Swedish director Ruben Östlund‘s film TURIST (FORCE MAJEURE) has won the Jury’s price in the class of “Un Certain Regard” (A Special View) at the Cannes Filmfestival. “First time a Swedish film wins this”, writes the Swedish Film Institute. Östlund has impressed me very much with his feature film PLAY which I saw in 2012 at the Zurich Film Festival.
Flames. In the first seconds the film EGON SCHIELE – DEATH AND THE MAIDEN is on fire. Eyes, money, faces, limbs, all in golden light. Then suddenly a blue-black avalanche of coal hits the ground […]
Well, the Thriller SNABBA CASH (see review on this blog) has a huge asset: This most handsome guy here, starring as JW. Joel Kinnaman is a Swedish-American actor, born 1979, very tall and living in […]
Finally is seems to dawn on people in what was formerly called the ‘3rd World’: Earning a living isn’t easy, no matter where you are; that’s the basic message in DES ÉTOILES (a lengthy and poorly made […]
(c) Elisabeth Schabus
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