"Shut them down or we won't have an industry." Netflix has revealed the first official trailer for the mini-series The Playlist, arriving this October. This is pretty much The Social Network but about the creation of Spotify, following other series recently about tech businesses – from Uber to WeWork. In this hyper-fictionalized account of the true story: led by Swedish tech entrepreneur Daniel Ek, a group of passionate young people come together in what seems to be the impossible task to revolutionize the music industry - and the world. They set out to create a legal streaming service for music. The series stars Edvin Endre as Daniel Ek, Ulf Stenberg as Per Sundin, Gizem Erdogan as Petra Hansson, Joel Lützow as Andreas Ehn, Christian Hillborg as Martin Lorentzon, and Janice Kamya Kavander as "Bobbie T". Also with Valter Skarsgård, Amy Deasismont, Hanna Ardéhn, Ella Rappich, Agnes Kittelsen, and Sofia Karemyr. This all looks like extremely exaggerated,...
- 9/27/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
GÖTEBORG, Sweden — Scandi sales shingle The Yellow Affair has added to its Göteborg lineup the Swedish series “The Chosen Ones” (“Det Utvalda”), currently playing on Swedish pubcaster Svt’s streaming service Svt Play.
The short form sci-fi thriller stars a strong Swedish female cast of model-turned actress Frida Gustavsson (“Swoon”), singer/actress Amy Deasismont, Felice Jankell (“Young Sophie Bell”), Tind Soneby (“Modus”), Segal Mohamed, Isabella Touma Pettersson and Astrid Morberg.
Liza Morberg, Christian Hallman and Stina Hammar direct, from a screenplay by Leif Alexis and Henrik Lilliér. Erik Magnusson produces for top Swedish indie Anagram.
The show kicks off with 12 girls who wake up in a secluded mansion, without knowing how or why they got there. As they realize they are locked in, the situation in the house threatens to escalate. But the mansion also harbors a dark secret. The girls are part of a medical experiment. If they don...
The short form sci-fi thriller stars a strong Swedish female cast of model-turned actress Frida Gustavsson (“Swoon”), singer/actress Amy Deasismont, Felice Jankell (“Young Sophie Bell”), Tind Soneby (“Modus”), Segal Mohamed, Isabella Touma Pettersson and Astrid Morberg.
Liza Morberg, Christian Hallman and Stina Hammar direct, from a screenplay by Leif Alexis and Henrik Lilliér. Erik Magnusson produces for top Swedish indie Anagram.
The show kicks off with 12 girls who wake up in a secluded mansion, without knowing how or why they got there. As they realize they are locked in, the situation in the house threatens to escalate. But the mansion also harbors a dark secret. The girls are part of a medical experiment. If they don...
- 1/28/2020
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Europe has released the first-look teaser trailer for Lukas Moodysson’s upcoming TV comedy series “Gosta.” The highly-anticipated show marks the acclaimed Swedish filmmaker’s first foray into television and was HBO’s first commissioned drama series out of Scandinavia.
The eponymous Gosta (Vilhelm Blomgren) is a 28-year old child psychologist who gets his first job in a small rural town. He wants to be the kindest person in the world and help everyone he meets, but sometimes it goes better than others. Amy Deasismont and Mattias Silvell also star as Gosta’s girlfriend and father, respectively. The trailer opens and closes with the three leads on a car journey.
The show was written and directed by Moodysson, with the trailer’s comedic tone akin to titles like 2000’s “Together” and 2013’s “We Are the Best!” among the director’s feature work. The first four 30-minute episodes will debut...
The eponymous Gosta (Vilhelm Blomgren) is a 28-year old child psychologist who gets his first job in a small rural town. He wants to be the kindest person in the world and help everyone he meets, but sometimes it goes better than others. Amy Deasismont and Mattias Silvell also star as Gosta’s girlfriend and father, respectively. The trailer opens and closes with the three leads on a car journey.
The show was written and directed by Moodysson, with the trailer’s comedic tone akin to titles like 2000’s “Together” and 2013’s “We Are the Best!” among the director’s feature work. The first four 30-minute episodes will debut...
- 5/16/2019
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
A Swedish story of sisters bound by love, secrecy and jealousy is given insight and warmth by its director’s personal experience
Swedish writer/director Sanna Lenken describes her admirable debut feature as an attempt to “examine what it means to grow up as a young girl [and] be judged for the way you look and not who you are”. Rebecka Josephson is wonderfully engaging as Stella, the awkward adolescent who discovers with horror that her popular figure-skating sister Katja (Amy Deasismont) is hiding a growing eating disorder. Drawing on personal experience of anorexia, Lenken examines the conflicting web of intimacy and alienation that entraps both sisters and moves with humour and compassion toward resolutions born of honesty, insight and affection.
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Swedish writer/director Sanna Lenken describes her admirable debut feature as an attempt to “examine what it means to grow up as a young girl [and] be judged for the way you look and not who you are”. Rebecka Josephson is wonderfully engaging as Stella, the awkward adolescent who discovers with horror that her popular figure-skating sister Katja (Amy Deasismont) is hiding a growing eating disorder. Drawing on personal experience of anorexia, Lenken examines the conflicting web of intimacy and alienation that entraps both sisters and moves with humour and compassion toward resolutions born of honesty, insight and affection.
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- 11/29/2015
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
The performances are good but the resolution is too smooth in this story of a girl who stumbles upon her idolised elder sister’s eating disorder
Sanna Lenken’s My Skinny Sister is an earnestly intentioned Swedish film about body image, but it wraps up its ideas glibly, like the TV issue movie of the week. At first it looks like a challenging drama about sibling rivalry and sibling dysfunction – something to compare, perhaps, with Catherine Breillat’s À Ma Soeur! or Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies – but the promise of complexity is not fulfilled. Rebecka Josephson plays Stella, the pudgy younger sister of Katja (Amy Deasismont), sleek teen princess and school ice-skating star. Stella is in awe of Katja; she makes tragically lumbering attempts to emulate her prowess on the ice-rink and conceives an embarrassing crush on Katja’s coach. But when she discovers Katja’s bulimia, the whole...
Sanna Lenken’s My Skinny Sister is an earnestly intentioned Swedish film about body image, but it wraps up its ideas glibly, like the TV issue movie of the week. At first it looks like a challenging drama about sibling rivalry and sibling dysfunction – something to compare, perhaps, with Catherine Breillat’s À Ma Soeur! or Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies – but the promise of complexity is not fulfilled. Rebecka Josephson plays Stella, the pudgy younger sister of Katja (Amy Deasismont), sleek teen princess and school ice-skating star. Stella is in awe of Katja; she makes tragically lumbering attempts to emulate her prowess on the ice-rink and conceives an embarrassing crush on Katja’s coach. But when she discovers Katja’s bulimia, the whole...
- 11/26/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★☆ Swedish writer-director Sanna Lenken's notable debut My Skinny Sister (2015) about a young teenager's eating disorder is a simple tale given added poignancy by powerful performances from the two leads. Katja (Amy Deasismont) is a promising young figure skater envied and admired by her younger sister Stella (Rebecka Josephson). Katja is beautiful, svelte and talented while 12-year-old Stella is pudgy and awkward. To complicate matters further, Stella has a crush on Katja's German trainer Jacob (Maxim Mehmet).
- 11/23/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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