A heifer with dreams of stardom turns to her retired rock star dad for advice in this strange, candy-coloured family animation
If you see just one Norwegian animated film featuring a bull being treated for Bse with electroshock therapy, make sure it’s Cattle Hill. Offering a possibly troubling glimpse into the national psyche, director Lise I Osvoll and screenwriter Anne Elvedal’s deceptively candy-coloured film aimed at the family audience revolves around a teenage cow called Klara, living in the city with her divorced mother. Klara dreams of winning a talent competition, or even just having a talent, and decides to visit her retired rock star dad at his bucolic farm in search of tuition and bonding.
But the poor bull seems to have lost his mind, and is convinced some nefarious rascal, invisible to everyone else, is stealing from him and ruining his life. Meanwhile, an evil porcine...
If you see just one Norwegian animated film featuring a bull being treated for Bse with electroshock therapy, make sure it’s Cattle Hill. Offering a possibly troubling glimpse into the national psyche, director Lise I Osvoll and screenwriter Anne Elvedal’s deceptively candy-coloured film aimed at the family audience revolves around a teenage cow called Klara, living in the city with her divorced mother. Klara dreams of winning a talent competition, or even just having a talent, and decides to visit her retired rock star dad at his bucolic farm in search of tuition and bonding.
But the poor bull seems to have lost his mind, and is convinced some nefarious rascal, invisible to everyone else, is stealing from him and ruining his life. Meanwhile, an evil porcine...
- 11/20/2019
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Box office hit sells to UK, Benelux, South Kore and more.
Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has racked up early sales on family animation Cattle Hill, which recently opened top of the box office in its native Norway.
The film has sold to UK (Kaleidoscope), Middle East (Empire), Benelux (Just Film), Russia (Ten Letters) and South Korea (L Company), with further territories likely to be inked in the coming days.
Released by Nordisk Film in Norway on Oct 19, the film topped the likes of A Star Is Born, Venom and fellow animation Smallfoot with a $400,000 debut. This weekend (Oct 26-...
Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has racked up early sales on family animation Cattle Hill, which recently opened top of the box office in its native Norway.
The film has sold to UK (Kaleidoscope), Middle East (Empire), Benelux (Just Film), Russia (Ten Letters) and South Korea (L Company), with further territories likely to be inked in the coming days.
Released by Nordisk Film in Norway on Oct 19, the film topped the likes of A Star Is Born, Venom and fellow animation Smallfoot with a $400,000 debut. This weekend (Oct 26-...
- 11/1/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
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