Other winners include Transnistra, Lucky One, Season
May el-Toukhy’s Danish drama Queen Of Hearts has won Goteborg’s Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film.
The cash award of $110,000 (1m Sek) makes it the world’s most lucrative film prize. The prize is financed by Presenting partner Volvo Car Group alongsie Region Västra Götaland and the City Council of Gothenburg.
The jury included directors Adina Pintilie, Jyoti Mistry and Dominga Sotomayor, author Hanne-Vibeke Holst and Nick James, editor of Sight & Sound.
They said Queen Of Hearts “is a many-layered film that challenges our preconceptions about the moral ad sexual forces...
May el-Toukhy’s Danish drama Queen Of Hearts has won Goteborg’s Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film.
The cash award of $110,000 (1m Sek) makes it the world’s most lucrative film prize. The prize is financed by Presenting partner Volvo Car Group alongsie Region Västra Götaland and the City Council of Gothenburg.
The jury included directors Adina Pintilie, Jyoti Mistry and Dominga Sotomayor, author Hanne-Vibeke Holst and Nick James, editor of Sight & Sound.
They said Queen Of Hearts “is a many-layered film that challenges our preconceptions about the moral ad sexual forces...
- 2/3/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Another day, another strange little cross-cultural Taiwanese film; Håkon Liu's third film Miss Kicki is the story of an ageing Swedish single mother who tries to rediscover her joie de vivre by dragging her grudgingly accepting son halfway across the world for a wander through the backstreets of Taipei. Only this being the movies, things aren't entirely what they seem.
This is a story carried along by regret, chances missed and opportunities wasted. Alex Haridi's screenplay doesn't spend much time on backstory other than some offhand remarks in the second act, but even before then we can clearly see Kicki is struggling to cope with growing older alone.
We open on the tail end of a webcam chat with Kicki (Pernilla August, best known to mainstream audiences as Darth Vader's mother from the Star Wars prequels) exchanging sweet nothings with an online suitor, Mr Chang (a bizarre, if...
This is a story carried along by regret, chances missed and opportunities wasted. Alex Haridi's screenplay doesn't spend much time on backstory other than some offhand remarks in the second act, but even before then we can clearly see Kicki is struggling to cope with growing older alone.
We open on the tail end of a webcam chat with Kicki (Pernilla August, best known to mainstream audiences as Darth Vader's mother from the Star Wars prequels) exchanging sweet nothings with an online suitor, Mr Chang (a bizarre, if...
- 8/2/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Secrets can lead to bad things and in the case of this mother and son duo, they certainly don't lead to anything good.
Watching the trailer for Håkon Liu's feature film debut Miss Kicki, I was somewhat reminded of another film about people “lost” in a big city (looking at you Lost in Translation) but something about his, perhaps the story itself, speaks more to me more than Sofia Coppola's film ever did. It's the story of Kicki, an estranged mother, and Viktor, her son, who travel together to China in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. What Viktor doesn't realize, at least at first, is the Kicki's real reason for going to China is to meet her online boyfriend, a man who has no idea she's come to town to, essentially, meet him in “real life”.
Aside from the gorgeous look of the film, there's something special about this trailer.
Watching the trailer for Håkon Liu's feature film debut Miss Kicki, I was somewhat reminded of another film about people “lost” in a big city (looking at you Lost in Translation) but something about his, perhaps the story itself, speaks more to me more than Sofia Coppola's film ever did. It's the story of Kicki, an estranged mother, and Viktor, her son, who travel together to China in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. What Viktor doesn't realize, at least at first, is the Kicki's real reason for going to China is to meet her online boyfriend, a man who has no idea she's come to town to, essentially, meet him in “real life”.
Aside from the gorgeous look of the film, there's something special about this trailer.
- 1/27/2010
- QuietEarth.us
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