"Shut them down or we won't have an industry." Netflix has revealed the first official trailer for the mini-series The Playlist, arriving this October. This is pretty much The Social Network but about the creation of Spotify, following other series recently about tech businesses – from Uber to WeWork. In this hyper-fictionalized account of the true story: led by Swedish tech entrepreneur Daniel Ek, a group of passionate young people come together in what seems to be the impossible task to revolutionize the music industry - and the world. They set out to create a legal streaming service for music. The series stars Edvin Endre as Daniel Ek, Ulf Stenberg as Per Sundin, Gizem Erdogan as Petra Hansson, Joel Lützow as Andreas Ehn, Christian Hillborg as Martin Lorentzon, and Janice Kamya Kavander as "Bobbie T". Also with Valter Skarsgård, Amy Deasismont, Hanna Ardéhn, Ella Rappich, Agnes Kittelsen, and Sofia Karemyr. This all looks like extremely exaggerated,...
- 9/27/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Swedish series created by Amir Chamdin and Fares Fares, based upon an idea by Mauricio Molinari, won the 3rd edition of the festival’s competition, with Moloch and Red Light also claiming trophies. The 3rd edition of Cannes International Series Festival - Canneseries has awarded its principal prize to the Swedish production Partisan. Created by Amir Chamdin and Fares Fares (who also leads the cast) based upon an original idea by Mauricio Molinari, the series which also stars Johan Rheborg, Sofia Karemyr and Anna Björk recounts the misadventures of Johnny as he enters Jordnära, an idyllic gated community that runs a very successful organic farm, as their new truck driver. He gets to know Nicole and Maria, two foster children who are spending the summer there. He soon starts to suspect trafficking. The more Johnny's concern for the girls grows, the more focus they take from his main mission.
- 10/15/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
★★★☆☆ Mikael Marcimain's Call Girl (2012) arrives on DVD this week following a fruitful festival run, the highlight of which was bagging the Fipresci award at last year's Toronto Film Festival. Inspired by the 1976 Geijer Affair, this is an earnest yet curiously benign period drama about underage solicitation at the utmost stratum of Swedish politics. Set at a time when sexual abuse scandals were front page news and the misogyny within influential institutions was finally being exposed, Call Girl pertinently echoes modern society's mounting fear about the corruption festering at the highest echelons of state influence.
The plot focuses on two teenage girls, Iris (Sofia Karemyr) and Sonja (Josefin Asplund), who both find themselves drawn into a world of sleaze and tabloid scandal. Spanning the five months which foreshadowed Sweden's most inflammatory general election, Marcimain's drama combines a series of lurid flashbacks to illicit parties and courtroom hearings with a taut police procedural,...
The plot focuses on two teenage girls, Iris (Sofia Karemyr) and Sonja (Josefin Asplund), who both find themselves drawn into a world of sleaze and tabloid scandal. Spanning the five months which foreshadowed Sweden's most inflammatory general election, Marcimain's drama combines a series of lurid flashbacks to illicit parties and courtroom hearings with a taut police procedural,...
- 10/29/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Kick-Ass 2 | 2 Guns | Planes | The Big City | Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Again | Bachelorette | Call Girl | Aftershock | Kuma | When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun
Kick-Ass 2 (15)
(Jeff Wadlow, 2013, Us/UK) Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Moretz, Jim Carrey, 103 mins
The amateur Avengers return, though the sequel finds them weighed down by their superhero lifestyles, or is it audience expectations? The ingredients that made the first movie such a pleasure are all here – absurd alter-egos, ultraviolence, high-school angst, swearing – just minus the element of surprise. As a result, this incident-packed story struggles to recapture that balance between comic-book zaniness and real-world teen comedy.
2 Guns (15)
(Baltasar Kormákur, 2013, Us) Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton. 109 mins
Two double-crossed undercover agents must unravel a convoluted conspiracy (and learn to get along, of course) in what could almost be a Lethal Weapon reboot. Washington and Wahlberg spark off each other nicely, which is all that's needed.
Kick-Ass 2 (15)
(Jeff Wadlow, 2013, Us/UK) Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Moretz, Jim Carrey, 103 mins
The amateur Avengers return, though the sequel finds them weighed down by their superhero lifestyles, or is it audience expectations? The ingredients that made the first movie such a pleasure are all here – absurd alter-egos, ultraviolence, high-school angst, swearing – just minus the element of surprise. As a result, this incident-packed story struggles to recapture that balance between comic-book zaniness and real-world teen comedy.
2 Guns (15)
(Baltasar Kormákur, 2013, Us) Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton. 109 mins
Two double-crossed undercover agents must unravel a convoluted conspiracy (and learn to get along, of course) in what could almost be a Lethal Weapon reboot. Washington and Wahlberg spark off each other nicely, which is all that's needed.
- 8/17/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
It's all bad hair and worse sexual ethics in this visually sharp Swedish thriller about an infamous scandal
Mikael Marcimain's Call Girl is a downbeat conspiracy picture set in the Instagram-filter 1970s: bad hair, fag-ash, reel-to-reel tape decks capable of playing both cheesy disco and phone-tapped tape recordings, Volvos and Mercs the size of tanks pulling up outside fancy intercontinental hotels. It is an interesting if generic thrillerisation of a real-life prostitution scandal in Sweden in the 1970s involving government highups. The film goes further than what appears to have been reported at the time, specifically showing underage girls from a juvenile detention centre getting invited to "parties" and coerced into sex with senior politicians – a nauseating mix of Profumo and Jimmy Savile. Pernilla August plays the sinister procuress, Dagmar Glans, all too obviously horrified by her own declining charms and displacing this anxiety into her work, cooing creepily...
Mikael Marcimain's Call Girl is a downbeat conspiracy picture set in the Instagram-filter 1970s: bad hair, fag-ash, reel-to-reel tape decks capable of playing both cheesy disco and phone-tapped tape recordings, Volvos and Mercs the size of tanks pulling up outside fancy intercontinental hotels. It is an interesting if generic thrillerisation of a real-life prostitution scandal in Sweden in the 1970s involving government highups. The film goes further than what appears to have been reported at the time, specifically showing underage girls from a juvenile detention centre getting invited to "parties" and coerced into sex with senior politicians – a nauseating mix of Profumo and Jimmy Savile. Pernilla August plays the sinister procuress, Dagmar Glans, all too obviously horrified by her own declining charms and displacing this anxiety into her work, cooing creepily...
- 8/15/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The darker side to the 1970s sex industry has been explored extensively in film this year, with both The Look of Love and Lovelace taking a candid look into the seedy and precarious livelihood from such a time. However it’s no surprise whatsoever to see the Scandinavians handle the subject matter the most delicately and efficiently, in Mikael Marcimain’s compelling drama Call Girl.
Inspired by real events that shook Sweden in 1976, we delve into the life of the troubled 14-year-old Iris (Sofia Karemyr), who is sent to a juvenile home following bad behaviour. Escaping at nights to go out with her cousin Sonja (Josefin Asplund), the pair are soon enticed into a world of prostitution by the extravagant Dagmar Glans (Pernilla August), hand-picked to serve some of the most powerful men in Sweden – with political ministers amongst the upper class clientele. However as police detective John (Simon J. Berger) is on their tail,...
Inspired by real events that shook Sweden in 1976, we delve into the life of the troubled 14-year-old Iris (Sofia Karemyr), who is sent to a juvenile home following bad behaviour. Escaping at nights to go out with her cousin Sonja (Josefin Asplund), the pair are soon enticed into a world of prostitution by the extravagant Dagmar Glans (Pernilla August), hand-picked to serve some of the most powerful men in Sweden – with political ministers amongst the upper class clientele. However as police detective John (Simon J. Berger) is on their tail,...
- 8/14/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Call Girl
Directed by Mikael Marcimain
Written by Mikael Marcimain
Sweden / Norway, 2012
In 2012, a controversy swept through Sweden based upon a film titled Call Girl. The film was based upon a real-life scandal in the 1970s, when a madam named Doris Hope was convicted of running a prostitution ring that serviced clients in the highest levels of government. The film asserted that Hope committed much worse crimes as well, with the assistance of many of the officials who employed her. Call Girl has finally arrived in the United States as a part of the Film Comment Selects film festival, and it’s not hard to see where the controversy came from. The film is well-made, but does little to earn its “inspired by a true story” title card.
Iris Dahl (Sofia Karemyr) is a 14-year-old girl who lands in a group home after her mother can’t keep her under control.
Directed by Mikael Marcimain
Written by Mikael Marcimain
Sweden / Norway, 2012
In 2012, a controversy swept through Sweden based upon a film titled Call Girl. The film was based upon a real-life scandal in the 1970s, when a madam named Doris Hope was convicted of running a prostitution ring that serviced clients in the highest levels of government. The film asserted that Hope committed much worse crimes as well, with the assistance of many of the officials who employed her. Call Girl has finally arrived in the United States as a part of the Film Comment Selects film festival, and it’s not hard to see where the controversy came from. The film is well-made, but does little to earn its “inspired by a true story” title card.
Iris Dahl (Sofia Karemyr) is a 14-year-old girl who lands in a group home after her mother can’t keep her under control.
- 2/26/2013
- by Mark Young
- SoundOnSight
Call Girl Trailer, Photo. Mikael Marcimain‘s Call Girl (2012) movie trailer, movie photo stars Sofia Karemyr, David Dencik, Pernilla August, Ruth Vega Fernandez, and Kristoffer Joner. Call Girl‘s plot synopsis: “Stockholm, late 70′s. The model utopian society. Political neutrality and atomic power march hand in hand with women’s liberation and the sexual revolution. But under the [...]
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- 8/30/2012
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
After a string of announcements, it looks like the Toronto International Film Festival have locked down their line-up and it’s looking like a fantastic slate. Much of the additions today come in the form of previous Cannes premieres, including Michael Haneke‘s Amour (review), Cristian Mungiu‘s Beyond the Hills (review), Abbas Kiarostami‘s Like Someone in Love (review), Bernardo Bertolucci‘s Me and You (review), Hong Sang-soo‘s In Another Country and the Venice premiere Olivier Assayas‘ Something in the Air. Most notably missing is Leos Carax‘s Holy Motors, but we do get a new Michael Winterbottom film titled Everyday. Out of the Discovery section, the biggest film seems to be The Brass Teapot, and indie drama starring Juno Temple and Michael Angarano and one can check out all the additions below.
Masters
Amour Michael Haneke, Austria/France/Germany North American Premiere Screen legends Jean-Louis Trintignant and...
Masters
Amour Michael Haneke, Austria/France/Germany North American Premiere Screen legends Jean-Louis Trintignant and...
- 8/21/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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