The film premiered at Sundance earlier this year and was released in North America by Breaking Glass Pictures on Nov. “Queen of Hearts” is Denmark’s official selection for the 2020 Oscar race in the Best International Film category. Franco lives in a rough part of Copenhagen. With Jesper Gredeli Jensen, Trine Dyrholm, Kirsten Olesen, Peter Schrder. It was a way to create a dialogue with the audience.” Springflod: Directed by Eddie Thomas Petersen. “I know what I think about her actions, but we didn’t want to make a film where we tell the audience what they should think, because then the conversation is disappearing, and the only way we can change these structures is if people have an experience where they have to negotiate with themselves. “We created space for an audience to interpret it,” el-Toukhy added. It’s just things that we can connect with.” “It’s complex, we have our background, we are reproducing a lot of things without knowing it. “I believe that she is not an evil person. Dyrholm described Anne as by far the most complex character she’s played, and the intrigue of the film lies in how el-Toukhy in a way makes the audience complicit with Anne’s actions. “Queen of Hearts” aims to correct that narrative as Anne’s persistence to maintain her secret slowly corrupts her, destroys her relationship with her family and even threatens the safety of Gustav. They researched similar real stories of teachers seducing young students or other family drama, and they found that the narrative of a woman engaging in an abusive relationship with a young man was often romanticized compared to a similar case of a stepfather taking advantage of a young stepdaughter. With “Queen of Hearts,” el-Toukhy wanted to examine the themes of family secrets and power structures. The explicitness of the sex scene also avoided romanticizing the relationship. You start a moral dialogue with yourself.” “And then once that happens, once they get each other, they have sex, it’s so brutal, and it’s so in your face that as an audience member, my ambition was, you start questioning if what you wanted was really what you wanted. “I really wanted the audience to hope that they would have sex, hope that they would get each other, even though it was wrong, even though it would create all sorts of problems,” el-Toukhy said. If it feels hard to watch and makes for a jarring twist in the film, that’s exactly the point. After first confronting him about his behavior, Gustav soon becomes a welcome part of the family, and Anne slowly warms to him and ultimately seduces him.īut the moment she finally gives in to her urges is seen in a shockingly explicit sex scene, complete with Dyrholm performing oral sex on this young man who is still underage. The Danish film stars Dyrholm as Anne, a wealthy and powerful lawyer for foster children, rape victims and more who takes in her husband’s teenage stepson named Gustav (Gustav Lindh) after he’s been kicked out of his school and his mother’s home in Sweden.
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