Writer-director Josh Lawson’s Long Story Short follows serial procrastinator Teddy (Rafe Spall) who thinks he has all the time in the world. But after an odd encounter with a stranger (Noni Hazlehurst), he wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that he’s jumped forward a year in his life to his first anniversary. His wife Leanne (Zahra Newman) is now heavily pregnant, with a full year of marriage behind them that he doesn’t remember living. Trapped in a cycle of time jumps, transported another year ahead every few minutes, Teddy is faced with a race against time as his life crumbles around him. With the help of his best friend Sam (Ronny Chieng), Teddy tries to piece together where it all went wrong and, as his life flashes before his eyes, Teddy must learn how to live life in the precious moments to win back the woman he loves,...
- 1/12/2021
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
The Sorrows of Milf: Dyrholm Puts the Extra in Extra-Marital as the Star of el-Toukhy’s Uncomfortable Drama
Danish director May el-Toukhy crafts a compelling melodrama out of a sordid scenario in her sophomore film, Queen of Hearts, which reunites her with Trine Dyrholm, who was a supporting player in el-Toukhy’s 2015 debut Long Story Short. Dyrholm is front and center this time around as a more-or-less contented wife and mother with a successful career who suddenly makes some reckless choices, the consequences of which threaten the stability of her home. While Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland provides us with the titular subtexts for Dyrholm’s undeniably selfish but understandably human drives and desires, el-Toukhy takes a masterful, clear-eyed approach with material more comparable to the likes of D.H.…...
Danish director May el-Toukhy crafts a compelling melodrama out of a sordid scenario in her sophomore film, Queen of Hearts, which reunites her with Trine Dyrholm, who was a supporting player in el-Toukhy’s 2015 debut Long Story Short. Dyrholm is front and center this time around as a more-or-less contented wife and mother with a successful career who suddenly makes some reckless choices, the consequences of which threaten the stability of her home. While Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland provides us with the titular subtexts for Dyrholm’s undeniably selfish but understandably human drives and desires, el-Toukhy takes a masterful, clear-eyed approach with material more comparable to the likes of D.H.…...
- 11/2/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Studiocanal, Europe’s biggest film production-distribution force, is introducing to buyers six new titles at next week’s American Film Market that play to its privileged talent relationships and content fortes, led by prestige European drama “Louis Wain,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
Further market premieres for Studiocanal, owned by Vivendi’s Canal Plus Group, are “Long Short Story,” starring Rafe Spall and directed by Academy Award-nominated Josh Lawson and “Night Shift,” toplining Omar Sy and Virginie Efira and directed by Anne Fontaine (“Coco Before Channel”).
Among other new market titles: “The Wolf and the Lion,” a follow-up to“Mia and the Lion”; and buzzed-up Spanish genre movie “42 Malasaña Street.”
Leading what may well be Studiocanal’s strongest slate ever in terms of strength in depth, the market premieres will bow in Santa Monica as Studiocanal looks to sell out on banner title “Gunpowder Milkshake.” Of major territories, only the U.S,...
Further market premieres for Studiocanal, owned by Vivendi’s Canal Plus Group, are “Long Short Story,” starring Rafe Spall and directed by Academy Award-nominated Josh Lawson and “Night Shift,” toplining Omar Sy and Virginie Efira and directed by Anne Fontaine (“Coco Before Channel”).
Among other new market titles: “The Wolf and the Lion,” a follow-up to“Mia and the Lion”; and buzzed-up Spanish genre movie “42 Malasaña Street.”
Leading what may well be Studiocanal’s strongest slate ever in terms of strength in depth, the market premieres will bow in Santa Monica as Studiocanal looks to sell out on banner title “Gunpowder Milkshake.” Of major territories, only the U.S,...
- 11/1/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Queen of Hearts has already racked up an impressive list of prizes.
May el-Toukhy’s Danish drama Queen of Hearts won the prestigious and lucrative Nordic Council Film Prize 2019 last night (Oct 29) in Stockholm.
She shares the $52,000 award with screenwriter Maren Louise Käehne and producers Caroline Blanco and René Ezra.
Trine Dyrholm stars as Anne, a lawyer, mother and wife who begins a dangerous affair with her stepson (Gustav Lindh).
The jury said: “Is it about a midlife crisis? About class? Or about desire and passion? Is she a sex violator? Or a psychopath? We are used to movies serving a clear point,...
May el-Toukhy’s Danish drama Queen of Hearts won the prestigious and lucrative Nordic Council Film Prize 2019 last night (Oct 29) in Stockholm.
She shares the $52,000 award with screenwriter Maren Louise Käehne and producers Caroline Blanco and René Ezra.
Trine Dyrholm stars as Anne, a lawyer, mother and wife who begins a dangerous affair with her stepson (Gustav Lindh).
The jury said: “Is it about a midlife crisis? About class? Or about desire and passion? Is she a sex violator? Or a psychopath? We are used to movies serving a clear point,...
- 10/30/2019
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Rafe Spall, whose credits include “The Big Short” and “Shaun of the Dead,” leads the cast of romantic comedy “Long Story Short.” Studiocanal will handle worldwide sales on the film, which starts to shoot on Monday in Sydney, Australia.
The movie is written and directed by Josh Lawson, who was Oscar nominated last year for short film “The Eleven O’Clock.” Lawson’s first feature, “The Little Death,” premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2014, won the SXSW Audience Award the following year, and was released in more than 30 territories. It has been remade in four languages, most notably in Spanish as “Kiki Love to Love,” which did more than one million admissions in Spain.
The ensemble cast of “Long Story Short” includes Zahra Newman (“Wentworth”), actor/comedian Ronny Chieng (“Crazy Rich Asians”), Noni Hazlehurst (“A Place to Call Home”), Dena Kaplan (“Dance Academy”) and Lawson (“Anchor Man”).
The story...
The movie is written and directed by Josh Lawson, who was Oscar nominated last year for short film “The Eleven O’Clock.” Lawson’s first feature, “The Little Death,” premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2014, won the SXSW Audience Award the following year, and was released in more than 30 territories. It has been remade in four languages, most notably in Spanish as “Kiki Love to Love,” which did more than one million admissions in Spain.
The ensemble cast of “Long Story Short” includes Zahra Newman (“Wentworth”), actor/comedian Ronny Chieng (“Crazy Rich Asians”), Noni Hazlehurst (“A Place to Call Home”), Dena Kaplan (“Dance Academy”) and Lawson (“Anchor Man”).
The story...
- 8/23/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Shoot is under way in Sydney, Australia, on rom-com Long Story Short, starring Rafe Spall (I Give It A Year), Zahra Newman, (Truth), Ronny Chieng (Crazy Rich Asians), Noni Hazlehurst (A Place To Call Home), Dena Kaplan (Dance Academy) and Josh Lawson (Anchor Man).
Lawson directs his original screenplay, which is backed by Screen Australia and sold by Studiocanal. Jamie Hilton is producing alongside Michael Pontin and Isabel Stanfield for See Pictures, marking a second collaboration with Lawson after their Toronto break-out The Little Death in 2014.
The story follows Teddy (Spall), who wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that every few minutes he’s jumping forward to the next year of his life. He must use every precious moment wisely to keep from losing the love of his life, and to learn to love the life he’s losing.
Create Nsw and Spectrum Films are also also part of the production team.
Lawson directs his original screenplay, which is backed by Screen Australia and sold by Studiocanal. Jamie Hilton is producing alongside Michael Pontin and Isabel Stanfield for See Pictures, marking a second collaboration with Lawson after their Toronto break-out The Little Death in 2014.
The story follows Teddy (Spall), who wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that every few minutes he’s jumping forward to the next year of his life. He must use every precious moment wisely to keep from losing the love of his life, and to learn to love the life he’s losing.
Create Nsw and Spectrum Films are also also part of the production team.
- 8/23/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has renewed Danish Original drama series The Rain for a third and final season.
The internet network announced the news Wednesday on Twitter.
In The Rain, the world as we know it has ended. Six years after a brutal virus carried by the rain wipes out almost all humans in Scandinavia, two Danish siblings emerge from the safety of their bunker to find all remnants of civilization gone. Soon they join a group of young survivors and together set out on a danger-filled quest through an abandoned Scandinavia, searching for any sign of life.
Set free from their collective past and societal rules, the group has the freedom to be who they want to be. In their struggle for survival, they discover that even in a post-apocalyptic world there’s still love, jealousy, and many of the coming of age dilemmas they thought they’d left behind with the...
The internet network announced the news Wednesday on Twitter.
In The Rain, the world as we know it has ended. Six years after a brutal virus carried by the rain wipes out almost all humans in Scandinavia, two Danish siblings emerge from the safety of their bunker to find all remnants of civilization gone. Soon they join a group of young survivors and together set out on a danger-filled quest through an abandoned Scandinavia, searching for any sign of life.
Set free from their collective past and societal rules, the group has the freedom to be who they want to be. In their struggle for survival, they discover that even in a post-apocalyptic world there’s still love, jealousy, and many of the coming of age dilemmas they thought they’d left behind with the...
- 6/19/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
berlinMay el-Toukhy’s second feature stars Trine Dyrholm.
TrustNordisk has sealed a number of deals on May el-Toukhy’s Sundance hit Queen Of Hearts, which had a packed market screening at Efm on Friday night.
The film has sold to Benelux (September Films), South Korea (Lumix), Mexico (Cinemex), Israel (Lev Cinema), Greece (Weird Wave), Hungary (Ads service) and Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe).
Queen Of Hearts won Sundance’s audience award (world cinema dramatic) and the film also recently picked up Goteborg’s Dragon Award, which is the world’s most lucrative film award with a cash prize of...
TrustNordisk has sealed a number of deals on May el-Toukhy’s Sundance hit Queen Of Hearts, which had a packed market screening at Efm on Friday night.
The film has sold to Benelux (September Films), South Korea (Lumix), Mexico (Cinemex), Israel (Lev Cinema), Greece (Weird Wave), Hungary (Ads service) and Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe).
Queen Of Hearts won Sundance’s audience award (world cinema dramatic) and the film also recently picked up Goteborg’s Dragon Award, which is the world’s most lucrative film award with a cash prize of...
- 2/10/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Similar to Richard Laymon's One Rainy Night, precipitation is perilous in Netflix's new Danish seres The Rain, and ahead of the show's May 4th premiere in the Us, a new trailer takes viewers into a post-apocalyptic Scandinavia where signs of life are scarce and dangers lurk within the clouds.
"The world as we know it has ended. Six years after a brutal virus carried by the rain wiped out almost all humans in Scandinavia, two Danish siblings emerge from the safety of their bunker to find all remnants of civilization gone. Soon they join a group of young survivors and together set out on a danger-filled quest through abandoned Scandinavia, searching for any sign of life.
Set free from their collective past and societal rules the group has the freedom to be who they want to be. In their struggle for survival, they discover that even in a...
"The world as we know it has ended. Six years after a brutal virus carried by the rain wiped out almost all humans in Scandinavia, two Danish siblings emerge from the safety of their bunker to find all remnants of civilization gone. Soon they join a group of young survivors and together set out on a danger-filled quest through abandoned Scandinavia, searching for any sign of life.
Set free from their collective past and societal rules the group has the freedom to be who they want to be. In their struggle for survival, they discover that even in a...
- 4/25/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
In a world where precipitation carries a deadly virus, an umbrella isn't just an item of luxury, it's a necessary tool for survival. Calling to mind post-apocalyptic films and Richard Laymon's One Rainy Night (one of my favorite infection novels of all time), the new teaser trailer for Netflix's series The Rain may have you digging out your yellow slicker (just don't walk by any sewer drains while wearing it).
You can watch the teaser trailer below and read on for additional details before The Rain arrives this spring:
"The world as we know it has ended. Six years after a brutal virus carried by the rain wiped out almost all humans in Scandinavia, two Danish siblings emerge from the safety of their bunker to find all remnants of civilisation gone. Soon they join a group of young survivors and together set out on a danger-filled quest through abandoned Scandinavia,...
You can watch the teaser trailer below and read on for additional details before The Rain arrives this spring:
"The world as we know it has ended. Six years after a brutal virus carried by the rain wiped out almost all humans in Scandinavia, two Danish siblings emerge from the safety of their bunker to find all remnants of civilisation gone. Soon they join a group of young survivors and together set out on a danger-filled quest through abandoned Scandinavia,...
- 1/29/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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