Andrew Tiernan, Mikko Leppilampi, Samuli Vauramo, Jouko Ahola, Mark Wingett, Andreas Wilson, Antti Reini and the sexy Magdalena Gorska (below) all star. Check out the plot, one-sheet and new trailer below....
- 10/11/2011
- Horror Asylum
Love zombies and war!? Then you're in luck. No...it's not 'World War Z', it's Lithuanian horror flick 'War of the Dead' (also known as 'Stone's War'). The new action zombie feature from writer/director Marko Makilaakso, which he co-wrote along with Barr B. Potter, has been around for a while now and finally it appears to be ramping up towards an actual release! A new, albeit brief, ad for the movie has appeared over at the official Facebook page which you can check out below revealing 2011 as the release year. The movie stars Andrew Tiernan, Mikko Leppilampi, Samuli Vauramo, Jouko Ahola, Mark Wingett, Andreas Wilson, Antti Reini and hottie Magdalena Gorska - who you can check out below in a cheeky and downright dirty topless pic!...
- 6/9/2011
- Horror Asylum
It's been a long time since last there was anything to report on War of the Dead (formerly Stone's War). So long in fact that we had all but written the film off. However, that's the thing about the dead; eventually they will rise.
Over on the official War of the Dead Facebook page a couple of new videos have been posted. That indicates good things, right? We hope so. Dig on them below.
Marko Makilaasko directs. Andrew Tiernan, Jouko Ahola, Mikko Leppilampi, Samuel Vauramo, Mark Wingett, Andreas Wilson, Antti Reini and Magdalena Gorska star.
Synopsis
March 1942. Captain Martin Stone (Andrew Tiernan - 300, The Pianist) leads an American unit on a mission to destroy an enemy bunker, joining forces with an elite platoon of Finnish soldiers that includes Cpt. Niemi (Jouko Ahola - Kingdom of Heaven) and Ltnt. Laasko (Mikko Leppilampi). The troops are torn apart by the same enemy...
Over on the official War of the Dead Facebook page a couple of new videos have been posted. That indicates good things, right? We hope so. Dig on them below.
Marko Makilaasko directs. Andrew Tiernan, Jouko Ahola, Mikko Leppilampi, Samuel Vauramo, Mark Wingett, Andreas Wilson, Antti Reini and Magdalena Gorska star.
Synopsis
March 1942. Captain Martin Stone (Andrew Tiernan - 300, The Pianist) leads an American unit on a mission to destroy an enemy bunker, joining forces with an elite platoon of Finnish soldiers that includes Cpt. Niemi (Jouko Ahola - Kingdom of Heaven) and Ltnt. Laasko (Mikko Leppilampi). The troops are torn apart by the same enemy...
- 6/8/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- ''Il Capitano'' is Swedish director Jan Troell's return from years of documentary work to the fact-based fiction that brought him worldwide fame and theatrical distribution in 1971-73 with ''The Emigrants'' and ''The New Land'' (later TV-serialized in the United States as ''The Emigrant Saga''), and Hollywood assignments (''Zandy's Bride, '' 1974, and ''Hurricane, '' 1979).
Troell, with playwright Per Olov Enquist (of Broadway reknown for Strindberg-inspired ''Night of the Tribades, '' 1975), has fashioned a highly personal look at the acts, circumstance and backgrounds of a murder by gun and knife of three utterly innocent victims in a churchyard in Northern Sweden on July 3, 1988.
''Il Capitano'' has brought Cannes and Berlin festival representatives to Stockholm seeking Troell's film as a 1992 competition entry.
There are plenty of good reasons for this, and they herald triumphs for the film on the festival circuit as well as on the art cinema circuit everywhere. An added advantage: the dialog is so sparse, it will require a minimum of subtitling.
Combining edge-of-the-seat suspense with fluid cinematic movement, the film focuses on the two killers, a young vagrant styling himself ''Il Capitano'' and his even younger girlfriend. Through beautiful Northern Swedish landscapes of forests, rivers and villages, the film manages to avoid cheap thrills and gore as well as any hint of finger-pointing and social-psychologizing.
There are flashbacks to explain how the youngsters originally met, he a school dropout from a broken home, she from a culturally refined family. But mostly, Jari and Minna are seen as two individual personalities, drawn to each other by an inner sense of a destiny to be shared.
In one stolen car after another, the couple journey south from their native Finland on a thieving expedition that has hippiedom capital Amsterdam as its rather abstract goal. En route, they pick up rabbits as back-seat pets, drink and make love, stumble upon a shotgun and ammo and kill, without hesitation or remorse, a father, mother and son who unexpectedly confront them in the remote countryside.
The actual killings are seen only in an oblique way, but this adds to rather than subtracts from the suspense at a time when the audience has just settled down to a grudging liking of the two headstrong, yet powerless pawns of fate. Of the murdered family we are told only briefly in a police reconstruction. Throughout, Troell is a master cinematographer as well as director and editor.
''Il Capitano'' is every bit as strong in thriller melodrama values as ''Bonnie & Clyde, '' with which it will inevitably be compared. But the tension of Troell's film is heightened by the subdued way in which it is told rather than through explosions of visually shocking violence.
The shocks may be analyzed by some as a rumble of the volcano of our times.
The playing in the leads by near-amateurs Antti Reini and Maria Heisanen is strongly moving and totally convincing as their young faces reflect alternately hot tempers and soft submission, and as it gets more and more doubtful whether he or she is the real ''capitano'' steering their actions.
The real-life murderers were captured by police on a train passing through Denmark. They were brought to trial and sentenced to life-terms in Sweden. While ''Il Capitano'' was in production, a media debate accused Troell of ''exploitation.'' As the finished film stands, it is the general Swedish consensus that no tragedy could have been told with greater artistic beauty and strength.
IL CAPITANO
Pan Film Sweden, Polyphon Germany
Director-cinematographer-editor Jan Troell
Producer Goran Zetterberg
Screenplay Per Olov Enquist
Music Lars Akerlund, Sebastian Oberg
Color
Starring: Maria Heiskanen, Antti Reini
Running time -- 110 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
Troell, with playwright Per Olov Enquist (of Broadway reknown for Strindberg-inspired ''Night of the Tribades, '' 1975), has fashioned a highly personal look at the acts, circumstance and backgrounds of a murder by gun and knife of three utterly innocent victims in a churchyard in Northern Sweden on July 3, 1988.
''Il Capitano'' has brought Cannes and Berlin festival representatives to Stockholm seeking Troell's film as a 1992 competition entry.
There are plenty of good reasons for this, and they herald triumphs for the film on the festival circuit as well as on the art cinema circuit everywhere. An added advantage: the dialog is so sparse, it will require a minimum of subtitling.
Combining edge-of-the-seat suspense with fluid cinematic movement, the film focuses on the two killers, a young vagrant styling himself ''Il Capitano'' and his even younger girlfriend. Through beautiful Northern Swedish landscapes of forests, rivers and villages, the film manages to avoid cheap thrills and gore as well as any hint of finger-pointing and social-psychologizing.
There are flashbacks to explain how the youngsters originally met, he a school dropout from a broken home, she from a culturally refined family. But mostly, Jari and Minna are seen as two individual personalities, drawn to each other by an inner sense of a destiny to be shared.
In one stolen car after another, the couple journey south from their native Finland on a thieving expedition that has hippiedom capital Amsterdam as its rather abstract goal. En route, they pick up rabbits as back-seat pets, drink and make love, stumble upon a shotgun and ammo and kill, without hesitation or remorse, a father, mother and son who unexpectedly confront them in the remote countryside.
The actual killings are seen only in an oblique way, but this adds to rather than subtracts from the suspense at a time when the audience has just settled down to a grudging liking of the two headstrong, yet powerless pawns of fate. Of the murdered family we are told only briefly in a police reconstruction. Throughout, Troell is a master cinematographer as well as director and editor.
''Il Capitano'' is every bit as strong in thriller melodrama values as ''Bonnie & Clyde, '' with which it will inevitably be compared. But the tension of Troell's film is heightened by the subdued way in which it is told rather than through explosions of visually shocking violence.
The shocks may be analyzed by some as a rumble of the volcano of our times.
The playing in the leads by near-amateurs Antti Reini and Maria Heisanen is strongly moving and totally convincing as their young faces reflect alternately hot tempers and soft submission, and as it gets more and more doubtful whether he or she is the real ''capitano'' steering their actions.
The real-life murderers were captured by police on a train passing through Denmark. They were brought to trial and sentenced to life-terms in Sweden. While ''Il Capitano'' was in production, a media debate accused Troell of ''exploitation.'' As the finished film stands, it is the general Swedish consensus that no tragedy could have been told with greater artistic beauty and strength.
IL CAPITANO
Pan Film Sweden, Polyphon Germany
Director-cinematographer-editor Jan Troell
Producer Goran Zetterberg
Screenplay Per Olov Enquist
Music Lars Akerlund, Sebastian Oberg
Color
Starring: Maria Heiskanen, Antti Reini
Running time -- 110 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 11/19/1991
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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