Christian Slater (mr robot), Dree Hemingway (little star), and Danish star Trine Dyrholm (Queen of Hearts) has signed on to act intimacy eventsFrom director Jasper Just. Johannes Lleorre, Julie Agnete Wang, Laura Dresbach and Michael Moritzen will co-star.
The low-budget feature will mark Just’s directorial debut, and the second in producer Zentropa’s new Dogma25 slate of ambitious arthouse features.
Dyrholm, whose credits include the Oscar-winning Susan Bier in a better worldmagnus von horn girl with needle and Nikolaj Arcel a royal affairWill play Linda, an intimacy coordinator who struggles to form intimate relationships. Unable to accept or access her feelings, she steals objects from people rather than getting close to them, storing her loot in a collection of intimacy items in her closet.
Slater returns to Danish cinema after co-starring Lars von Trier in this project nymphomaniac.
Just is known as a visual artist. He represented Denmark at the 2013 Venice Biennale and has presented solo exhibitions around the world. Much of her work deconstructs traditional representations of gender, love, social norms in mainstream cinema. intimacy events This will be his first feature as a director. Just wrote the script together with Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen (quiet stay).
The film will be the second film produced under the Dogma25 label, a slate of artistic features made under a strict “oath of purity” that requires directors to adhere to a number of enforced restrictions, including keeping the crew to a maximum of ten people, at least half of the film being dialogue-free, and a ban on Internet use for research or development. Each film has a maximum budget of 10 million Danish krone (approximately $1.5 million), with support from Zentropa, Danish public broadcaster DR and Nordisk Film Distribution. All films will be released theatrically in Denmark through Nordisk Film, with Netflix taking streaming rights in the Nordics. TrustNordisk is handling world sales.
Zentropa presented the group’s five directors at the Cannes Film Festival last year: Just, May Al-Toukhi (Queen of Hearts), Milad Alami (rival), Anika Berg (team storm), and Isabella Eklöf (art). The group’s name is derived from the Dogme 95 movement, created by Danish directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg (Celebration) Christian Levering (the king is alive) and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (mifune), another back-to-basics film movement that is credited with reviving indie cinema in the late ’90s.
The movement has already inspired a similar project in Germany with director Tom Tykwer (run lola run), Ilkar Catak (teacher’s lounge), Nora Fingscheidt (move on), Helen Hegemann (axolotl overkill) and Kurdwin Ayub (Mond) announcing their own Dogma 25 slate.