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Post by Ace on Sept 2, 2012 22:50:51 GMT -5
ekstrabladet.dk/flash/filmogtv/film/article1818990.ece[Google Translation ] VENICE (Ekstra Bladet): It was a moving moment when the 59-year-old Pierce Brosnan late last night during standing ovations after the gala display of Susanne Bier's 'The Bald hairdresser' in the cinema Sala Grande Venezia in Venice went and cheek kissed Denmark's great actress Trine Dyrholm, while approx. 1500 enthusiastic spectators rhythmic clapping. All eyes were directed against the former James Bond actor who elegant and charming with its cheek-kiss said thanks to Trine Dyrholm for a good working relationship in the movie where the 59-year-old Brosnan and the 40-year-old Trine Dyrholm plunges into a passionate relationship in the romantic southern Italy on the Amalfi coast. Time stood almost still, as the two moved actors showed each other deep respect. And the picture you can clearly see that it is one of the moments that are in some way attached to the retina. The two actors' closest colleagues, filmmaker Susanne Bier, screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen and Lars von Trier's former producer Vibeke Windeløv have their eyes directed towards the magic moment. Sister from hell The Italian spectators took otherwise extremely well received Susanne Bier's film. They laughed at the right times, and was silent during the film's more sad periods. And the whole theater erupted in applause when Pierce Brosnan in the role of businessman Philip finally after 20 years put his deceased wife's sister (Paprika Steen) in place with a tirade of cursing and swearing. And there must therefore really much to silence 'sister from hell' who would love to see your pants on Pierce Brosnans character Philip, although he can not endure the sight of her. There is something to look forward to when the film will premiere in the Danish cinemas on Thursday.
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Post by Ace on Sept 3, 2012 2:09:51 GMT -5
Screen DailyDir: Susanne Bier. Denmark. 2012. 112mins In her first outing since her Oscar-winning In A Better World, Susanne Bier and her co-writer, Anders Thomas Jensen come up with a natural born winner, a romantic comedy that pulls out all the stops, uses all of the genre’s classic formulas.With a charmingly debonair Pierce Brosnan in one of the leads and Trine Dyrholm, one of the finest Danish actresses of her generation, opposite him it is certain to become one of the crowd pleasers of the season. The film screened out of competition at the Venice Film Festival. Ida (Dyrholm), a Danish hairdresser, is being told that her chemotherapy treatment has been completed, but it will take months before her cure is certain. Going home to her loving husband (Kim Bodnia), or so she believes, she finds him on the sofa having sex with the blonde floozy (Christiane Schaumburg-Muller) from the accounting department. Terribly hurt, she decides however to put on a brave face and attend her daughter’s wedding in Italy…though now the two spouses will go there on different flights. Meanwhile, Ida’s daughter Astrid (Molly Blixt Egelind) and her future husband, Patrick (Sebastien Jensen) are already at the villa in Sorrento, preparing for the ceremony, while back in Copenhagen once again Patrick’s father Philip (Brosnan), a fruit and vegetable tycoon who is the owner of the villa, has his birthday celebrated by his loving staff before embarking for the wedding as well. At the airport, Ida backs her car into Philip’s luxurious limousine, a bad way to get acquainted but surely anyone who has ever seen a romantic comedy can guess by now that all the mildly nasty remarks they exchange in the first minutes are only temporary, before the arrival of a happy ending. Just in case this cast might appear to be insufficient, there are few more supporting characters to deal with. There is Philip’s blowsy second wife [Ed: Sister-in-law] Benedikte (a high spirited Paprika Green), loud, noisy and a past master of the faux pas; her adolescent daughter from a previous marriage with a drinking problem; a couple of Italian caretakers introducing the inevitable gay element into the picture and quite a few more. Then there is the gorgeous villa, the lemon grove around it, the sunrises and the sunsets and lots. How and why all these people converge on screen doesn’t really matter too much, as the plot is engineered carefully enough never to appear nonsensical, sets and the scenery are glorious and the cinematography is glowing. Nothing really surprising or original is taking place here, but Dyrholm’s eyes shine every time she turns them on the camera and if there is one thing wrong with Brosnan, it is that he never appears to be as bad as his character is reputed to be. But no one will ever complain about that. By the end of it, there will be just one or two tears shed, just enough to justify the rules of the genre, and finally the great big hug that everyone expects from the very beginning. What audience will resist that?
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Post by rosafermu on Sept 3, 2012 2:15:31 GMT -5
Ace !!!!! I haven't words !!!! Magnificent report. Thanks so much.
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Post by rosafermu on Sept 3, 2012 2:38:16 GMT -5
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Post by rosafermu on Sept 3, 2012 4:28:40 GMT -5
Thanks for all the information you have given us. Prints can not be better.I am eager to see the film. Thank you very much. As always Ace, you're great
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Post by Ace on Sept 3, 2012 8:10:45 GMT -5
You're most welcome. I have some more photos, and articles to upload to my site later today - just trying to catch up.. cineuropa.org/2011/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&l=en&did=225396Love Is All You Need: A certain box office hitby Stefan Dobroiu Among sharks, tai chi and vampires, Susanne Bier's Love Is All You Need [trailer] brings some relief at the Venice Film Festival, where it is being screened out of competition. A certain box office hit in Europe and most probably soon to be remade in the United States, the romantic comedy stars Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm in a fairy tale full of sunsets, sunrises, doves, lemons and Italian enthusiasm. Screened immediately after Terrence Malick's already controversial To the Wonder, Love Is All You Need follows the misadventures of Ida (Dyrholm, excellent), who has just finished chemotherapy for breast cancer and is preparing for her daughter's wedding in Italy, when she discovers her husband (Kim Bodnia) is having an affair with his young and beautiful accountant. But her marriage is less important than her daughter's, so Ida flies to sunny Sorrento, where Astrid (Molly Blixt Egelind) is going to marry Patrick (Sebastian Jessen), although they've known each other for only three months. The clash of two very different families will entertain the audience, with Pierce Brosnan cast as Philip, Patrick's bitter and sarcastic father. At first, Philip is bewildered by Ida's wide-eyed frankness and naivity, but the two will soon start to become closer despite (or maybe because of) the problems in their families. Excellent performances, punchlines and the perfect chemistry between Brosnan and Dyrholm make the best of the fifth successful collaboration of Bier with screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen. Although sometimes quite predictable, Love Is All You Need proves to be the feel-good film of this edition of the Mostra and has every chance of entertaining audiences all over the world. The star of the film is without doubt the gorgeous Dyrholm, whose sincerity and lust for life make Ida one of the most charming characters recently seen on the big screen. Despite her illness and family problems, Ida doesn't forget to enjoy new experiences and those around her (and the audience too) will soon start to see things through her serene and impossibly blue eyes. Totally different is her nemesis Benedikte (a fierce performance from Paprika Steen), Philip's sister-in-law, who has her own plans about the future of the family. With the joyful rhythms of famous Italian songs, Love Is All You Need allows you to forgive the fact that the story goes in the only possible way and makes you remember the famous saying that it's not the destination, but the journey that counts. Bier's new journey is full of laughter, music and hope and the audience will have a lot of fun with the characters learning simultaneously that going forward is the most important thing in life. A symbol of hope is the omnipresent colour blue: a shirt or a chair, the sky or just Ida's eyes, every frame shot by DoP Morten Soborg has a blue spot in it. With a budget of €5.7m, Love Is All You Need was filmed on location in Italy and Denmark. It is produced by Zentropa Entertainments and internationally distributed by TrustNordisk.
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Post by eaz35173 on Sept 3, 2012 8:47:22 GMT -5
Red Carpet Arrival .....
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Post by rosafermu on Sept 3, 2012 9:25:08 GMT -5
Fantastic. Thanks for all
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Post by eaz35173 on Sept 3, 2012 14:42:37 GMT -5
More Red Carpet footage ....
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Post by Ace on Sept 3, 2012 15:42:14 GMT -5
Thanks for the links. Here's another (seemingly) longer version of the press conference I've updated my site with more photos, articles etc
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Post by rosafermu on Sept 4, 2012 7:53:19 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Sept 4, 2012 15:27:59 GMT -5
The Telegraph"]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/venice-film-festival/9520192/Venice-Film-Festival-2012-Love-Is-All-You-Need-review.html]The TelegraphBy Robbie Collin, Chief Film Critic 2:18PM BST 04 Sep 2012 Dir: Susanne Bier; Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Molly Blixt Egelind, Kim Bodnia, Paprika Steen, Christiane Schaumburg-Muller, Sebastian Jessen. 112 mins. Away from the torture, incest and sundry degradations of the most recent batch of competition films at Venice this year, Pierce Brosnan has given critics something to smile about. He stars in the innocuously-titled but gloriously enjoyable Love is All You Need, the latest film from the Danish director Susanne Bier, whose considerably more sober thriller In A Better World won the foreign language Oscar in 2011. Brosnan plays Philip, a widower and big noise on the Copenhagen fruit and vegetable wholesale scene who is hosting his son’s wedding at his villa in Sorrento. Also in attendance is the mother of the bride, Ida (Trine Dyrholm), a cancer survivor who has just completed a course of chemotherapy but is still awaiting the final all-clear. Ida’s tubby husband has absconded with the girl from accounts, so she, like Philip, is without a date. As they make the final preparations for their offspring’s nuptials, the flames of love start to catch, although Philip’s vulturous sister-in-law Bendikte (Paprika Steen) is also trying to kindle a romance of her own. Bier’s film is not an out-and-out romantic comedy so much as a romance with some very funny moments, although the wedding backdrop and holiday setting are both strong reminders of Mamma Mia. Brosnan looks as if he might be about to burst into song at any moment: imagine how delightful it is whenever he doesn’t. Just as the postcard-perfect setting has some chipped plaster and faded paint around its edges, so Bier’s photogenic characters all have their own sadnesses and vulnerabilities to bear. Anders Thomas Jensen’s script, which is just about equal parts English and Danish, is packed with humour that springs from recognisable human foibles, and Brosnan and Dyrholm have fizzingly good chemistry together. The younger cast members are given less to do, although the striking Danish actress Molly Blixt Egelind, who plays the bride-to-be, is definitely one to watch. Love is All You Need has been made for an audience rarely catered for by the film industry: intelligent adults who enjoy perceptive and good-hearted drama. The chatter on the Lido was that Bier’s film was another Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, but for me it’s far better, and comes from a more truthful, less cartoonish place. Think of it as a kind of wholemeal alternative: all of the pleasure, none of the guilt.
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Post by Ace on Sept 4, 2012 16:08:14 GMT -5
New York Times: Religion: Back With a Vengeance at Venice FestivalBy RODERICK CONWAY MORRIS Published: September 4, 2012 Faith in other human beings lies at the heart of Susanne Bier’s life-enhancing out-of-competition “Love Is All You Need.” This kind of faith, Ida, enchantingly played by Trine Dyrholm, has in abundance. In real life this manifestation of trust in the rest of the human race may seldom be rewarded, but this being a romantic comedy, after many travails, it is. Ida comes home from her latest medical consultation, after a grueling course of surgery and chemotherapy for breast cancer, to find her husband Leif (Kim Bodnia), having his way with a much younger work colleague on the family’s sofa. Ida and Lief were about to set off for their daughter’s wedding in Sorrento but her husband dumps her and Ida finds herself traveling alone. In a state of agitation, she backs her car at the airport into the swish vehicle of an irascible (but ultimately vulnerable) businessman, Philip (played with feeling by Pierce Brosnan). Philip turns out to be the father of the young man that Ida’s daughter is about to marry. In the tradition of old-style romantic comedy, Ida and Philip take an instant dislike to each other but are now forced to endure each other’s company in view of the fact that they will both be staying at Philip’s Sorrento villa, which has been empty since the death of his wife, and where the wedding festivities are to take place. To open the action of the film with Ida in consultation with her oncologist and a series of very funny gags sparked off by this painful situation took some daring. But Ms. Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen, her scriptwriter, have clearly enjoyed working within a conventional format, while wittily and poignantly subverting expectations, to create a real gem of bittersweet comedy.
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Sept 4, 2012 17:09:55 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Sept 4, 2012 18:26:30 GMT -5
Screen Daily: Susanne Bier on 'the beauty of romantic comedy'4 September, 2012 | By Geoffrey Macnab Cancer-themed movies tend to be grueling and very heavy affairs. Oscar winning Danish director Susanne Bier’s crowdpleaser Love Is All You Need is surely one of the only forays into the genre that can be labeled a romantic comedy. Speaking in Venice after the film’s world premiere, Bier said “everybody involved in this film has had a close relationship with cancer.” Her own mother (who was on the Lido to support the screening) has battled breast cancer twice. The writer Anders Thomas Jensen’s mother died from cancer and the star Pierce Brosnan had a wife who died from the disease. “My mother has this spirit. She is an extremely light and positive person…she would all the time figure out a way of seeing something positive in a situation that is very painful,” the director acknowledged of the inspiration she drew close to home. “There is nothing in the actual story that has to do with her story but her character traits are built upon.” Bier was determined to make a film that was “comedic” and “light” in spite of the film featuring a female protagonist (played by Trine Dyrlholm) who had lost a breast, is forced to wear a wig and is being cheated on by her husband. “That’s not just a terrible, painful thing. It’s also an extremely threatening lack of female identity. Somehow to gain James Bond was wonderful,” she said of the casting of Brosnan. “But more importantly, he was the right person for it.” Bier is already on post-production on a new movie, Serena, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. However, she refused to be drawn on future projects or to confirm whether or not she will be directing the Hanning Mankell scripted biopic of Swedish filmmaking legend Ingmar Bergman. Love Is All You Need, warmly received by audiences in Venice, is now sold out by TrustNordisk. “The beauty of romantic comedy is that we know how it is going to end. It is (about) how much we enjoy getting there,” Bier reflected. “I’ve mostly done more heavy dramatic things but it’s a movie that I am very proud and which I think will reach an audience and yet touch on very difficult subjects. I’ve read a number of scripts dealing with cancer and i haven’t wanted to do any because I don’t want to add to the stigma of something that is already so anxiety-ridden…nobody is not connected to someone who had cancer.”
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Post by Ace on Sept 4, 2012 21:47:00 GMT -5
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Post by rosafermu on Sept 5, 2012 9:18:10 GMT -5
Wowwww! I'm crazy for the photographs!!! Ace, many thanks.
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Post by Ace on Sept 5, 2012 15:41:42 GMT -5
Link and original Danish review here: www.information.dk/310124[GOOGLE TRANSLATED] Grief and lemonsSusanne Bier's 'The Bald hairdresser' is a great uplifting film about the ability to confront life and take the rough with the smooth. In an otherwise uneven tale enchants the understated romance between Trine Dyrholm and Pierce Brosnan Goosebumps. Trine Dyrholm and Pierce Brosnan plays the odd couple with such empathy, tenderness and charisma that you simply get goosebumps. By: Iben Albinus Sabroe 5th September 2012 | "I thought you were the man." The fainthearted replication comes from Leif, aka Kim Bodnia when his wife makes his entrance in the living room while he is ondulere a lady friend from behind on the leather couch. It's just 'Thilde from accounts, "apologizes Leif himself, which he sends Thilde of place in a taxi with the comment:" Remember to get a receipt! " The scene sets the action moving in the bald hairdresser and also appears in the film's trailer, and because it is one of the few amusing written dialogues in Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen's latest collaboration, it gives a distorted impression of what it is for a movie we diverted with. To The bald hairdresser is remarkably fun, is not in itself a problem, but it will be because it is marketed as a romantic comedy. Genre Conventions can be forklejnende commercial labels, but they also serve as a sign that leads the audience in the direction narrator want it to follow. Tenderness and charisma When the bald hairdresser anyway charms despite its uneven mix of character-borne comedy, patosbehængt family drama and cliché-filled holiday romance, it is thanks to the central love story. Of course, we know in advance that they need each other, the title cancer treated, but optimistic Ida from Herlev, and her antithesis, export director Philip, an Englishman in Copenhagen, which is a widower in self-imposed exile from the outside world. But in the respective main roles played Trine Dyrholm and Pierce Brosnan the odd couple with empathy, tenderness and charisma, so you forget both her Bodil winning performance and his James Bond and simply get goosebumps. The two meet at the airport on the way to her daughter's wedding with his son in Sorrento. Shocked by Leif's infidelity, banging Ida his yellow Fiat into the Philips company car, so he loses his temper and her wig. And after this first clash awaits them more unpleasant surprises in his family's lemon grove on the Amalfi Coast. Smoothing profits First dolls Leif up with Thilde (Christiane Schaumburg-Müller in the 1980s-like slutty look), and then seeing the young bride (Molly Blixt Egelind), her boyfriend (Sebastian Jessen) are more concerned with reuniting with his father than of their wedding. In this scenario comprises Ida and Philip progressively stronger sympathy for each other, but their budding love affair gets proper resistance. Especially because of Paprika Steen Benedikte, an upper-class bitch, describing Leif as a character from a Lucian Freud picture and encourage his teenage daughter to vomit to lose weight. Benedikte is the sister of Philips deceased wife and convinced that she must take her place. To Philip prefer Ida, you can not blame him in. After playing a number of masculine roles in films like Little Soldier brings Trine Dyrholm the mild Ida a touching feminine fragility and heat. She is a finely drawn character who gives his son Kenneth candy with the suitcase - 'little goodies for the evening "- as he should be sent as a soldier, to which he replies:" Mom, I must therefore not at camp. " Ida hiding behind the same smoothing profits when it comes to the corrosive instance breast cancer, she has just been through, and her development is about to confront his fear of dying. Her vulnerability awakens to turn something in Philip when he sees her bathing naked with her bare pate glistening in the southern Italian sun. The coupling of Trine Dyrholm with Pierce Brosnan is an example of Susanne Bier's strong sense of casting, and the Irish Hollywood star makes the film's grieving wooden man credible. The bald hairdresser is a mostly wonderful experience and despite some style wedding more refined than its somewhat inclined or title. One could, however, have liked the film very credible and truly life-affirming story about cancer and love had been allowed to be more pure. Lemon Grove and mean sea at Sorrento delivers the film's recurring blue and yellow colors and represents a little more than obvious but elegant balance between light and dark. Like the southern Italian idyll well is a plausible catalyst for the characters to take their love life to revision. But the empathetic drama that erupts between Sebastian Jessen Patrick and his emotionally absent father clash with the film's mild romantic mode. A tearful Patrick blames his father for his failure in a scene that is well played, but seems to belong to another genre, and certainly bristle strange in a film where Dean Martin singing That's Amore dominates the soundtrack. Here you sit with a feeling that methodacting meetings Mamma Mia! True to the Danish film tradition culminates conflicts at a party, here the night before the wedding, where all drink and dance to, among other Birthe Kjær, while the lemons lit by moonlight in front of the villa. "It's like it is all-inclusive," exclaims Christiane Schaumburg-Müller Thilde excited as she flashes blue painted eyelashes and suck on his cocktail, and how you can probably well summarize the bald hairdresser. The bald hairdresser. Directed by Susanne Bier. Screenplay: Anders Thomas Jensen. Danish (cinemas across the country)
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Post by eaz35173 on Sept 5, 2012 16:02:23 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Sept 5, 2012 16:42:38 GMT -5
Great find, thanks Finally a downloadable version with English subtitles on YouTube
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