It has been announced that Lars von Trier's serial killer thriller, The House That Jack Built, will screen out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival (8 - 19 May), thus bringing to an end a seven-year ban for the controversial director, during which he was declared Persona Non Grata by the organisers. At the press conference for Melancholia, which premiered at Cannes in 2011, von Trier said: "I thought I was a Jew for a long time and was very
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Cannes Festival Invites Supernatural Border
Danish director Ali Abbasi, whose debut feature Shelley was nominated at both the Bodil and Robert Awards this year, will compete in the Un Certain Regard sidebar of the 71st Cannes Film Festival (8 - 19 May) with his supernatural love story Border (Gräns), based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In). A border guard (Eva Melander) with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers develops a strange attraction to a suspect (Eero Milonoff) who is the
Ride Upon the Storm Scoops International Sales
Distributor Studiocanal has announced several international sales for Danish drama Ride Upon The Storm (Herrens veje), written by Adam Price (Borgen), which recently won Best Drama, Best Actor and Best Actress at the Robert Awards. Ride Upon the Storm follows a family, headed by Johannes (Lars Mikkelsen), who have been priests for more than 250 years. However, his sons are now desperate to free themselves from his tyranny, so the devout August becomes an army chaplain in the Middle East, while
Those Who Kill Set For Reboot On Viaplay
Those Who Kill (Den som dræber), which originally aired on TV2 Denmark in 2011, is set for a reboot on Viaplay and TV3 with a fresh take that includes a brand new cast and narrative structure, directed by Carsten Myllerup (Black Widows). Based on an original idea by Elsebeth Egholm, the first season originally aired as five two-part stories and concluded with the feature film Fortidens skygge. However, season two will be a single continuous crime story across eight episodes that
Lone Scherfig Begins Fairy Tale With Bill Nighy
Danish director Lone Scherfig (Italian For Beginners) started filming in Toronto this week on a modern day fairy tale starring Andrea Riseborough and Bill Nighy. The unnamed project, which is currently known by the working titles Secrets From The Russian Tea Room and New York Winter Palace, follows a group of people who are all going through difficult times, set against the backdrop of an opulent Russian restaurant in New York. Bill Nighy plays the restaurant owner, with Tahar Rahim as an