The Girl

Film Information:
Year:

2009

The Girl

País:

 

Director:

Fredrik Edfeldt

Color:

Color

Format:

35 mm

Duration:

95 min

Cast:

  • Blanca Engström,
  • Shanti Roney,
  • Annika Hallin,
  • Calle Lindqvist,
  • Tova Magnusson-Norling

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Karin Arrhenius
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Hoyte van Hoytema
  • MONTAJE: Bernhard Winkler, Therese Elfström, Malin Lindström
  • PRODUCCIÓN: David Olsson

Contact:

  • Swedish Film Institute
  • Gunnar Almér
  • Associate Director - Int’l Dept.
  • Box 271 26 / Borgvaegen 1-5
  • 102 52 Stockholm, Sweden
  • T +46 8 665 1208
  • +46 70 640 4656
  • F +46 8 666 3698
  • E gunnar.almer@sfi.se
  • W www.swedishfilm.org

Synopsis

Original title: Flickan

The year is 1981. A couple committed to humanitarian causes is about to go on a trip to African territory. They decide their daughter is too young to go with them. The nine year-old girl is left at the care of a relative, but will soon find herself alone in the house: at her age, this kind of freedom is like jumping from a cliff. Short of dialogues but with images that speak for themselves, the film benefits from the cinematography of Hoyte van Hoytema (known for his work on Let the Right One In) and an outstanding cast of children, starting from the young lead Blanca Engström. The film’s atmosphere goes from the familiar to the ominous as easily as a ball rolls through sloping ground. There’s something from British writer Ian McEwan’s early and darker short stories throbbing behind the innocent suburban landscape; an intangible menace that hovers over this skinny nameless girl in every shot’s clear but deceptive density.

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