The film, shot on 35mm, based most of its production in a gorgeous house north of Copenhagen, where the garden leads into the woods. When we bump into something that isn't really working, and I have to rethink the scene, we all come from the same place trying to solve it, and then the common language we have created together in the rehearsal room comes in handy." "This collective knowledge helps us a lot during the shooting of the film. "In the rehearsal room, we are creating a collective knowledge of the material based on the scripted vision for the story," she explains of her approach. The team rehearsed extensively for three and a half weeks before shooting for about 35 days. Can we imagine this woman seducing this boy, and can we imagine him being captivated by her?" Nature as an important motif "We had to see if the chemistry was believable. He sent in a "really impressive" audition tape and then the team tested him with Dyrholm in Copenhagen. His charisma is difficult to define he looks like a man, but he's also just a boy," she adds. "He has this subtle femininity to his face. He has already had experience after making TV shows like 'Jordskott' and films like 'All Inclusive', and had won the Stockholm Rising Star Award in 2017. Enter Swedish rising talent Gustav Lindh, who was then 22, but looks believable as a scrawny 17-year-old on screen. "I wanted someone with some experience in life and therefore some sort of perspective," she says. To cast the stepson, Gustav, el-Toukhy wanted a trained actor who looked like a juvenile but was not. Gustav Lindh, in the role of the young stepson, won the Stockholm Rising Star Award in 2017. Otherwise it easily becomes redundant, because it does not move the story forward or take us deeper, and then it loses its power." She adds, "I believe that a sex scene should only be in a movie if it is telling the audience something new, or providing insight, in the same way for instance a dialogue scene would. At first the sex is very in-your-face lustful – pure body and no mind, then gradually I wanted the mood to become more and more intimate and the energy of the scenes to reflect and symbolize the characters' variable emotional states." "I wanted to create a progression in the sex scenes throughout the film. The film contains several intimate sex scenes between the characters, and these were carefully planned and meticulously storyboarded in advance, el-Toukhy says. I try to create a safe space for myself and the actors through rehearsals, and also I strive to take risks in regard to the artistic choices I make – so we are a good match in that sense." ![]() I believe that like most great actors, she wants to and enjoys being dared, if she is in a safe working environment. The director adds, "Trine Dyrholm is utterly fearless in her work, and she will do anything the role and the story demands of her. "Without naming names, she gave us testimonies and her thoughts on both the women who had experienced something similar, and the younger men," the director says. In addition to their own research, el-Toukhy and Käehne got very valuable input from people with knowledge of comparable experiences – among them, a therapist working with clients who had lived through both sides of resembling situations. We were also getting inspiration from old Greek mythology, for example, the story of Phaedra, who falls in love with her stepson, but is rejected by him." "And spent a ton of time discussing different angles, reading books, watching documentaries and going through essays and articles. "We gathered a lot of material," el-Toukhy explains. I wanted to look into that." A particularly challenging characterĮl-Toukhy and writer Maren Louise Käehne – who also collaborated with el-Toukhy on her debut feature 'Long Story Short', winning them the national Bodil Award for best script – started with a lot of research. And it's rare that we see the perspective of the older woman, not the younger man. That narrative differs very much from the narrative of stepfather and stepdaughter and is often depicted as something more profound and pure. "Historically we have a tendency to overromanticise the relationship between an older woman and a younger man, whether it's a stepmother and stepson or teacher and pupil. Sundance Film Festival 2019 runs 24 January – 3 February.īoth films are also selected for the Nordic competitions at Göteborg Film Festival, running 25 January – 4 February.Īnother inspiration to create a story about an older woman and a younger man came from the desire to shake up how such a narrative is usually presented. ![]() Also selected for Sundance is Mads Brügger's documentary 'Cold Case Hammarskjöld'. 'Queen of Hearts' is making its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition.
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