Film recommendations week 39
Kosmorama recommends quality films for this week!
Biru Unjárga - Føkkings Nesseby
Where: Trondheim Kino
15-year-old Elvira doesn’t quite fit in with the Sami village of Unjárga, where she lives. In rebellion, Elvira embraces her half-Danish identity, as her mother became pregnant at a fertility clinic in Denmark. Elvira dreams of a cool Danish father figure who will help her solve life’s problems, but the chaos truly begins when her real father shows up.
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Where: Cinemateket
Appleyard College is a boarding school with strict Victorian sexual morals, seeing its mission as shaping young girls into becoming good wives for their future husbands. It’s Valentine’s Day in the year 1900, and a group of students and teachers are preparing for an excursion to Hanging Rock, a rock formation in Victoria with great religious and symbolic value to the Aboriginal people. Before the day is over, three students and a schoolteacher have disappeared. What happened? Is it a crime, or is there a supernatural cause behind it? Despite extensive searches in the area, the four remain missing without a trace. The disappearance triggers a series of events, revealing both the best and worst in those involved.
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a film that suggests there is a world beyond our small rational universe, where instincts and primal urges dominate. It is an unusually beautiful yet deeply disturbing film, with imagery and music that evoke feelings of melancholy, unease, and a longing for something perfect. Sophia Coppola's debut film The Virgin Suicides is clearly inspired by this dreamy, pastel-colored, eerie atmosphere, the girls in long white dresses, and underlying themes of sexuality and the death drive.
Fucking Åmål
Where: Streaming
Elin has made out with about 70,000 guys, and thinks everything is boring. She longs for something to happen. Jessica is dating Markus, who thinks he's the coolest guy in Åmål. Johan is Markus' best friend, and he's in love with Elin, but she thinks he's lame. Agnes is the loneliest person in the whole world, and she's so in love with a certain person that her heart is almost breaking. In 1999, the film won four Swedish Guldbagge awards.
