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Scandinavia Cinema CINEMA SCANDINAVIA issue 1 april 2014 Lars von Trier Nordic Depression Who Killed Palme? The Gender of Millennium Globalised Vikings Swedish Documentary Michael Noer Witches Cinema Scandinavia // 1 Cinema Scandinavia // 1 COVER ART Anthony Carusoe Click here to view more artworks IN THIS ISSUE Editorial News Lars von Trier: Misogynist? Hooked on Nordic Depression Who Killed Palme? The Gender of Millennium Vikings: A Global Trend Swedish Documentary Michael Noer Witches in the Scandinavian Film Released in April Festivals in April Festivals Around the World Awards in March Contribute to the Next Issue Feedback NOTE This is an interactive document. You can click on various links and text to view more information Cinema Scandinavia // 2 OF HORSES AND MEN Cinema Scandinavia // 2 Cinema Scandinavia // 3 WELCOME as well as added visits to Sweden and Denmark. ello. Welcome to Cinema Scandinavia. H I’m in love with the landscape, the wooden hous- es, the woolen sweaters, the charming language. Cinema Scandinavia is a website and Watching a Scandinavian film or television show magazine dedicated to providing an insight to and you can’t help but be absorbed by all these Nordic cinema. elements that have made the region so appealing and distinctive. When I saw my first Scandina- Cinema Scandinavia started towards the vian film, Let the Right One In, I fell in love with end of January in 2014. As I am currently com- the style. Since then, my discovery of Bergman, pleting my Masters degree researching the extent Trier, Vinterberg and Bier has inspired me to to which Scandinavian culture is present in the write and talk about the Scandinavian cinema as cinema, I needed a place to constantly keep my- much as possible. Finding a community where self up to date on news and trends, and started a people enjoy the same thing and want to collab- free Wordpress blog where I had to force myself orate in giving the cinema attention has been ex- to write about the news every day. Within a cou- tremely lucky. ple weeks, the website was gaining a great deal of attention and I decided an online magazine was So where to from here? Cinema Scan- the next step. From there, people have volun- dinavia is going to spend 2014 creating a com- teered to submit their own articles, and together munity and a following, and I’d like to move to a Cinema Scandinavia has come into existence. print edition in the Nordic and European region, as well as provide more film reviews and cover- Why is Scandinavian cinema so import- age of major festivals. Also, I want to find more ant? I am currently living in Melbourne, Aus- people who are willing to write for the magazine tralia, so Scandinavia is almost literally on the and help it grow. This is not a solo project, but other side of the world. This foreign, different, rather something that everyone can work to- and beautiful place has been so appealing to me wards. since I discovered it. In 2012 I had the wonder- ful opportunity to spend two months traveling This first issue has a wide range of in- through Europe, and the first place I landed in formation, from Lisbeth to Sarah, from Michael was Oslo, Norway. I spent my first week in Ber- Noer to Lars von Trier. Our writers explore key gen and Bryggen was the first historical land- Scandinavian cultural icons on a global as well mark I saw in Europe. Norway has felt special as domestic stage. It truly is impressive what has to me ever since, and since that visit I have gone been written here. back four more times, Thank you for downloading the maga- zine, and I hope you enjoy the issue! - emma BRYGGEN IN BERGEN, NORWAY Cinema Scandinavia // 4 CINEMA SCANDINAVIA find us www.cinemascandinavia.com All of our articles are available for individual, plain text download here. Also, feedback is appreciated. Cinema Scandinavia // 4 Cinema Scandinavia // 5 news Criterion Collection Australia Bans Star Wars to be Turkey Bans to Release ‘Persona’ Swedish Film Over Filmed in Iceland Nymphomaniac The Criterion Collection Child Porn Concerns The filming crew for the Turkey has banned the has released Persona on Censors have refused new Stars Wars movie (ep- controversial film by Lars DVD. In the film, Liv Ull- to classify a 30 year old isode VII) will come to von Trier, saying the films mann plays a stage actor award-winning Swedish Iceland this April accord- extensive nudity and ex- who has explicably gone film after an application ing to Fréttablaðiðnews- plicit sex scenes make it mute; and an equally mes- by the Australian Federal paper in Iceland. It is more porn than art. Vol- merizing Bibi Andersson is Police. The boards deci- believed that Icelandic ume 1 was set to be re- the garrulous young nurse sion to refuse classifica- production service com- leased in the country on caring for her in a remote tion for Children’s Island pany, Truenorth, will as- the 14th of March, and island cottage. The DVD effectively bans the film in sist the crew once they volume 2 on the 21st. release includes a new 2K the country. come to Iceland. However, Turkey’s film digital restoration, with an board outright banned the uncompressed soundtrack Read more film, voting six to two to on the Blu-ray, a visual es- Read more classify Nymphomaniac as say of the films prologue pornography. by Bergman Scholar Peter Cowie, and much more. Read more Read more Cinema Scandinavia // 6 Egmont Produces Swedish Film Institute Nordisk Film and TV Sørfund Announces Highest Profits to Announces February Fond Announces New Support for Films Date Funding Recipients from Developing Countries Scandinavia’s media giant The Swedish Film Insti- Roar Uthaug’s disaster Egmont has posted re- tute has announced its movie Bølgen (The Wave), Norway’s Sørfond has cord earnings of €1.6 bil- funding for the month Michael Noer’s drama Nø- supported five films from lion and operating profits of February 2014. 13 fea- gle hus spejl starring Ghita developing countries. The of €191 million in 2013, tures and 7 short films Nørb, Antti J. Jokinen’s films are: according to the group’s were awarded production love epic Wildeye (previ- - Cemetery of Kings by annual report published funding by the Swedish ously known as Helena), Apichatpong on Tuesday. Egmont’s Film Institute in February. Petri Kotwica’s Cross My - Weerasethakul Lamb by film group Nordisk boast- Two of these – Greetings Heart, the kids movie Ant- Yared Zeleke ed revenues of €370 mil- from Up Northand and Kay boy 2 and SVT’s Christmas - Black Sunshine by Ako- lion and operating profits Pollak’s Heaven on Earth – series Piratskatten’s hemlighet sua Adoma Owusu Giti of €30 million that includ- are also among the films have received production - Paradise in Hell by Niy- ed the earn-out sale of granted automatic fund- support from Nordisk ongabo Yves Montand Nordisk film TV in 2009. ing for 2014 at the same Film & TV Fond’s Febru- - Murder in Pacot by Raoul Nordisk Film Cinemas time. ary round of support. Peck sold 5.8 million tickets in Read more Denmark and 3.2 million in Norway. Read more Read more Read more Cinema Scandinavia // 6 Cinema Scandinavia // 7 Cinema Scandinavia // 8 “The problem with her (Bjork) is a bit like a problem you have with women - sometimes they do something you don’t really understand.” - Lars von Trier lars von trier: MISOGYNIST? You could say that Lars von Trier doesn’t really have a way with the ladies. After all, he employed a misogyny consultant on the set of Antichrist (2009), whose sold job it was to “furnish the proof of the fact that women are evil.” In his films, women are beaten, raped, depressed, falsely accused, murdered, and commonly said to side with the devil. Therefore it is understandable that he has gained a great deal of negative attention and has been labeled a misogynist in his por- trayal towards women. Tookey says of Antichrist that “the man who made this horrible, misogynistic film needs to see a shrink.” At the Cannes Film Festival, he was awarded an unprecedented ‘anti-prize’ for misogyny for his film Antichrist, while Charlotte Gainsbourg won the Priz d’Interpretation feminine. Gainsbourg said she trusted Trier and found him to be generous and respectful, which is interesting when considering what he has put his female leads through. Björk won the best actress award for Dancer in the Dark (2000), but the story goes that she grew so frustrated on set she tried to eat her own cardigan. For much of Dogville’s (2003) three hour running time, Nicole Kidman is beaten, chained and raped. Furthermore, poor Emily Watson grad- ually became a brutalised prostitute in Breaking the Waves (1996). Not to mention Gainsbourg’s own character in Nymphomaniac (2013) as a sex addict, where she gets involved in sadomasochism. Underlying Trier’s films is a kind of rare beauty that makes him such an acclaimed actor, which in turn creates this controversy and discussion surround- ing the great Dane. Cinema Scandinavia // 8 Cinema Scandinavia // 9 DOGVILLE The women in Trier’s films are often put in- In Trier’s films, women are largely to blame side a narrative that invokes great suffering. How- for their own suffering. This started in his earlier ever, this isn’t the first time that a Scandinavian di- work, such as Kim, the prostitute in The Element of rector has done such a thing. In the films Carl Th.
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