Swedish Film #2 2010 • A magazine from the Swedish Film Institute P UMP UP THE NOISE Johannes Stjärne Nilsson and Ola Simonsson want the Sound of Noise to ring all over Cannes Bill Skarsgård Another shining son BATHING MICKY In Competition in Cannes A SILENT CHILD In Directors’ Fortnight ... BUT FILM IS MY MISTRESS Bergman revisited www.sfi.se “Brighton Rock” © 2010 Optimum Releasing “Centurion” © 2010 Celador Films / Pathe Productions “Antichrist” © 2009 Zentropa “Dear Alice” © 2009 One Tired Brother “Eden Lake” © 2008 Rollercoaster Films “The Descent: Part 2” © 2009 Celador Films / Pathe Productions “Arn - The Kingdom at Road’s End” © 2008 AB Svensk Filmindustri “Mammoth” © 2009 Memfis Film “The Cottage” © 2008 Steel Mill Yorkshire / UKFC “Hush” © 2009 Warp X / Fear Factory (Hush) SWEDEN’S BEST KEPT SECRET In less than four years Filmgate have supplied high end cost effective visual effects and DI solutions for over 30 feature films in 9 countries. 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Their short filmMusic for One Skies and Simon. Read the interview with Gunnar Almér Phone +46 70 640 46 56 Apartment and Six Drummers (2001) led to him, and find out what it’s like to have [email protected] unprecedented success, competition at the brothers and a father who are interna- Cannes festival, 30 international awards tional stars already. and more than 6 million hits on YouTube. When things eventually started to slow TWO SWEDISH SHORTS are also competing Festivals, short films Andreas Fock down, they thought that drumming films in Cannes: Jesper Klevenås’ A Silent Child Phone +46 70 519 59 66 were behind them. But despite taking on and Bathing Micky by Frida Kempff and [email protected] new challenges, the six drummers kept Camilla Skagerström. And Stig Björkman popping into their heads and spawning will once again be lifting the lid on the new film ideas. Finally, they just had to give treasure chest of material from the in and dust off the old drumsticks once Ingmar Bergman archives. Following on Festivals, documentaries Sara Yamashita Rüster again. No bad thing, you might think, since from last year’s hugely successful Images Phone +46 76 117 26 78 their feature filmSound of Noise has from the Playground is …but Film Is My [email protected] brought them back to Cannes once again. Mistress, with contributions from some of Music for One Apartment and Six the biggest names in the world of cinema, Drummers is, for those of you who don’t including Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, remember, filmed as a piece of music in Lars von Trier and Bernardo Bertolucci. Special projects Petter Mattsson which an apartment is the instrument and This time round Björkman takes the Phone +46 70 607 11 34 its various rooms the movements. In Sound viewer behind the scenes on the shoots of [email protected] of Noise the same percussionists as in the a number of Bergman classics including short have taken to the streets wearing Cries and Whispers, which turns out to masks on a mission to flush out all the have been a remarkably good-humoured trashy music that surrounds us. The upshot and cheery event. Special projects is a cops and robbers style caper with It looks like another unforgettable Andrea Reuter Phone +46 76 833 14 49 highly infectious musical accompaniment. Cannes festival full of surprises! [email protected] Sound of Noise is screening as part of Critics’ Week in Cannes and also compet- ing for the prestigious Caméra d’Or Head of Communications award. Pretty good for a debut feature Cissi Elwin Frenkel & Public Relations (even though the two directors have been CEO, Åsa Garnert at Cannes three times previously with Swedish Film Institute Phone +46 70 615 12 41 short films!). Read the interview with [email protected] them in this issue of Swedish Film. Read also about other directors making their Press Officer feature debuts, such as Lisa Langseth Jan Göransson whose Pure is due to premiere this Phone +46 70 603 03 62 [email protected] SWEDISH FILM Contributing Editors Photography ISSUE 2/2010 Anders Dahlbom Nils Bergendal Klas Ekman Johan Bergmark Swedish Film Institute Issued by Henrik Emilson Sara Mac Key International Department The Swedish Film Institute Karoline Eriksson Morgan Norman P.O. Box 27126 Jonas Holmberg Kjell B Persson SE-102 52 Stockholm, Sweden Publisher Christina Höglund Cover photo Phone +46 8 665 11 00 Pia Lundberg Jan Lumholdt Nils Bergendal Fax +46 8 666 36 98 Editors Per Nyström Translation www.sfi.se Mattias Dahlström Karin Svensson Derek Jones Paola Langdal Mattias Vestin Matt Bibby The Swedish Film Institute’s aims include the promotion, Art Direction support and development of Swedish films, the allocation of Markus Edin Print grants, and the promotion of Swedish cinema internationally. Norra Skåne Offset, Hässleholm ISSN 1654-0050 4 CONTENTS anen V U Y T Y arr Y, H Y, ke mac sara , anielsson V D V 13 14 28 Gusta mark G ber johan , arsson L mil , E , norman an 28 32 46 G mor 8 NEWS 32 SAVAGE Cannes- and Tribeca-selected documentaries, Bergman actress Pernilla August A high-profile legal case about two murdered teenage girls is the basis for directorial debut and business news from the Swedish world of cinema. Emil Larsson and Martin Jern’s Savage. 11 PRODUCER ON THE MOVE 34 TRUST ME Meet Lizette Jonjic, the Swedish producer who wants to develop career-long Criticially acclaimed Darling-director Johan Kling is back with a dark farce relationships with her directors. about the human right not to be perfect. 12 BATHING MICKY 37 LITTLE CHILDREN, BIG WORDS Will the story of a 100-year-old woman who goes for a swim every day of the Seven-year-old Alex turns a classroom discussion upside down with just one year win the Palme d´Or in Cannes? sentence in Lisa James Larsson’s short film. 13 A SILENT CHILD 38 SIMPLE SIMON Shown in the Director’s Fortnight section, Jesper Klevenås short A Silent Child Trio of newcomers Andreas Öhman, Bonnie Skoog Feeney and Jonathan is about a young girl who won’t scream not even if she’s hurt. Sjöberg sit down to talk about the ups and downs of being inexperienced 14 BILL SKARSGÅRD during the filming of their debut feature. With leading roles in Hannes Holm’s Behind Blue Skies as well as Andreas Öhman’s 42 THE QUIET GAME Simple Simon, this 19-year-old is making a name for himself in his own right. It took some time but now actress-turned director Görel Crona is living her 18 …BUT FILM IS MY MISTRESS teenage dream of making films. Behind the scenes-footage mixed with interviews with the likes of Scorsese, 43 BAD faITH Allen, Bertolucci and von Trier in Stig Björkman’s second documentary on Director Kristan Petri returns with a Scandinavian thriller, having cast one Ingmar Bergman. Swede, one Norwegian and one Dane in the lead parts. 22 SOUND OF NOISE 46 HOYTE VAN HOYTEMA After having charmed both the audience and critics with their short Music for One The guy behind the guy behind the guy. Sweden’s favourite cinematographer Apartment and Six drummers in Cannes in 2001, directors Johannes Stjärne is a Dutchman. Born in Switzerland. Nilsson and Ola Simonsson are back on the Riviera. This time with their first full length feature. 50 NEW FILMS All the latest Swedish films. 26 AUTUMN MAN Poetry and robbery are the subjects of director Jonas Selberg Augustsén’s first 62 COmpaNIES fiction film after a handful of documentaries. 28 PURE Director and screenwriter Lisa Langseth about class and classical music in a film based on her own play. 6 www.kraxcom.se The choice of filmmakers Soundstage, greenscreen studios, complete equipment rentals for camera, light and grip, production offices, sound post, picture post, all in the heart of Scandinavia. In 2009, these companies chose Gothenburg Film Studios. The choice of filmmakers. NEWS Ola Rapace and Noomi Rapace in Svinalängorna. onow K olf R Bergman actress Pernilla August Armadillo in Critics’ Week makes her debut as a director CANNes Swedish/Danish co-production Armadillo has been selected for the Actress Pernilla August, best-known to audiences from Ingmar Critics’ Week at this year’s Cannes film festival. The documentary is Bergman’s 1982 classic Fanny and Alexander and Star Wars: The about Danish soldiers at the Camp Armadillo, an army base situated in the Phantom Menace (1999), where she played the mother of Anakin Helmand province in Afghanistan, and their increasing cynicism with the war. Skywalker, is making her debut as a filmmaker.