COMPETITION
© DR
My Wonderful Stranger
Min fantastiske fremmede
Johanna Pyykkö
2024 - Norway / France / Sweden - 1h40
Screenings :
thursday 25 - 9:45 pm - Centre de congrès - Auditorium - presented by the film director
friday 26 - 1:45 pm - Grand Théâtre - followed by a debate with the film director
Lonely 18-year-old Ebba works in the port of Oslo. One evening, she discovers a handsome man lying on the ground with a head injury. Realising that he has amnesia, she tricks him into believing that they are lovers and builds a world for them based on lies. But little by little, Ebba realises that hers may not be the worst deceit...
Johanna Pyykkö is part Finnish part Swedish and lives in Oslo, Norway. She was Joachim Trier's assistant on Thelma and helped write the successful series Heimebane. Her short film The Manila Lover was presented at the 58th Critics' Week. This is an acerbic yet sensual exploration of the relationships of domination and desire within a love story between a Norwegian man and a Filipino woman. Min fantastiske fremmede (My Wonderful Stranger) was developed at the Critics' Week Next Step workshop in 2019. Its screening this year at Premiers Plans is a world premiere.
CAST AND CREW
Cast : Radoslav Vladimirov, Camilla Godø Krohn
Screenplay : Jørgen Færøy Flasnes, Johanna Pyykkö
Cinematography : Torbjørn Sundal Holen
Music : Delphine Malaussena, Jakob Lindhagen
Production : Bathysphere Productions, Eye Eye Pictures, Garagefilm International, MB17, Oslo Pictures
French distributor : Pyramide