In its latest stakes on bold scandi features, Copenhagen-based sales and aggregation house Levalak has chosen world rights for the Swedish feature “Live a Little” (“Leva Light”), which has a world premiere in Goteburg in the last weekend. Great response is obtained. , Where it scored the SEK 50,000 ($ 4,500) Angelo Award from the Church in Sweden for the best New Swedish cinema release.
The photo is assigned on 1 February for the Festival’s Hefty Secoss 400,000 ($ 36,000) Dragon Prize-Best Nordic film.
Young-oriented feature, about the difficulty in determining gray areas of consent and boundaries, marks Fanny Oves’ feature debut, nominated for a crystal bear in Berlin for his short film “Xi-Pack” . Experienced manufacturer Mary Kejelson, credited for, Ruben östlundKjellson produces “Force Magure” for Wik.
The story follows the two young Swedish girls, Laura and her best friends Alex, as they leave for a fun sofa surfing trip across Europe. But after a wild party in her first stop-over in Warsaw, Laura gets naked, having sex with a stranger. It is unable to remember what really happened, she sets on a whole new journey to detect her body and boundaries. As soon as flashbacks pop up from that night, he starts doubting. Was Varsaw’s consent that night that night?
“Live A Little” is refreshed, “Levalak founder and CEO Tin Clint said about his latest pick up.” It tells a powerful and intimate story about navigating and finding himself; Honest and hearty! “
Owen said that the initial point for the feature was one such painful event that a friend of him tolerated.
“What happened to my friend that she was naked next to a man, because we were surfing the couch. He had a complete blackout, and found herself very easy to see himself as a stupid mistake and instead of identifying as a rape victim, instead of being unfaithful to her lover. This was an identity crisis that I wanted to find on the screen, “the director said, who was eager to bring ahead” something big. ,
“It is about being young and trying to navigate relationships and intimacy, how difficult it is to determine the boundaries and not only in non-consenting situations, but also in people with consent.”
In the creative process, an important element and thread female was to look at the story from the stagnation, Oveson explained.
Instead of just switching to male gaze “for a woman’s purposeful perspective on men,” she tries to get closer to the characters, both visually, supporting your cinematographer Matias Pool (“Dil explosion”) With, and in, and in, and in the character-building, which includes the depiction of Laura’s lover and the man she spends the night during her blackout. “I wanted young men in the audience to be able to identify them, hoping that it could give birth to some important soul-and-face,” he said.
Regardless of the difficult-but pressure-subject object, Owason said that tone-wise, his intention was to make a vibrant, thrilling and funny road-movie in a foreign universe, the couch surfing community that is full of amazing people. ,
To feel a multi-cultural vibe and authenticity, the young director brought non-professors with different backgrounds, in the lead, next to the Eba England-Sunderburg (Netflix’s “Carocell”), Aviva Vered (” Hashtag “) as its best friend and French Rising Star Oscar Less (” The Substance, “” Mary-Antonate “) as opponent.
Oweson told Diversity He hopes that his film ‘Tiger the senses of both the audience “and” lead for good interaction “about the gray areas of boundaries and consent.
“Live A Little” was co-produced by Norway’s True Content Production Renee Hensn Molodissevski, Denmark’s Strome Pictures and Monica Helstrom of the film Eye West. Executive producer is Kim Magnson of Scandinavian film distribution and Thomas Robsham of the Melon. Co-assistance included Swedish Film Institute, Urime, Norwegian Film Institute, The Danish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Czech Film Fund Production Inscents, Creative Europe Media, Lindholman Science Park and Yale. The leading arthouse expert Triore handles domestic release.
Levelk’s Goteburg Slate also takes the Nordic Lights Entries of the Festival by “Home” by Charlot Ceiling and by Paula Korva in “Sudden Emotion of Emotion”.
