Rupert Grint (Harry Potter's Ron Weasley) turns in his wand for a pair of wings in this solid looking new WWII film Into the White. The movie is based on a true story about members of the British and German airforces who were shot down in Norway. Even though they're enemies they end up teaming up to help each other survive the harsh winter that is waiting for them. In the end they form a lifelong friendship.
The movie was directed by Norwegian filmmaker Petter Næss (Absolute Hangover, Gone with the Woman, Shameless), and also stars David Kross, Stig Henrik Hoff, Florian Lukas, and Lachlan Nieboer. Magnolia Pictures is releasing the film on VOD on March 7th and will then be released in theaters on April 12th, 2013.
It looks like it's worth checking out!
Source: MTV (http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2013/01/30/rupert-grint-into-the-white-trailer/)...
The movie was directed by Norwegian filmmaker Petter Næss (Absolute Hangover, Gone with the Woman, Shameless), and also stars David Kross, Stig Henrik Hoff, Florian Lukas, and Lachlan Nieboer. Magnolia Pictures is releasing the film on VOD on March 7th and will then be released in theaters on April 12th, 2013.
It looks like it's worth checking out!
Source: MTV (http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2013/01/30/rupert-grint-into-the-white-trailer/)...
- 1/31/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
With the long-running Harry Potter franchise in their collective rearview mirror, the stars of that series are finally able to move on to other projects. Former Ron Weasley Rupert Grint has moved on quicker than most, popping up in a role opposite Shia Labeouf in The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman. Now we have the trailer for his newest movie Into the White, a true story about members of the British and German forces in WWII who are both shot down and must band together to survive. It looks like there could be some great tense moments ala Inglourious Basterds here, but we'll have to wait and see. Watch below! Here's the first trailer for Into the White, originally from MTV: Into the White is directed by Norwegian filmmaker Petter Næss (Absolute Hangover, Gone with the Woman, Shameless), and stars David Kross, Stig Henrik Hoff, Florian Lukas, Rupert Grint, and...
- 1/30/2013
- by Ben Pearson
- firstshowing.net
Drinking and sledding may be a very bad idea in real life - growing up north of Toronto you could count on a good handful of people crashing through thin ice or getting caught up in barbed wire every winter - but if Rune Denstad Langlo’s Nord - or North in English - is any indication it can make for some compelling film. A drunken road movie in which there is scarcely any actual road, the film stars Anders Baasmo Christiansen as a former athlete recovering from a mental breakdown while riding his snowmobile across the country to meet the daughter he never knew he had with only a canister of moonshine for company.
North is a road movie comedy set in romantic natural surroundings. It is the story of the athlete Jomar who has isolated himself in a sad lonely existence after having a mental crises. On a snow scooter,...
North is a road movie comedy set in romantic natural surroundings. It is the story of the athlete Jomar who has isolated himself in a sad lonely existence after having a mental crises. On a snow scooter,...
- 12/15/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
Hollywood Film Festival
Scandinavian filmmakers are known for making somber, heavy opuses drenched in angst and metaphysical meditations, like the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. But the truth is there has always been another strain of Scandinavian films, whimsical comedies like Kitchen Stories and the Oscar-nominated Elling, directed by Norwegian filmmaker Petter Naess.
Naess' new film Gone With the Woman is in much the same sly comic mode. It has enough appealing touches to score on the festival circuit, though it's a little too mild and precious to capture any significant audience in American theaters. The film is Norway's official submission for this year's foreign-language Oscar.
Woman begins with a gob of narration by the sad-sack hero (Trond Fausa Aurvag) describing the strange onset of his romance with Marianne Marian Saastad Ottesen), who moves in with him despite his indifference. After a series of misadventures, the hero (who is never named) announces, "I decided to fall head over heels in love with her. I would start in the morning."
The course of true love never did run smooth, and after the hero meets an enticing new flame during a whirlwind trip to Paris, and after Marianne takes up with a lover of her own, matters finally wind their tortuous way to the right romantic conclusion.
The story progresses in fits and starts, too often propelled by verbose narration. But Woman benefits from an appealing cast. Aurvag has an off-center charm; he makes us feel for the character's befuddlement. Ottesen is alternately endearing and maddening, and Louise Monot is lovely as the hero's Parisian amour. Peter Stormare provides some of the best moments as the hero's no-nonsense swimming buddy and confidant; the swimming pool and sauna scenes are among the movie's brightest comic interludes.
Naess has unmistakable visual talent, and there are striking images, alternately ironic and idyllic, throughout the movie. There's even a deft bit of animation marking one of the key transitional sequences. Technical credits are strong, and the use of music is inventive. But the whimsy, which might appeal to lovers of films like the cloying Amelie, does get a bit thick. Despite its likable cast and inventive visuals, the film desperately needs a few bold laughs in addition to its mild chuckles.
GONE WITH THE WOMAN
Monster Film
SF Norge, Guttorm Pettersom and Norsk Filmstudio
Credits:
Director: Petter Naess
Screenwriters: Johan Bogaeus, Petter Naess
Based on the novel by: Erlend Lee
Producer: Olav Oen
Director of photography: Marius Johansen Hansen
Art director: Bettina Schroeteler
Music: Aslak Hartberg
Costume designer: Karen Fabritius Gram
Editor: Inge-Lise Langfeldt
Cast:
Hero: Trond Fausa Aurvag
Marianne: Marian Saastad Ottesen
Glenn: Peter Stormare
Mirlinda: Louise Monot
Lollik: Trude Bjercke Strom
Tor: Henrik Mestad
Nidar-Bergene: Anna Gutto
Oberst: Sten Ljunggren
Running time -- 92 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Scandinavian filmmakers are known for making somber, heavy opuses drenched in angst and metaphysical meditations, like the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. But the truth is there has always been another strain of Scandinavian films, whimsical comedies like Kitchen Stories and the Oscar-nominated Elling, directed by Norwegian filmmaker Petter Naess.
Naess' new film Gone With the Woman is in much the same sly comic mode. It has enough appealing touches to score on the festival circuit, though it's a little too mild and precious to capture any significant audience in American theaters. The film is Norway's official submission for this year's foreign-language Oscar.
Woman begins with a gob of narration by the sad-sack hero (Trond Fausa Aurvag) describing the strange onset of his romance with Marianne Marian Saastad Ottesen), who moves in with him despite his indifference. After a series of misadventures, the hero (who is never named) announces, "I decided to fall head over heels in love with her. I would start in the morning."
The course of true love never did run smooth, and after the hero meets an enticing new flame during a whirlwind trip to Paris, and after Marianne takes up with a lover of her own, matters finally wind their tortuous way to the right romantic conclusion.
The story progresses in fits and starts, too often propelled by verbose narration. But Woman benefits from an appealing cast. Aurvag has an off-center charm; he makes us feel for the character's befuddlement. Ottesen is alternately endearing and maddening, and Louise Monot is lovely as the hero's Parisian amour. Peter Stormare provides some of the best moments as the hero's no-nonsense swimming buddy and confidant; the swimming pool and sauna scenes are among the movie's brightest comic interludes.
Naess has unmistakable visual talent, and there are striking images, alternately ironic and idyllic, throughout the movie. There's even a deft bit of animation marking one of the key transitional sequences. Technical credits are strong, and the use of music is inventive. But the whimsy, which might appeal to lovers of films like the cloying Amelie, does get a bit thick. Despite its likable cast and inventive visuals, the film desperately needs a few bold laughs in addition to its mild chuckles.
GONE WITH THE WOMAN
Monster Film
SF Norge, Guttorm Pettersom and Norsk Filmstudio
Credits:
Director: Petter Naess
Screenwriters: Johan Bogaeus, Petter Naess
Based on the novel by: Erlend Lee
Producer: Olav Oen
Director of photography: Marius Johansen Hansen
Art director: Bettina Schroeteler
Music: Aslak Hartberg
Costume designer: Karen Fabritius Gram
Editor: Inge-Lise Langfeldt
Cast:
Hero: Trond Fausa Aurvag
Marianne: Marian Saastad Ottesen
Glenn: Peter Stormare
Mirlinda: Louise Monot
Lollik: Trude Bjercke Strom
Tor: Henrik Mestad
Nidar-Bergene: Anna Gutto
Oberst: Sten Ljunggren
Running time -- 92 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 12/12/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The U.S. premiere of Petter Naess's Gone With the Woman will kick off the 11th Annual Hollywood Film Festival. Uwe Boll's U.S. premiere of the uncensored cut of Postal will conclude the festival with its U.S. premiere, which runs Oct. 17-22. The festival on Tuesday also announced the nominees for its Hollywood World Awards and the Hollywood Movie of the Year award with nominees in that category including Zack Snyder's 300, The Bourne Ultimatum directed by Paul Greengrass and Hairspray directed by Adam Shankman.
- 10/10/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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