She arrives at home where her mother, Marie, is putting her younger brother to bed. An ambulance arrives, and Marie and Hasse follow Thea to the hospital. What makes the film unshakeable is its sheer physical and psychological relentlessness of execution; a small, if deeply sad, story becomes all-consuming when no respite or interruption is offered from its overlapping stages of shock and sorrow. . It was one of three films shortlisted by Norway to be their submission for the at the , but it lost out to.
Often, when film-makers use long takes — or indeed, single takes, like Poppe in his film, or Sebastian Schipper in Victoria — we find ourselves wondering how long a single shot can be extended, or puzzling over the intricacy of the camera choreography. Crew: Director, screenplay: Tuva Novotny. She finds Thea badly injured from the fall and screams for help. Jonas Alarik deserve similar credit for their headlong audience-immersion technique. She then enters her bedroom, makes an entry to her , and jumps out the window which is on the 4th floor of an apartment building. Co-producers: Rene Ezra, Matilda Appelin. The action quickly shifts — again seamlessly, in the same single take that continues for the rest of the film — to the street outside, where Maria is gasping in shock, barely able to breathe, as an ambulance arrives to rush Tea to hospital.
Tea fixes herself a sandwich and a glass of milk, and goes into her bedroom. At this point, a spoiler warning is necessary, because this is where the film takes a shocking turn. This year, the festival ran 190 films across 424 screenings in theaters all over town. Executive producers: Aage Aaberge, Henrik Zein. Film Review: 'Blind Spot' Reviewed at San Sebastian Film Festival competing , Sept. Thea makes a phone call to her father, Anders, but he does not answer.
Production: Norway A Nordisk Film production. It is one of three films shortlisted to be the Norwegian entry for the at the. You can help Wikipedia by. Her , Hasse and Mona, happen to be close by and come to her aid. In this short eternity, Maria breaks down into complete, frenzied incoherence, depicted by Tjelta with frightening credibility — nearly as draining to watch as it must have been to perform.
It was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the. Newcomer Øien is terrifically natural and relaxed at the start, making it all the more shocking that — as Maria discovers — a girl like Tea may be utterly unknowable to her loving parents. Marie quickly realizes what has happened and rushes out. Camera color : Jonas Alarik. Anders soon arrives and hysterically demands to see his daughter.
Marie, unable to remain in the hospital, decides to go home and wait. With: Pia Tjelta, Oddgeir Thune, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Nora Mathea Øien, Ellen Heyerdahl Janzon, Per Frisch, Marianne Krogh, Carl Munck, Teodor Barsnes-Simonsen. She finds the diary and breaks down after reading it. Thea arrives safely home, and after fixing herself a sandwich, jotting something down in her diary and pleasantly greeting her mother Maria Tjelta , throws herself unceremoniously from her bedroom window. Marie and Anders are allowed to see Thea as the operates on her, but Anders passes out at the sight. Production companies: Nordisk Film Production International sales: Trust Nordisk, Producer: Elizabeth Kvithyll Screenplay: Tuva Novotny Cinematography: Jonas Alarik Production design: Nina Bjerch Andresen Music: Peter Albrechtsen Main cast: Pia Tjelta, , Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Oddgeir Thune, Per Frisch. Running time 106 minutes Country Norway Language Norwegian Homesick : De nærmeste is a 2015 Norwegian directed by.
Berger are two half-siblings who grew up apart and end up falling in love after meeting for the first time in adulthood. When asked about this, Anders and Marie insist that Thea had been treated by a and that she has shown no signs of or. The camera then trails her and another girl, Anna , as they walk home in the twilight, chatting quietly and inconsequentially about homework and discussing their classmates, whom they dismiss as mean and interested only in boys and make-up. Director: Tuva Novotny With: Pia Tjelta, Oddgeir Thune, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Nora Mathea Øien 1 hour 42 minutes There are moments of life-and-death crisis in which time simultaneously stops and stretches, becomes both immaterial and absolutely of the essence, and few spaces do more to blur it than a hospital — where lives end, begin and are drastically altered in seconds that pass like centuries. In Toronto Film Festival — Discovery. .
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