The film is the second from Malou Reymann following ‘A Perfectly Normal Family’.
TrustNordisk has closed four new deals on Malou Reymann’s Unruly, the winner of the prestigious Dragon Award at Goteborg earlier this year.
The film has now sold to Former Yugoslavia (Cinemania Group), Benelux (September Film), Estonia (Estinfilm) and Taiwan (Cineplex Development Co.).
It is the second film rom Reymann after Rotterdam Big Screen winner A Perfectly Normal Family.
Unruly is about the Sprogø Women’s Institution in the 1930s, when “morally feeble” girls and women were sent to the island to become more compliant. The story focuses on Maren,...
TrustNordisk has closed four new deals on Malou Reymann’s Unruly, the winner of the prestigious Dragon Award at Goteborg earlier this year.
The film has now sold to Former Yugoslavia (Cinemania Group), Benelux (September Film), Estonia (Estinfilm) and Taiwan (Cineplex Development Co.).
It is the second film rom Reymann after Rotterdam Big Screen winner A Perfectly Normal Family.
Unruly is about the Sprogø Women’s Institution in the 1930s, when “morally feeble” girls and women were sent to the island to become more compliant. The story focuses on Maren,...
- 4/12/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Dr Sales has boarded “Always Be Closing,” a drama series about the dynamics, dominance, and discrimination within the telemarketing industry.
The youth-skewing series will premiere on Drtv, the Danish broadcaster’s streaming service, on Feb. 24. “Always Be Closing” is created by Frederik Dirks Gottlieb, Kasper Lundberg, and Andrea Moyo, who themselves were part of the telemarketing industry in their youth. The cast is led by Danish star Anders Heinrichsen and upcoming talent Andreas Bruun Pedersen and Tarek Zayat. The series is directed by Svend Colding and produced by Laura Valentiner-Bohse for Dr.
“Always Be Closing” tells the story of Kenneth and Jamal, two friends in their early 20s who need to make some money — preferably fast. So they get jobs as telemarketers with New Energy, a company selling ”green” power. New Energy is a fast-paced workplace with lots of money, partying, tough competition, and an intense brotherhood with the other telemarketers.
The youth-skewing series will premiere on Drtv, the Danish broadcaster’s streaming service, on Feb. 24. “Always Be Closing” is created by Frederik Dirks Gottlieb, Kasper Lundberg, and Andrea Moyo, who themselves were part of the telemarketing industry in their youth. The cast is led by Danish star Anders Heinrichsen and upcoming talent Andreas Bruun Pedersen and Tarek Zayat. The series is directed by Svend Colding and produced by Laura Valentiner-Bohse for Dr.
“Always Be Closing” tells the story of Kenneth and Jamal, two friends in their early 20s who need to make some money — preferably fast. So they get jobs as telemarketers with New Energy, a company selling ”green” power. New Energy is a fast-paced workplace with lots of money, partying, tough competition, and an intense brotherhood with the other telemarketers.
- 2/19/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
"This could change everything. I can write without feeling guilty." Juno Films has released the official US trailer for an acclaimed Danish biopic titled The Pact, which originally opened in theaters in Denmark last year. The film examines the intense friendship between Karen Blixen, the Danish author best known for her autobiographical novel "Out of Africa" (written under the pen name "Isak Dinesen") and Thorkild Bjørnvig, a young and promising poet. She offers him a Faustian bargain and promises him stardom if he will obey her unconditionally. What a strange relationship. From director Bille August comes this sterling adaptation of Bjørnvig's bestselling memoir. Birthe Neumann stars as Karen Blixen, joined by Simon Bennebjerg, Nanna Skaarup Voss, Asta Kamma August, Anders Heinrichsen, and Marie Mondrup. This looks like a smart character study of an arrogant woman going mad at the end of her life. Perhaps worth a watch. Here's the official...
- 1/21/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A Frankensteinian mashup of sci-fi and torture-porn horror tropes, . While there are vague pretensions toward seriousness in Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen’s screenplay and Jens Dahl’s direction, this thriller ends up discomfitingly most reminiscent of 1970s Wip (women in prison) and Nazisploitation grindhouse fare, as well as gamy mainstream serial-killer potboilers like “Kiss the Girls.” Well-made but more than a bit ick, it’s being released to stateside digital formats by Uncork’d Entertainment on Jan. 11.
Mia (Sara Hjort Ditlevsen) is an equestrian training for the Olympics. She seems more comfortable in the company of her horse than husband Thomas (Anders Heinrichsen), though the complexities of their relationship (including apparent separate sexual peccadilloes) never get more than hinted at. In any case, such nuances soon prove irrelevant when circumstances fatefully entangle his home and work life.
He’s employed as financial chief for a shadowy project by one Dr. Isabel Ruben...
Mia (Sara Hjort Ditlevsen) is an equestrian training for the Olympics. She seems more comfortable in the company of her horse than husband Thomas (Anders Heinrichsen), though the complexities of their relationship (including apparent separate sexual peccadilloes) never get more than hinted at. In any case, such nuances soon prove irrelevant when circumstances fatefully entangle his home and work life.
He’s employed as financial chief for a shadowy project by one Dr. Isabel Ruben...
- 1/7/2022
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Reymann previously directed festival hit ’A Perfectly Normal Family’.
Danish director Malou Reymann, who previously directed festival hit A Perfectly Normal Family, has started the shoot for her new historical drama Ustyrlig (the literal English translation is ‘Uncontrollable’ although the film’s international title is not yet set).
TrustNordisk has boarded international sales. As with A Perfectly Normal Family, Matilda Appelin produces for Nordisk (which plans the Danish release in March 2023). The Danish Film Institute is supporting the production.
The story is about the Sprogø Women’s Institution in the 1930s, when “morally feeble” girls and women were sent to...
Danish director Malou Reymann, who previously directed festival hit A Perfectly Normal Family, has started the shoot for her new historical drama Ustyrlig (the literal English translation is ‘Uncontrollable’ although the film’s international title is not yet set).
TrustNordisk has boarded international sales. As with A Perfectly Normal Family, Matilda Appelin produces for Nordisk (which plans the Danish release in March 2023). The Danish Film Institute is supporting the production.
The story is about the Sprogø Women’s Institution in the 1930s, when “morally feeble” girls and women were sent to...
- 10/4/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Stars: Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Anders Heinrichsen, Morten Holst, Signe Egholm Olsen, Eeva Putro, Jens Andersen, David Bateson | Written by Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen | Directed by Jens Dahl
A renowned health supplement company, run by a ruthless businesswoman, is selecting and abducting young women as part of an experiment bio-hacking babies’ DNA to enable her clients to reverse the aging process. When Mia goes to investigate, she finds herself trapped, branded and tortured in a grim underground facility. Familiar faces start to appear, and she realises that she is not alone in this…
Breeder gets off to a very strange start. We’re introduce to Mia as she’s rejected in bed by her husband, later heading out to the horse stable to masturbate whilst sitting on the spikes of a spur! This is definitely a marriage in decline. And it’s no wonder… Mia’s husband is part an parcel to the kidnapping of women,...
A renowned health supplement company, run by a ruthless businesswoman, is selecting and abducting young women as part of an experiment bio-hacking babies’ DNA to enable her clients to reverse the aging process. When Mia goes to investigate, she finds herself trapped, branded and tortured in a grim underground facility. Familiar faces start to appear, and she realises that she is not alone in this…
Breeder gets off to a very strange start. We’re introduce to Mia as she’s rejected in bed by her husband, later heading out to the horse stable to masturbate whilst sitting on the spikes of a spur! This is definitely a marriage in decline. And it’s no wonder… Mia’s husband is part an parcel to the kidnapping of women,...
- 2/11/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Gonzo violence brings down what could have been an enjoyably bizarre melodrama about a creepy eternal-youth biotech facility
A movie from Denmark that sounds enjoyably bizarre but actually amounts to a yucky helping of torture/imprisonment porn and gonzo violence. Sara Hjort Ditlevsen is Mia, a stylish woman with a liking for horses and Bdsm. Her rich but dull husband, Thomas (Anders Heinrichsen), is squeamish about gratifying Mia’s tastes, but hardly squeaky clean. He is a secret investor in a creepy eternal-youth genetic treatment programme, being developed by the couple’s sinister neighbour Dr Isabel Ruben (Signe Egholm Olsen), who looks 40 but is actually 60 and has some sort of hold on Thomas; she is now kidnapping young women off the streets for her research like a latter-day Elizabeth “Blood Countess” Báthory. Mia tries investigating Dr Ruben’s loathsome facility and finds herself walled up there as well.
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A movie from Denmark that sounds enjoyably bizarre but actually amounts to a yucky helping of torture/imprisonment porn and gonzo violence. Sara Hjort Ditlevsen is Mia, a stylish woman with a liking for horses and Bdsm. Her rich but dull husband, Thomas (Anders Heinrichsen), is squeamish about gratifying Mia’s tastes, but hardly squeaky clean. He is a secret investor in a creepy eternal-youth genetic treatment programme, being developed by the couple’s sinister neighbour Dr Isabel Ruben (Signe Egholm Olsen), who looks 40 but is actually 60 and has some sort of hold on Thomas; she is now kidnapping young women off the streets for her research like a latter-day Elizabeth “Blood Countess” Báthory. Mia tries investigating Dr Ruben’s loathsome facility and finds herself walled up there as well.
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- 2/9/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Coincidences pile up in Jens Dahl's breeder, which pits corporate greed against human bodies in bluntly material manner. Mia (Sara Hjort Ditlevsen) is a savvy young woman who's suspicious about her husband Thomas' (Anders Heinrichsen) behaviour. He happens to be high up in Denmark's biggest genetics company. Nika (Eeva Putro) is a runaway from one of that company's facilities who happens to turn up on their doorstep one day, incoherent but desperate for help. Although she doesn't manage to discern Nika's story before Thomas spirits her away, Mia inevitably stats investigating the company, and Thomas finds himself in a difficult position.
Or does he? Mia and Thomas have been arguing lately. She wants to have a baby; he doesn't. In the facility, obsessive scientist Dr Ruben (Signe Egholm Olsen) is holding young women prisoner and inducing pregnancies in order to harvest the foetuses for use in her work. When Mia is.
Or does he? Mia and Thomas have been arguing lately. She wants to have a baby; he doesn't. In the facility, obsessive scientist Dr Ruben (Signe Egholm Olsen) is holding young women prisoner and inducing pregnancies in order to harvest the foetuses for use in her work. When Mia is.
- 10/23/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Stars: Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Anders Heinrichsen, Morten Holst, Signe Egholm Olsen, Eeva Putro, Jens Andersen, David Bateson | Written by Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen | Directed by Jens Dahl
A renowned health supplement company, run by a ruthless businesswoman, is selecting and abducting young women as part of an experiment bio-hacking babies’ DNA to enable her clients to reverse the aging process. When Mia goes to investigate, she finds herself trapped, branded and tortured in a grim underground facility. Familiar faces start to appear, and she realises that she is not alone in this…
Breeder gets off to a very strange start. We’re introduce to Mia as she’s rejected in bed by her husband, later heading out to the horse stable to masturbate whilst sitting on the spikes of a spur! This is definitely a marriage in decline. And it’s no wonder… Mia’s husband is part an parcel to the kidnapping of women,...
A renowned health supplement company, run by a ruthless businesswoman, is selecting and abducting young women as part of an experiment bio-hacking babies’ DNA to enable her clients to reverse the aging process. When Mia goes to investigate, she finds herself trapped, branded and tortured in a grim underground facility. Familiar faces start to appear, and she realises that she is not alone in this…
Breeder gets off to a very strange start. We’re introduce to Mia as she’s rejected in bed by her husband, later heading out to the horse stable to masturbate whilst sitting on the spikes of a spur! This is definitely a marriage in decline. And it’s no wonder… Mia’s husband is part an parcel to the kidnapping of women,...
- 10/23/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
When a space vessel goes rogue, fleet commander Galdor (Walter Dickerson) tasks Captain Vascan (Anders Heinrichsen) and his co-pilot/mechanic Lago (Christian Erickson) with retrieving it. Shooting it down from space to crash land on an unknown planet proves this story’s beginning rather than its end as we discover the destination was hardly some random accident. No, it’s exactly where the ship was headed because it is the only place with inhabitants who know its plight. Unlike Vascan’s crude sadist who’s all too happy to destroy it, Bald (Natasha Cashman) understands there’s more to its machinery than metal and her ritual to free its soul can commence as the sun becomes eclipsed. Once dismissed as “artificial intelligence” by its creators, Mima (Joëlle Berckmans) is granted human form.
Directors Seth Ickerman (who co-write with Paul La Farge) channels the visceral aesthetics of H.R. Giger and Clive Barker...
Directors Seth Ickerman (who co-write with Paul La Farge) channels the visceral aesthetics of H.R. Giger and Clive Barker...
- 5/28/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
With May right around the corner, Shudder is making sure horror is in full bloom with another month of movies both old and new, with their upcoming titles including Brandon Christensen's Z, the second season of Wolf Creek, Dario Argento's Tenebrae, and the ’90s slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Below, you can check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us in May, and be sure to visit Shudder's website to learn more about the streaming service and their scary good lineup!
"Z
Winner “Scariest Film” – Popcorn Frights
Audience Award Winner – Calgary International Film Festival
A couple is shaken to the core when their eight-year-old son begins hanging out with a creepy and ominous imaginary friend. Starring Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool), Written...
Below, you can check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us in May, and be sure to visit Shudder's website to learn more about the streaming service and their scary good lineup!
"Z
Winner “Scariest Film” – Popcorn Frights
Audience Award Winner – Calgary International Film Festival
A couple is shaken to the core when their eight-year-old son begins hanging out with a creepy and ominous imaginary friend. Starring Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool), Written...
- 4/23/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
"A hallucinogenic journey through space!" Shudder has released one final epic trailer for the crazy indie sci-fi project Blood Machines, written and directed by Seth Ickerman – we've featured two other trailers previously. Which will finally be available to watch on Shudder in May. This French lo-fi sci-fi is actually a "medium-length" film coming in at 50 minutes, making it still a worthy watch. The film tells the story of an A.I. escaping its spaceship as a female ghost and challenging two blade runners into an galactic chase. Featuring a score by the synthwave artist Carpenter Brut kicking this up a few notches. The project is a sequel to the music video Turbo Killer, the first collaboration between Brut and Ickerman. The full-length Blood Machines stars Elisa Lasowski, Anders Heinrichsen, Noémie Stevens, Christian Erickson, Joëlle Berckmans, and Natasha Cashman. This is easily the best trailer yet, and I can't wait to watch this.
- 4/17/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
We’ve got a crazy new trailer for you to watch for an awesome looking Heavy Metal style sci-fi space opera called Blood Machines. This movie has a very fun and wild tone and vibe and it looks like it’s going to be a wild ride!
Blood Machines is a 30-minute short film and sequel to the Carpenter Brut indie music video Turbo Killer, which you can watch below. It tells the story of "an A.I. escaping its spaceship then turning into a female ghost who will challenge two blade runners to a galactic chase." Here's the synopsis for Blood Machine:
Two space hunters are tracking down a machine trying to free itself. After taking it down, they witness a mystical phenomenon: the ghost of a young woman pulls itself out of the machine, as if the spaceship had a soul. Trying to understand the nature of this entity,...
Blood Machines is a 30-minute short film and sequel to the Carpenter Brut indie music video Turbo Killer, which you can watch below. It tells the story of "an A.I. escaping its spaceship then turning into a female ghost who will challenge two blade runners to a galactic chase." Here's the synopsis for Blood Machine:
Two space hunters are tracking down a machine trying to free itself. After taking it down, they witness a mystical phenomenon: the ghost of a young woman pulls itself out of the machine, as if the spaceship had a soul. Trying to understand the nature of this entity,...
- 9/20/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
*there are a few spoilers here. Directors/writers: Raphaël Hernandez, Savitri Joly-Gonfard. Cast: Elisa Lasowski, Anders Heinrichsen, Noémie Stevens, Christian Erickson. Blood Machines is a film from directors: Raphaël Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard; collectively, they are known by the pseudoname Seth Ickerman. Together, they also created the visually stunning music video "Turbo Killer," with composer Carpenter Brut. Fans should view this video, to know how visually stunning Blood Machines actually is. In the story for Blood Machines, two scavengers target a ship and down it on a remote planet. On the surface, these two men encounter a demonic artificial intelligence, which they pursue to ghostly ships' graveyard. The film has a spiritual element, which is very dark in tone. The many upside down crosses might clue viewers into where this film is going (to hell). Meanwhile, this film fan was reminded of a few other films and music videos, while watching this one: Event Horizon.
- 9/19/2019
- by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Blood Machines is the latest sci-fi thriller from directing duo Raphael Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard. Very much in the vein of cyberpunk, the film's first trailer shows lots of space wreckage and a woman emerging from a metal structure. Set to show on Shudder at a future date, the film's score has been composed by Carpenter Brut; his musical scoring is very much synthwave, or new retro wave. This project was developed from a Kickstarter project. And, Blood Machines stars: Elisa Lasowski ("Versailles"), Anders Heinrichsen (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets), Noémie Stevens and several others. If you missed it last week, the trailer for Blood Machines is below. This title is only fifty minutes long, so story details are minimal. Revealed so far, an artificial intelligence has escaped her spaceship, only to turn into a technological ghost. Now, she is in search of two blade runners, with...
- 9/16/2019
- by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
"Bring us back the moolah, or you and Lago will be in big trouble!" This looks awesome!! A full trailer has debuted for an indie sci-fi project titled Blood Machines, written and directed by Seth Ickerman. This French lo-fi sci-fi is actually a "medium-length" film coming in at 50 minutes, telling the story of an A.I. escaping its spaceship as a female ghost and challenging two blade runners into an galactic chase. Featuring a score by the synthwave artist Carpenter Brut. The film is a sequel to the music video Turbo Killer, the first collaboration between Brut and Ickerman. The full-length Blood Machines stars Elisa Lasowski, Anders Heinrichsen, Noémie Stevens, Christian Erickson, Joëlle Berckmans, and Natasha Cashman. I totally love the look of everything in this, from the Alien-inspired ship with gnarly teeth added, to the Blade Runner-esque grainy visuals that still have a unique style all their own.
- 9/13/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
I've got a wild red-band trailer here for a badass looking sci-fi space opera called Blood Machine. The movie has a very retro and Heavy Metal vibe to it that I think you're gonna like. You're also going to want to pump up the volume for this thing!
Blood Machines is a 30-minute short film and sequel to the Carpenter Brut indie music video Turbo Killer, which you can watch below. It tells the story of "an A.I. escaping its spaceship then turning into a female ghost who will challenge two blade runners to a galactic chase." Here's the synopsis for Blood Machine:
Two space hunters are tracking down a machine trying to free itself. After taking it down, they witness a mystical phenomenon: the ghost of a young woman pulls itself out of the machine, as if the spaceship had a soul. Trying to understand the nature of this entity,...
Blood Machines is a 30-minute short film and sequel to the Carpenter Brut indie music video Turbo Killer, which you can watch below. It tells the story of "an A.I. escaping its spaceship then turning into a female ghost who will challenge two blade runners to a galactic chase." Here's the synopsis for Blood Machine:
Two space hunters are tracking down a machine trying to free itself. After taking it down, they witness a mystical phenomenon: the ghost of a young woman pulls itself out of the machine, as if the spaceship had a soul. Trying to understand the nature of this entity,...
- 7/19/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
"Prepare the ceremony, we've lost enough time." An nifty teaser trailer has launched for a new sci-fi space opera titled Blood Machines, an epic indie production from a French filmmaking duo that goes under the name "Seth Ickerman" (of Kaydara previously). Blood Machines is a 30-minute short film sequel to the Carpenter Brut indie music video "Turbo Killer" (also watchable below), which tells the story of "an A.I. escaping its spaceship then turning into a female ghost who will challenge two blade runners to an galactic chase." This looks massively ambitious even though it was made on a tiny budget by two young filmmakers, who were inspired by "the 80's, Synthwave and classical ScFy movies." Starring Elisa Lasowski, Anders Heinrichsen, and Christian Erickson, featuring synth music by Carpenter Brut, of course. Volume up. Here's the first teaser trailer (+ poster) for Seth Ickerman's Blood Machines, direct from YouTube: And...
- 7/18/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Gold Coast
Written by Daniel Dencik and Sara Isabella Jønsson Vedde
Directed by Daniel Dencik
Denmark, 2015
Stories about slavery can be a tricky proposition, especially if your story is from the Caucasian point of view, because there is a delicate balance to be struck when considering the protagonist’s actions and motivations. If the character doesn’t do enough to fight slavery, they can come off as too complicit in the act itself and their motivations can feel unjustified, while if they are portrayed as the slave’s sole liberator it reinforces the “white saviour” stereotype and robs the black characters of any agency. This is the problem inherent in Daniel Dencik’s Gold Coast which has its heart in the right place but which focuses too much on how slavery makes a white man feel bad while reducing the slave characters themselves to something resembling window dressing.
It’s...
Written by Daniel Dencik and Sara Isabella Jønsson Vedde
Directed by Daniel Dencik
Denmark, 2015
Stories about slavery can be a tricky proposition, especially if your story is from the Caucasian point of view, because there is a delicate balance to be struck when considering the protagonist’s actions and motivations. If the character doesn’t do enough to fight slavery, they can come off as too complicit in the act itself and their motivations can feel unjustified, while if they are portrayed as the slave’s sole liberator it reinforces the “white saviour” stereotype and robs the black characters of any agency. This is the problem inherent in Daniel Dencik’s Gold Coast which has its heart in the right place but which focuses too much on how slavery makes a white man feel bad while reducing the slave characters themselves to something resembling window dressing.
It’s...
- 10/9/2015
- by Liam Dunn
- SoundOnSight
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