Stockholm Film Festival

Shown and praised in the Un Certain Regard section atthis year's Cannes Film Festival, Stormy Weather is a French-Icelandic collaboration that in many ways brings together the French and Scandinavian schools of filmmaking,
A woman (Didda Jónsdottír), whose identity is unknown, is held in custody at a psychiatric department of a French
hospital. She doesn't speak, but only lashes out in sudden
bursts of manic depression, The young psychatrist Cora (Élodie Bouchez), puts a lot of interest in her intriguing patient, and a deep relationship develops between the two, Suddenly, the woman's identity is discovered and she, Loa, is sent back to her family on a small island off the coast
of Iceland, Cora sees no other option than to immediately follow her, but her idea to bring Loa back to France is not well received, Much like the volcano that constitutes an ever-present threat to the entire island, Loa's mood swings from complete silence to violent eruptions,
In bleak, yet stunningly beautiful images, Solveig Anspach tells a story about how understanding does not always equal comprehending, With a certain homage paid to Ingmar Bergman's Persona (19661 as well as Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996), Stormy Weather comes out as a truly unique experience,
MARTIN WEGELAND

Medverkande

Elodie Bouchez,Didda Jonsdottir,Christophe Sermet

Producent

Patrick Sobelman

Manus

Solveigh Anspach

Foto

Benoit Dervaux

Musik

Alexandre Desplat

Talat språk

French

 

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