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Maison du Bonheur, Sofia Bohdanowicz

Justine Smith / November 30, 2017

‘I don’t go with a game plan’: Director Sofia Bohdanowicz on Maison du Bonheur

Director Sofia Bohdanowicz discusses her process, representing older women in film, and photographing lived in spaces in her new film Maison du Bonheur.

Alex Heeney / November 22, 2017

Cinematographer Jakob Ihre on Thelma: ‘Even in fantastical moments, the light is still naturalistic’

Cinematographer Jakob Ihre discusses adapting to shooting on itital, lighting different characters for a thematic purpose, and how production design affects his creative choices.

Thelma, Joachim Trier, Eili Harboe

Alex Heeney / November 21, 2017

Director Joachim Trier on his ‘gaze from another place’ in Thelma

Director Joachim Trier on Thelma, the dynamic between the subjective and objective gaze and portraying a dysfunctional father-daughter relationship.

Thelma, Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier, Eili Harboe

Alex Heeney / November 20, 2017

Co-writer Eskil Vogt on Thelma: ‘We’re not happy with movies just being naturalistic. It has to explore cinematic form.’

Co-writer Eskil Vogt discusses approaching genre cinema for the first time, depicting characters’ interiority on screen, and his collaboration with director Joachim Trier.

Revenge, Coralie Fargeat, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz

Elena Lazic / November 6, 2017

‘She can be strong, even when she is wearing a bikini’: Director Coralie Fargeat and star Matilda Lutz discuss their feminist rape-revenge film Revenge

Director Coralie Fargeat and star Matilda Lutz discuss Revenge, the stigma around genre cinema, mixing humour and violence, and the way victims are still held responsible for being attacked. This is an excerpt from our forthcoming ebook on feminist horror beyond empowertainment. To read the entire article, get your copy of the book here.

Ruben Östlund, The Square, Claes Bang

Elena Lazic / October 25, 2017

Ruben Östlund: ‘It’s more interesting to have someone do something stupid or amoral out of pure candour or naivety’

Ruben Östlund on his Palme d’Or winner The Square, the mechanisms of empathy, the state of contemporary art, and the pleasures of tragi-comedy.

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