Danish director Malou Reymann tells the story of a father transitioning to female with almost too much empathy
Danish director Malou Reymann makes her debut feature with this gentle, open-hearted drama based on her own childhood experience of her dad transitioning to female. The story is told from the perspective of 11-year-old Emma (Kaya Toft Loholt). But Reymann turns the dial on the empathy machine up to 11 – balancing the feelings of all her characters so evenly and with such generosity that in the end I did feel that the niceness of her film left it a bit pale dramatically.
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Danish director Malou Reymann makes her debut feature with this gentle, open-hearted drama based on her own childhood experience of her dad transitioning to female. The story is told from the perspective of 11-year-old Emma (Kaya Toft Loholt). But Reymann turns the dial on the empathy machine up to 11 – balancing the feelings of all her characters so evenly and with such generosity that in the end I did feel that the niceness of her film left it a bit pale dramatically.
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- 10/1/2020
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
The film, inspired by the director’s own life, is about a girl whose relationship with her father changes when he transitions from male to female.
New Europe Film Sales has sold Malou Reymann’s A Perfectly Normal Family to September Film in the Benelux.
Nordisk is releasing the film this week in Denmark, after it recently won the Big Screen Competition in Rotterdam. The film also played in the Nordic competition in Goteborg.
Other territories are in negotiations now.
A Perfectly Normal Family, inspired by the director’s own life, is about a girl whose relationship with her father...
New Europe Film Sales has sold Malou Reymann’s A Perfectly Normal Family to September Film in the Benelux.
Nordisk is releasing the film this week in Denmark, after it recently won the Big Screen Competition in Rotterdam. The film also played in the Nordic competition in Goteborg.
Other territories are in negotiations now.
A Perfectly Normal Family, inspired by the director’s own life, is about a girl whose relationship with her father...
- 2/19/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Director-writer Malou Reymann is perfectly aware that “normal” and “family” are mutually exclusive words — she was 11 when her father transitioned to being a woman, and it’s the memory of what she felt at the time that informs her sensitive and accessible debut, “A Perfectly Normal Family.” Told from the point of view of the younger of two sisters (though not strictly in a Pov manner), the film refreshingly de-sensationalizes her father’s process from Thomas to Agnete, wiping away thoughts of the ludicrous “The Danish Girl” while treating father and daughter in an admirably evenhanded way. Though disturbingly unaware of her daughter’s inner turmoil, Emma’s father’s almost goofy geniality allows her to stay in the audience’s good graces even while sympathies strongly remain throughout with her younger child. Winner of Rotterdam’s Vpro Big Screen Award, which comes with a €30,000 prize as well as guaranteed Dutch distribution,...
- 2/6/2020
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Variety has been given exclusive access to the international trailer of the Danish film “A Perfectly Normal Family,” due to compete both at Rotterdam’s Big Screen Competition, and at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Competition.
Malou Reyman’s debut feature has been a hot property for sales agent New Europe Film Sales, ever since it was sneak peeked a year ago as a work in progress at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market. “The market response so far has been fantastic and I’m happy that the film has a broader appeal and an opportunity to cross over to the mainstream,” said the company’s CEO Jan Naszewski who has already inked a deal for France with Haut et Court Distribution.
The trailer shows Emma, aged 11, playing soccer with her dad. “Do you have to be so embarrassing?” asks the young girl to her loving dad Thomas, who’s doing his...
Malou Reyman’s debut feature has been a hot property for sales agent New Europe Film Sales, ever since it was sneak peeked a year ago as a work in progress at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market. “The market response so far has been fantastic and I’m happy that the film has a broader appeal and an opportunity to cross over to the mainstream,” said the company’s CEO Jan Naszewski who has already inked a deal for France with Haut et Court Distribution.
The trailer shows Emma, aged 11, playing soccer with her dad. “Do you have to be so embarrassing?” asks the young girl to her loving dad Thomas, who’s doing his...
- 1/25/2020
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
The drama is the directorial debut of Damnish filmmaker Malou Reymann
Haut et Court has acquired French rights to Danish filmmaker Malou Reymann’s debut film A Perfectly Normal Family from New Europe Film Sales and plans to release it in mid-2020.
The film is about a girl whose relationship with her father changes when he transitions from male to female. It has been selected for the Big Screen Competition in Rotterdam with other festivals expected to be confirmed soon.
A Perfectly Normal Family was presented as a work in progress at Goteborg in January and was selected as part...
Haut et Court has acquired French rights to Danish filmmaker Malou Reymann’s debut film A Perfectly Normal Family from New Europe Film Sales and plans to release it in mid-2020.
The film is about a girl whose relationship with her father changes when he transitions from male to female. It has been selected for the Big Screen Competition in Rotterdam with other festivals expected to be confirmed soon.
A Perfectly Normal Family was presented as a work in progress at Goteborg in January and was selected as part...
- 12/19/2019
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The film is Malou Reymann’s feature directorial debut.
New Europe Film Sales has boarded international sales for Danish drama A Perfectly Normal Family, the feature directorial debut of Danish filmmaker Malou Reymann.
The film was presented as a work in progress at Goteborg in January and this afternoon is part of the C EU Soon showcase at Rome’s Mia.
The story follows a girl whose relationship with her father changes when he transitions from male to female.
A Royal Affair’s Mikkel Boe Følsgaard plays the father, and the cast also features Kaya Toft Loholt, Rigmor Rante and Neel Rønholt.
New Europe Film Sales has boarded international sales for Danish drama A Perfectly Normal Family, the feature directorial debut of Danish filmmaker Malou Reymann.
The film was presented as a work in progress at Goteborg in January and this afternoon is part of the C EU Soon showcase at Rome’s Mia.
The story follows a girl whose relationship with her father changes when he transitions from male to female.
A Royal Affair’s Mikkel Boe Følsgaard plays the father, and the cast also features Kaya Toft Loholt, Rigmor Rante and Neel Rønholt.
- 10/17/2019
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
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