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FALKENBERG FAREWELL SELECTED TO REPRESENT SWEDEN AT THE OSCARS 2007
03/10/2006
Jesper Ganslandt's debut feature Falkenberg Farewell has been selected by the Guldbagge jury as Sweden’s entry for this year’s Oscar nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
The film was first shown in Venice Days – Giornate degli Autori .
Fabio Ferzetti, who selected the film together with the foreign consultants, wrote about Falkenberg Farewell and its author in the Venice Days catalogue:
The last summer in Falkenberg, a town on the Swedish coast, a triumph of woods, sea, physical and economical well-being. Five young men, childhood friends, together for life – or maybe not. And the indefinable but stifling feeling that youth is ending, that maybe they will never go away from there, that nothing will be the same again…All skilfully fragmented and orchestrated in a polyphony of voices and glances which are echoed by a sense of Nature and of its mystery that casts the debut of this young Swede director in the company of the Gus Van Sants, and the Terrence Malicks, of all those directors that are able to see in the splendour of bodies and landscapes glory and it’s reprisal, the richness of life and the inexorable, serene looming of the end. From Sweden, a country that recently seemed to be resting on its laurels, one of the most impressive debuts of the last decade. The discovery of a talent which is may be closer to the (forgotten?) teachings of Bo Widerberg than to those (impracticable?) of Bergman. But already incredibly mature and self-assured.
After Venice, the movie has been shown in Toronto’s Discovery Programme and then platformed domestically at the Umeå International Film Festival, where it won the award as Best Film and the Audience Award.
Falkenberg Farewell was produced Anna Anthony (Memfis Film) and co-produced with Film i Väst, SVT in Sweden and with Zentropa Entertainments24 in Denmark. It was also supported by the Swedish Film Institute and Canal+ Television.
International sales agent Trust Film Sales just sold it to Filmfreak Distibutie for Benelux and to Hollywood Entertainment for Greece.
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