©Courtesy of MUBI When famous figures are portrayed on film, it is almost always less interesting to follow the full arc of their lives – the rise, fall, and everything in between. It is far more compelling to drop into a brief period or pivotal moment and get a glimpse of who they really are,…
© Schubert, ROW Pictures, Walker+Worm Film & Gerald Kerkletz They say casting is everything. Before Austrian filmmaker Markus Schleinzer sat in the director’s chair, he spent years as a casting director for auteurs like Michael Haneke, helping cast “The Piano Teacher” (2001) and “The White Ribbon” (2009), films full of astonishing performances. That eye for talent hasn’t left him….
©Courtesy of The Neon Demon Mubi has captured the rights to Nicolas Winding Refn’s new feature “Her Private Hell” for all of Latin America as well as the United Kingdom Ireland, Italy, and Spain. Neon International will be managing the film’s distribution in North America. Winding Refn, who was born in Copenhagen in 1970 and…
@Photo by Martin Dam Kristensen – © Nordisk Film Production ROSE is the story of two sisters, Inger and Ellen, and how their relationship is challenged on a highly anticipated coach trip to Paris. When Inger announces her struggles with mental health to the group, the sisters are faced with pity from some and discrimination…
The film, written and directed by Niels Arden Oplev, begins with a beautiful scene depicting the character of Inger, played by Sofie Gråbøl, combing her hair. This moment evokes Marina Abramović’s Art must be beautiful, Artist must be beautiful. In 1975, this apparently innocuous gesture was used by the performance artist as a tool to…
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