Another View 2017 / Stockholm My Love / Sweden, United Kingdom 2016
This multilayered metropolitan symphony is, at once, a music film, a love letter to the city, an intimate study of grief, and an urbanistic essay. Architect Alva (Neneh Cherry) doesn’t make it to her class, instead choosing to stroll through the city while her contemplation of her surroundings mingles with her own memories of the most traumatic experience of her life.
A unique figure of contemporary cinema, Cousins has now shifted techniques applied in his last feature-length work I Am Belfast (2015) in the direction of feature film. This multilayered variation on the metropolitan symphony is at once a music film, a love letter to the city, an intimate study of guilt, and an urbanistic essay. A Swedish architect never makes it to her class; instead she strolls through the city, while her reflections on the topic of her lecture mingle with memories of the most traumatic experience of her life. For her, the city is a place where the individual confronts order. At first Stockholm appears as a constricting form, yet it then manifests itself as a space where people seek happiness and revel in their little joys. Singer Neneh Cherry performs her acting debut here, and Stockholm is captured through the lens of Christopher Doyle (I Am Belfast, The Limits of Control, Hero, Ondine, most recently Endless Poetry). Apart from songs by Neneh Cherry, the soundtrack also features music by Benny Andersson (ABBA) and by 19th century Swedish composer Franz Berwald.
Vít Kořínek
88 min / Color, DCP
Director Mark Cousins
/ Screenplay Mark Cousins, Anita Oxburgh
/ Dir. of Photography Christopher Doyle, Mark Cousins
/ Music Neneh Cherry, Ben Page, Cameron McVey, Mark Cousins
/ Editor Timo Langer
/ Producer Anita Oxburgh, Mary Bell, Adam Dawtrey
/ Production Migma Film AB
/ Coproduction Bofa Productions Limited
/ Cast Neneh Cherry
/ Contact BOFA Productions
Mark Cousins (b. 1965, Belfast) is a Northern Irish filmmaker, writer, curator, film critic, and traveller living in Scotland. His feature debut The First Movie (2009) won the Prix Italia. On the world stage, Cousins is best known for The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011), which was presented at numerous festivals, including KVIFF 2012. He has written works on cinema: The Story of Film (2004), Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary (with Kevin Macdonald, 2006), and Widescreen: Watching Real People Elsewhere (2008). He and Tilda Swinton head up the 8½ Foundation, whose mission is to broaden kids’ cinematic horizons with movies from around the world. Other films by Cousins screened at KVIFF: What Is This Film Called Love? (2012), A Story of Children and Film (2013), Life May Be (co-dir. Mania Akbari, 2013), and I Am Belfast (2015), which competed in the Documentary Film Competition.
BOFA Productions
20 Westerton Drive, FK9 4QL, Stirling
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 773 995 4106
E-mail: [email protected]
First-hand brews throughout the year.
Be among the first to learn about upcoming events and other news. We only send the newsletter when we have something to say.
