THE FILM
triumphant welcome to 'Last Film Festival, in Rome, In a better world won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, two awards to be added to the prestigious appointment as the official candidate of Denmark for an Oscar.
The story of the film starring Anton and Marianne, two doctors in marital crisis, and Elias, the teenage son, a victim of school bullies. The only one capable of defending it is Christian, a classmate who drags Elias in a world unknown to him. Christian Claus lives with his father, recently widowed ...
Already sold in 50 countries, including the U.S. (Sony Pictures Classics), home movie was a huge success and is the fourth collaboration Susanne Bier with Theodora, who in past seasons has distributed not covet your neighbor's wife , We Lost and After the Wedding (the latter a finalist for an Oscar in 2007).
Susanne Bier's "In a better world explores the emergence of violent reactions in children, adolescents and the difficulties of adults who, by personal example, attempt to show the way of civilized behavior, reaching "turn the other cheek." The film asks whether our culture "advanced" is the model for a better world or whether chaos is lurking under the surface of civilization. "
In a better world has the need for ethics and the charm of a parabola. A story of tears and meetings that pushes us to understand what we're alone and what we do not want to be. The plunge in violence and pain of the world, becomes a luminous journey of reconciliation. Through an unforgettable cast of actors who embody the intimacy and scope of human feelings, Susanne Bier explores our time with passion, strength and visionary civil courage.
(motivation expressed by Sergio Castellitto, the jury president of the International Festival Rome Film, film assignment to the Grand Jury Prize)
SUSANNE BIER
director
daughter of Rudy Bier, a German jew who sought refuge in Denmark during the Nazi occupation, and Henny Bier's Danish-born Russian jew and younger sister of two lawyers (one in London, the other in Copenhagen), Susanne Bier embodies the model of cosmopolitan and modern European tradition of the golden years, where directors like Siodmak, Ophuls and Wilder were looking for need or concern, inspiration beyond national borders. Susanne graduated in architecture but decided to study film abroad in London and Jerusalem. She married a director (which has a son, Gabriel), then a Swedish actor (his daughter Alice has dual nationality and is bilingual), then a musician.
His cinema fully reflect this form of freedom and space from now, with Family Matters story of incest between brother and sister, between Copenhagen and a remote village in Portugal. The film then moves to Sweden to shoot Pensionat Oskar , centered on a middle-class family in a holiday resort, where the links begin to falter when the father and husband discovers he is attracted by a lifeguard. In both films is clear that the physical is the director elsewhere to seek elsewhere a moral and sentimental, a form of displacement from the normal.
The great national success comes with The One and Only, a comedy that fails to cross the borders of Scandinavia, but Susanne attracts the attention of the industry in his country. Again we find the focus of two families, adoption issues and a girl who comes from Burkina Faso. The play runs the next Susanne in Sweden - is the story of a young sucker who dreams of singing in the Eurovision - and the title says it all: Once in a Lifetime .
is Open Hearts, however, to score the crucial international, won the FIPRESCI at the Toronto Film Festival, proving a great success in San Sebastian and launching Susanne and its star, Mads Mikkelsen star in the firmament of Europe (unfortunately the film has a very poor distribution in Italy, "cured" by E-mik). This is a heartbreaking story, in which a handsome young man is hit by a car and paralyzed for life. The accident will change the lives of others, his partner, the motorist distracted and physician treating him. In some ways Open Hearts has all the previous work of Susanne and anticipates the films you will later. As not covet your neighbor's wife, after marriage, and Things We Lost In a better world, under the magnifying glass there is never only the character-engine of the story. Action triggers more responses and the trajectory of a character changes the trajectories of the other. The physical causes of disability Nicolaj Kaas Lee as severe in Paprika Steen, the woman who hit him.
Afghanistan to not covet your neighbor's wife is the elsewhere that disrupts the life of the soldier, Ulrich Thomsen, Connie Nielsen and his wife of his brother Nikolaj Kaas Lee. When Thomsen is forced to kill his fellow soldiers in a Taliban prison camp, he unleashes a series of deaths moral, public and private. In addition to being a critical success, the film also says at the box office: work at home in America, Germany, Italy and Spain, won the Sundance Festival, San Sebastian and won a slew of national awards. Per l’industria americana, Susanne Bier è una da tenere d’occhio. Il soggetto del film viene opzionato e qualche anno dopo esce un remake diretto da Jim Sheridan con Jake Gyllenhaal e Natalie Portman. Sheridan si sente appoggiato e incoraggiato dalla regista.
La ricerca di un equilibrio interiore, la fuga e la riappacificazione sono centrali in Dopo il Matrimonio , dove Mads Mikkelsen, per dimenticare se stesso, si occupa di orfani in India, un altrove lontano in cui i drammi degli altri nascondono quelli personali. Il film ottiene una candidatura all’Oscar e holds a contract with Paramount for Susanne, who will run with Benicio Del Toro and Halle Berry Things We Lost , the first film that bears the signature of the writers nor Susanne nor Anders Thomas Jensen, and his close associate friend (and director of worship Green Butchers and Adam's Apples ). The truth is that even We Lost film is a very personal and recognizable (not accidental that Susanne and Pernille Bech Christensen and supported by Morten Søborg, respectively editor and director of photography) and is again the meeting of two solitudes and pain in two different but close.
future engagements include Susanne Bier is expected to play double that in addition to being shot in Denmark, will also set in Italy, a country she loves.
It is also worth noting that among his favorite directors are Clint Eastwood and Ingmar Bergman (on which the director has a plan).
INTERVIEW WITH SUSANNE BIER
What inspired the idea of \u200b\u200bhis new movie, In un mondo migliore ?
Ho discusso con Anders Thomas Jensen della Danimarca, che viene percepita come una società armoniosa e ideale, mentre nella realtà nulla è perfetto. Abbiamo iniziato a pensare ad una storia nella quale eventi imprevedibili avrebbero avuto effetti drammatici sulle persone e distrutto l’immagine di luogo incantato nel quale vivere. La storia di due ragazzi che diventano amici, ma uno di loro comincia a diventare violento, ha iniziato a svilupparsi. Di solito si crede — o si vuole credere — che i ragazzini siano buoni, creature dell’amore, ma in questo caso un 12enne diventa cattivo, addirittura malvagio, perché angry.
What is it about the film?
The film focuses on the character of Mikael Persbrandt, who plays an idealistic doctor who works for a humanitarian mission to a refugee camp in Africa. He wants to do the right thing, but the events make it to the test and see to what extent. Its history is intertwined with that of boys. The doctor is an interesting and intriguing character who faces his own injuries, but dreams of a better world.
In After marriage, Mads Mikkelsen was also involved in the humanitarian field, but had to make a difficult choice in his life. It seems fascinated by these complex male characters, tested by fate and forced to make decisions almost heroic.
just like people and their problems that make them interesting. In the film, Mikael Persbrandt is romantic, idealistic, but certainly not perfect. It is a real human being with its fragility, her doubts and uncertainties. As a director and a woman, I feel urged to these male characters. The actors often have a strong feminine side, and I like to find him, such as deep, hidden secret to be uncovered.
had in mind Ulrich Thomsen and Mikael Persbrandt when he wrote the screenplay with Jensen?
usually do not talk about the actors at the beginning of writing, we want to focus on the history and drama of the characters. Then, after the second and third writing, when we have the names, we think and rewrite parts of the story.
How was it for her work with Mikael Persbrandt?
is a very gifted actor, of great strength. It has an animal side very much alive and that was great for me, as a director.
Last January, he had problems with the Sudanese government, which accused the film of being anti-Islamic and paint "a situation that does not exist in Darfur." What about this episode?
The film has nothing to do with Darfur. It was filmed in Kenya, and the action takes place somewhere in Africa, not in a specific place. The story then has nothing to do with religion: the accusation was totally inappropriate.
She is a filmmaker of more "salable" in Scandinavia, and his films are known around the world. It is important to this international recognition for her?
The film is not for me to make small avant-garde film that will never see anyone. I like to be connected to the public, because I think the audience when I make a film.
© interview Annika Pham - Cineuropa.org
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