We’ve become rather outspoken fans of Swedish director Patrik Eklund - the man behind the award winning short Situation Frank of a year or so ago and the currently-on-the-circuit Instead Of Abrakadabra - and so we are very pleased to have the first, rough trailer for his next work, There’s Been An Accident.
Eklund is one of those rare people with a gift for simple, observational humor. He’s a director who can drop an odd person into a completely bland and normal situation and work the scenario for slyly understated humor while still keeping his characters remarkably grounded and real or - as he’s proving with this one - he can do the same thing while taking a bunch of very normal people and making the situation extreme.
As I understand it this is essentially raw footage so the final quality will be higher but it...
Eklund is one of those rare people with a gift for simple, observational humor. He’s a director who can drop an odd person into a completely bland and normal situation and work the scenario for slyly understated humor while still keeping his characters remarkably grounded and real or - as he’s proving with this one - he can do the same thing while taking a bunch of very normal people and making the situation extreme.
As I understand it this is essentially raw footage so the final quality will be higher but it...
- 1/30/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
When Swedish director Patrik Eklund sent us the opening scene of his acclaimed short film Situation Frank he also included a little something else: the trailer and a still from his new film, Instead of Abrakadabra.
Tomas is a little bit too old to still be living with his parents, but his dream of becoming a magician leaves him with no other option. Bengt, his father, just wants him to grow up and get a proper job. At dad’s birthday party Tomas gives his parents, the birthday guests and first and foremost the beautiful new neighbor Monica a bizarre magic show.
Eklund is one of the best things going in Sweden today and, yep, the trailer for this makes me giggle more than a little bit. Find the trailer in the Twitch Player below the break and hit the link below for the still.
Tomas is a little bit too old to still be living with his parents, but his dream of becoming a magician leaves him with no other option. Bengt, his father, just wants him to grow up and get a proper job. At dad’s birthday party Tomas gives his parents, the birthday guests and first and foremost the beautiful new neighbor Monica a bizarre magic show.
Eklund is one of the best things going in Sweden today and, yep, the trailer for this makes me giggle more than a little bit. Find the trailer in the Twitch Player below the break and hit the link below for the still.
- 9/27/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
Every year the Worldwide Short Film Festival here in Toronto begins with a program of award winning short films from around the globe, films that have been racking up acclaim wherever they play. Needless to say it’s a really, really good collection of films and at the 2008 edition of the festival my favorite of the lot was Patrik Eklund’s Situation Frank. A film that dances along the tricky line between comedy and tragedy Situation Frank is the story of a man dealing with his wife’s death and the friend who tries to help him through it. After the evening wrapped up I immediately looked Eklund up and fired him an email asking if he had a trailer for the film. He had a clip, it turned out, but nothing in any format ready to send out, though he’d be happy to convert things once he finished...
- 9/27/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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