Kunsten at græde i kor selected for SÃO PAULO

Kunsten at græde i kor has been selected for

NEW DIRECTORS COMPETITION

in

31st MOSTRA - SÃO PAULO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

October 19 - November 1st

31st MOSTRA - SÃO PAULO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The 31st SÃO PAULO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL will be held October 19 through November 1st, 2007. MOSTRA is an ABMIC – Associação Brasileira Mostra Internacional de Cinema non-profit cultural event. The State and the Municipality of São Paulo have established October as the official month for MOSTRA.

The 31st MOSTRA – SÃO PAULO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL will include three sections:

· NEW DIRECTORS COMPETITION

· INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

· SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

NEW DIRECTORS COMPETITION

– A competitive section for filmmakers with a first and second feature. MOSTRA has devised an innovating, democratic formula for competition. All of the films that comply with the regulations below and that are applying to NEW DIRECTORS COMPETITION must have copies available to be shown to the audience at least twice during the first week of the festival. The VOTE FROM THE PUBLIC will then define, from among all of the films in competition, a minimum of ten films to be shown during the second week of the festival to an International Jury consisting of persons from various countries of acknowledged importance to the cinematographic industry. The winners of NEW DIRECTORS COMPETITION will be awarded the BANDEIRA PAULISTA award, a trophy designed by artist TOMIE OHTAKE.

"The Art of Crying" in San Sebastian - again!

San Sebastian has 'Cold Fever'
Festival tauts 'New Nordic' section
By EMILIO MAYORGA
(Article from Variety)

BARCELONA -- Peter Schonau Fog's "The Art of Crying", Pernille Fischer Christensen's "A Soap" and Aleksi Salmenpera's "A Man's Job" are all set to unspool as part of the San Sebastian Festival's "Cold Fever - The New Nordic Cinema" section, announced today


Other films in the sidebar include: Tomas Alfredson's "Four Shades of Brown," Bard Breien's "The Art of Negative Thinking," "Parents" and "Children," both helmed by Ragnar Bragason, and Jens Lien's "The Bothersome Man"


"Cold Fever" aims to explore new trends in contemporary post-Dogma filmmaking Showcase
includes 38 movies from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, and will be accompanied by a book, written by Danish film critic and writer Christian Monggaard.


"Cold fever" is one of the three sidebars announced by the festival The other two are a tribute to Philippe Garrel and a Henry King retro.


San Sebastian fest runs Sept. 20-29.

Svend nomineringer

Svend er den eneste store filmpris i Danmark, der helt og aldeles bestemmes af publikum. For det er først og fremmest årets mest populære film, der er på stemmesedlen, og hvem der vinder, ja, det afgør bl.a. bt.dk's og B.T.s læsere.

Svend-prisen er etableret i samarbejde mellem danske filmproducenter, danske filmudlejere og Svendborg Kommune ­deraf navnet Svend.

Se nomineringer og stem her.

Reykjavik International Film Festival

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at græde i kor has been selected for:

Reykjavik International Film Festival

Main Competition

(Sep 27-Oct 7 2007)

Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF) was founded in 2004 by a group of film enthusiasts and professionals with the goal of creating an annual international film festival in Reykjavik. The aim is to establish a major film event to enrich and enliven the local film culture, but moreover, to become an international attraction. We believe that by building up an innovative film festival in Reykjavik, our foreign guests will have a unique opportunity to participate in an exciting cultural event, as well as visiting a country renowned for its natural wonders and dynamic culture.

Special mention in Motovun, Croatia

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at græde i kor recieves a

Special Mention

in Motovun Film Festival, Croatia.

Read about it in croatian, and in english.

Warsaw International Film Festival

The Art of Crying has been selected to the Warsaw International Film Festival Oct 12 - 21 2007.

The Norwegian International Film Festival

The Art of Crying - Kunsten å gråte i kor has been selected to the main programme of The Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund 17. – 24. august 2007.

And will have a cinematic release in Norway 21. of september. SF Norge.

'KUNSTEN AT GRÆDE I KOR ' VINDER BEDSTE UDENLANDSKE FILM!

Peter Schønau Fogs debutfilm 'Kunsten at græde i kor' har netop vundet i kategorien 'Bedste udenlandske film' samt Runner-Up priserne for 'Bedste film' og 'Bedste børneskuespiller' (til Jannik Lorenzen), og er nu oppe på 16 priser i alt.

Der er tale om de såkaldte PROSKARS som uddeles af ifbm. Seattle Film Festival, hvor 'Kunsten' vandt tre priser ud af sine i alt fire nomineringer (Jannik Lorenzen var også nomineret for sin rolle som ALLAN i kategorien BEST DEBUT ACTOR).


Steve Clare, editor for PROST AMERIKA!, skriver i sin annoncering bla.:'Art of Crying won the PROSKAR for Best Foreign Language Film. Just as impressively, it won the Runner Up for Best Film altogether, which is an incredible achievement for a film in Danish with subtitles.'

Og fortsætter: 'Let's not forget the very talented Jannik who carried off the Runner Up for Best Child Actor. The first of many awards for him I think.'


'Kunstens' to børneskuespillere, Jannik Lorenzen der spiller Allan og Julie Kolbech der spiller storesøster Sanne, er begge blevet castet i lokalområdet, hvor 'Kunsten' er blevet optaget. Forud for optagelserne har de modtaget undervisning og coaching af skuespiller Sarah Boberg, og opbyggede et 3.persons forhold til deres roller. Dette har givet en professionalisme og troværdighed i deres arbejde, som mange har beundret.

PROSKARS nomineringer & priser:
1) The Art of Crying for BEST FILM - Runner Up
2) The Art of Crying for BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM - Vinder
3) Jannik Lorenzen for his role as ALLAN for BEST CHILD ACTOR - Runner Up
4) Jannik Lorenzen for his role as ALLAN for BEST DEBUT ACTOR - Nomineret

Kunsten at græde i kor wins award in Brussels

The Brussels European Film Festival

Prime Award for Best Film
5.000 € (distribution value) – chosen by the audience to

« The Art of Crying »

by Peter Schonau Fog

(Denmark - 2006)

The award was hand over by Philippe De Beer, Loyalty Program Manager de Prime

The Art of Crying Nominated for FOUR Awards at Seattle

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at græde i kor has been nominated for a FOUR PROSKARS in the following categories of at the Seattle International Film Festival:

1) The Art of Crying for BEST FILM

2) The Art of Crying for BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

3) Jannik Lorenzen for his role as ALLAN for BEST CHILD ACTOR

4) Jannik Lorenzen for his role as ALLAN for BEST DEBUT ACTOR

To see the PROSKARS coverage of SIFF in full, please go to http://www.prostamerika.com/SIFF.html for coverage in German and http://www.prostamerika.com/SIFF_English.html to see the same page in English. Once all the Nominees have been notified the final decisions will be made. They will be announced on the http://www.prostamerika.com/SIFF.html site first and then the Winners notified and congratulated.

The Committee is meeting on July 10th.

'Kunsten at græde i kor' in Lecce by FIPRESCI-member

"The Art of Crying":
The World Seen Through the Eyes of its Fearless Future
By Ioanna Papageorgiou

You go to the big, famous festivals around the world, full of expectations and hopes, ready to discover dozens and dozens of films. And after 10 or 11 days of completely disconnecting yourself from your everyday life and submerging it in the universe of the moving pictures, you return to the real world neither disappointed, nor satisfied. Instead you come away with a lukewarm feeling, as you realize that you can carry with you only a handful of really good, fulfilling films – especially if, in the end, you could only find the time or were professionally obligated to watch almost nothing else than the features screened in the official competition program (which, unfortunately, is usually the case).

Then, you go to the "tiny", relatively unknown Festival del Cinema Europeo (now in its eighth year), in the beautiful town of Lecce and its 100,000 people, in southern Italy, having to acquaint yourself with just about 30-50 films. And… you never want to leave. Not only because of the famously unorganized, but at the same time sincerely polite and openhearted friendly Italian hospitality, or the pleasantly nonchalant rhythm of the festival, or even the exciting, sightseeing walks in the historical center of the city. But also because, when it is time to depart and state your impressions of the festival and the 10 films in its competition program, you find it rather difficult to single-out one as your favorite.

Although most of them had already left their mark at earlier, bigger festivals around the world (Cristian Wagner's Warchild at Montreal, Teresa Villaverde's Trance (Transe) at Cannes' Directors Fortnight, Marco Simon Puccioni's Shelter (Riparo) at Berlin's Panorama, Joachim Trier's Reprise at Toronto), it is here, among a few others, carefully selected films, without the pressure of official, glamorous screenings, the international Press, or various public-relations events, that they can really shine. And, perhaps, none more than The Art of Crying (Kunsten at graede I kor) – Danish director's Peter Schonau Fog's debut feature film. Thought-provokingly tragic like an ancient Greek tragedy, intriguingly comic like a post-modern American soap-opera (TV's Nip/Tuck, Desperate Housewives and Six Feet Under come to mind), it tells not the story of a currently burning social issue, but of an ordinarily dysfunctional family: the birth place of all the world's future, rarely model or socially conscientious citizens. A family living in a small, Danish town in the early 70s, which shows absolutely no traces of its… age: on the contrary, each of its members behaves in such a way, creating love and hate, power and subordination, relations with all the others, that if not notified for the above mentioned place and time you would most definitely think that this was, in many ways, so similar to your own family lives somewhere in the western part of the planet right now!

Fog adopts the innocent and thus painfully reveling gaze of the youngest, 11 year old, son Allan – a wide-eyed boy who for a long time you don't know if you want to reprimand and slap or hold tightly protectively in your arms, cradling it and kissing it, as he attends to every outrageous need of his cunningly abusive father in a desperate attempt to keep the family together.

With a silence heavily pregnant with emotion, an ironic, fearlessly truthful humor, a purely cinematic, eloquent use of the editing, and a series of static, unaffected frames, Fog narrates his story by what is seen or not seen (but nevertheless, unmistakably lurks) in his pictures, the unavoidably sincere expressions and gestures of his brilliant actors (especially the enlightened Jannik Lorenzen in the role of Allan), a brave open end, as well as reserving no judgment whatsoever for his heroes and heroines. Thus he provokes each member of the audience to wonder about and draw its own, personal conclusions regarding the ethical and unwritten family laws we still grow up with and, in particular, human nature in general.

Ioanna Papageorgiou

© FIPRESCI 2007

Kunsten at græde i kor has been selected for Motovun Film Festival

Kunsten at græde i kor/The Art of Crying has been selected for:

The 9th Motovun Film Festival

23. - 27. july

Check out Motovun Film Festival on Youtube!

Motovun:
Motovun Film Festival was founded in 1999 and has since been located in Motovun, a small but beautiful picturesque town in Istria - the Mediterranean region of Croatia.

The setting for the Festival, with all its additional programs and workshops, are the streets and squares of a beautiful fortified medieval town, which dominates the green valley of the river Mirna, famous for its truffels and exquisite Istrian wine. Because of its cheerful and relaxed atmosphere(with no red carpets) the festival have earned the attribute of "Cinema Paradiso".

The festival program has included the most successful independent films, with the intention to exhibit the richness of the global film industry, screening films from all corners of the world. The festival attracts a huge audience - tens of thousands of people travel to Motovun each year to be a part of it.

Festroia: Two prizes to Kunsten at græde i kor

Kunsten at græde i kor/The Art of Crying has recieved the CICAE PRIZE and FIRST WORK’S SPECIAL MENTION at Festroia International Film Festival.

The festival paper in Portuguese here.

CICAE PRIZE:
About Cicae here, and about the prize here. (Hit the the language icons on the pages for changing the language to english). Previous winners here.

Description of the prize:

Bringing festival films to arthouse cinema audiences.

In most countries, the film market is dominated by super-productions that tend to format audiences' tastes. The vast majority of innovative films, first works, films from "small countries" or faraway continents, do not easily get distributed. Even within Europe itself, films rarely get out beyond their national borders. Film distributors are vulnerable to the hazards of the market, and the situation worsens every year. Festivals are thus the only venue for a large number of films. The aim of Cinediversity is to act as a bridge between partners, festivals, and movie enthusiasts that regularly visit arthouse theatres belonging to the CICAE network.

Three stages:

Selection: at every year's cinema festivals, 10 to 15 films are selected by a jury made up of arthouse cinema programmers.

Commitment: the CICAE undertakes to support the release of these films in countries where an organized network exists, as an incentive for distribution companies to market them.

Promotion: working on a country-by-country basis, local CICAE networks help distributors successfully market award-winning films, through recommendations for all cinemas, trade-only screenings, networking of film copies, and the delivery of information to audiences. In some cases, the CICAE can provide support for subtitling through its partner TITRA FILM PARIS.

Who are the members of the jury and on what basis are films selected?
The CICAE juries are appointed by the Executive Board based on proposals by CICAE national networks and members. CICAE juries comprise three or four members from different countries, who are selected for their experience in programming for arthouse theatres. In 2004, over 200 films in 10 festivals were seen by 32 jury members representing nine different countries.The CICAE juries have a very precise brief: in order to win, a film must possess great artistic or educational qualities, and speak to audiences broader than those of highly specialized cinemas in capital cities. Juries seek to encourage young directors, as well as productions coming out of less-recognized countries.

Variety: Balkan, Scandi folk party in Portugal
'Border Post' wins film, director
By EMMA GRAY MUNTHE, LEO BARRACLOUGH

Folk from the Balkans and Scandinavia walked away with the bulk of the prizes at the Festroia Intl. Film Fest, held in Setubal, Portugal.

"Border Post," a co-production between Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosnia and the U.K., took the Gold Dolphin and Fipresci prize for film and the directing prize for its Croat helmer Rajko Grlic.

Another Croat, Ognjen Svilicic, took the scripting kudo for "Armin," a Croatia-Bosnia-Germany co-production.

Serbia's "The Optimists," helmed by Goran Paskaljevic, took the audience award.
Susanne Bier's Danish pic "After the Wedding" won the special jury prize and Swedish thesp Rolf Lassgard took best actor for his part in the film.

Swedish thesps Helena Bergstrom and Maria Lundqvist shared the prize for actress for their roles in Colin Nutley's "Heartbreak Hotel."

Denmark's "The Art of Crying," directed by first-timer Peter Schonau Fog, got a special mention as well as the prize from CICAE, the international federation of arthouse cinemas.

The only major awards to go to pics from outside the Balkans or Scandinavia were the Cuban-Spanish movie "Madrigal," which took cinematography kudo for Cuban Raul Perez Ureta, and Germany's "Princess," which won the first film prize for Birgit Grosskopf.
Fest ran June 1-10.

Kunsten at Græde i Kor - Seattle Review

The Art of Crying - Review

Screened at the 33rd Annual Seattle International Film Festival

THE ART OF CRYING, which is making it’s North American debut at SIFF, shows us how one can learn very hard lessons very young, without ever leaving home. This well made, difficult film starts with its dark themes clearly visible, but skewed by the perspective of young Allan, an 11 year old trying to figure out how to fix the things that aren’t working in his home life. Allan’s sincere efforts, his misunderstandings, and his wobbly but developing value hierarchy offer quite a few moments of grim comedy in the first half of what develops into something of a tour de force of dysfunctional consequences. He’s a tough, independent kid whose frail looks and owl-like glasses belie a steely gaze. The power of his determination alone is adequate to quell the violent nature of even a put-upon local grocer. His loyalty and strength make him a useful ally in an ongoing familial battle of ‘who’s more worthy of sympathy.’

The filmmakers do very smart things with the tone of the movie. We follow willingly through the first measures, trusting our instinct that Allan’s voice wouldn’t lead us into anything too terrible. He’s a child though; he’s not seeing some important things. It’s an impressive feat of the movie to make his perspective so persuasive that we don’t really pay attention to them either. We continue to laugh along, well after things happen that demonstrate the inadequacy of his vision. The filmmakers manage this tension between what we know is happening (and how we would react to it outside the theater) and what Allan tells us is happening extremely well.

Other movies in recent memory have employed a child’s perspective to move the audience willingly into territory they certainly wouldn’t travel on their own. It has to be done without the audience feeling that their expectations have been betrayed. We’re not exactly surprised when things get difficult. We understand how the things we’ve accepted previously have landed us here, with Allan. It’s one of the gifts of the film that we are able to see Allan begin to understand it as well. In fact, among the numerous fine perfomances, Jannik Lorenzen’s turn as Allan is particularly outstanding. It’s a performance that is as courageous as the character he plays.

There are lots of individual lives at stake in this film, and a few souls. (In the sense of ‘what kind of person am I’ rather than ‘will I live forever after death.’) As the film progresses, we learn that some souls have already been lost. The question of whether loved ones can avoid a similar fate while attempting to help is central to the film. Tragically, the question is asked by a child—as in life it probably too often is.

There’s a lot to like in this film, but don’t believe any description that makes it sound anything less than heartbreaking—not in the Hollywood, tear jerker sense, but in the sense of ‘breaking your heart.’ It’s as painful as it sounds. The audience will rise slowly when the credits start to roll, and then leave the theater quietly. It’s so well made though—from script, to direction, to cinematography, sound, and the excellent performances throughout. For those able to stomach the kind of journey into the dark places of human experience that good cinema is able to deliver, this movie is well worth the time and the price of admission.

--Steve Toutonghi

Director Peter Schønau Fog on "The Art of Crying"

Interview by Jon Robbins at New Directors/New Films in New York

11-year-old Allan’s life is dictated by his father’s tears. Mom oversleeps, so the only one who can truly comfort dad is Allan’s sister Sanne. Director Peter Schønau Fog ably strafes the horror/humor divide, and with irony and ample respect brings to the forefront the tabooed horror of child abuse. The Art of Crying is a beautifully shot film by a very capable new filmmaker.

Read Jon's interview here!

Kunsten at græde i kor review by FIPRESCI jury member

The Art of Crying Never Runs Dry
By Miguel Somsen
(FIPRESCI jury member in Istanbul 2007)

The parents are having a discussion in the background, preventing the two kids, a boy and a girl, from going to sleep. Then, abruptly, the mother rushes back to the room, leaving the dad alone in the ground floor, whining loudly: "OK, I cannot take it anymore! If you want me to kill myself, I will kill myself!" But there's always a bigger reason for the father not to commit suicide every night: he is too weak to really go for it. So, instead, he just lies in the couch and cries. He cries all night long. Unless someone — please — will do something to help. Eventually, someone will.

This is just the opening scene for The Art of Crying (Kunsten at Graede I Kor), a stunning debut by 35-year old Danish director Peter Schonau Fog. The rest of the movie, however, will go further and deeper into the soul and guts of a straight-forward small town family from Denmark. But not so "straight forward" as it may seem: the movie was shot in such a remote part of Denmark that the copies shown in Copenhagen will require Danish subtitles.

Later on, as the older brother returns home for the weekend, the reality bites. Although he may be studying architecture in the big city, he knows nothing about keeping this small "foundation" standing. In his abscence, his younger siblings alone will have to create (or recreate) their own structure for the time being — on a daily and nightly basis. In fact, they have been doing it for ages: every time the dad starts crying, the kid calls on her sister to go downstairs and comfort the father, so that "he won't kill himself again". When the girl refuses, the boy will have to comply. Eventually, as time fades and the movie shines, we will learn the true meaning of "comforting" to this family.

Like the child-protagonist Allan (the actor Jannik Lorenzen, fragile and outstanding), in the beginning of The Art of Crying we are also the innocent. Yes, we haven't seen nothing yet. But rapidly, as adults, we will draw our own conclusions; or recoil easily into our safety cocoons, with our eyes and minds closed. The kid, on the other hand, is alone and helpless, too busy trying to save this family to know any other way. Innocence, in this case, means a total inability to judge the characters and their actions, to separate the wrong-doing from the moral virtue, the alcohol from the syrup. This ostensive lack of responsibility enables the movie to shift gracefully from tragedy to comedy, from the hardcore to the gentle. In a lighthearted sequence, the director introduces us to some minor characters (the grocer, the aunt, the boyfriend) whose development only slightly serves the purpose of the main storyline. I recall a brilliant scene where the kid informs the local clergyman that his sobbing father will say a eulogy for the funeral of the grocer's son (which happens to be his rival too). The speech is a huge success, provoking the tears of anyone present in the ceremony. Finally, the kid finds a purpose to his father's sadness. But the result is a comic relief, a juxtaposition of black-humoured wit and sorrow, of misery and joy. The sequence defines the tone of The Art of Crying, the icing on the cake, a tragedy laughing out loud, with self-pity never turning into self-indulgence. This is what I call a movie to cry for.

Miguel Somsen© FIPRESCI 2007

Miguel Somsen has been a Portuguese film critic for over 15 years, having published material in magazines such as "Vogue", "Premiere", "Elle", and in national papers such as "O Independente". He is currently a full-time employee for the most successful Portuguese TV channel TVI but mostly enjoys writing the columns he delivers weekly for the daily paper "Metro". He has been a member of FIPRESCI for three years.

And here is a bit on the international Competition in Istanbul by another Fipresci jury member, Katharina Dockhorn: Here!

Special mention in Trondheim

Peter Schønau Fog and 'Kunsten at græde i kor' receives a

Special Mention

at the Kosmorama Trondheim International Filmfestival

The Jury's motivation(in norwegian):

Dette er en film av en modig og begavet regissør som har behandlet et tema som både er ubehagelig og sjelsettende. Dette klarer han blant annet ved å integrere et humoristisk blikk på den på alle måter tragiske fortellingen - en fortelling som griper tak og holder på en lenge etter at sluttekstene er ferdig. Vi ønsker å gi en særlig oppmerksomhet til den danske regissøren Peter Schønau Fog og hans film Kunsten å gråte i kor.

Stars for "Kunsten at græde i kor" in danish newspapers

Apparently there is still a lot of truth in the saying 'through Adversity to the Stars'... (PSF)

Åbenbart er der stadig noget sandt i at 'den længste vej går til stjernerne'... (PSF)

Berlingske Tidende
* * * * * *
Man kan ganske enkelt ikke forestille sig, hvordan dette dæmpet vittige, lavmælt gribende og stilfærdigt rystende værk kunne have været lavet bedre

Århus Stiftstidende
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En perfekt film? Ja det ligner ”Kunsten at græde i kor” faktisk

Politiken
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Denne imponerende sikre og selvstændige debut er udfoldet så paradoksalt fornøjeligt og underholdende lige midt i det sorte syn

Jyllands- Posten
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Humoren er sort, tæt og grotesk i Peter Schønau Fogs fremragende debutfilm. Forventninger indfriet

Information
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”Kunsten at græde i kor” er en lille perle

KultuNaut
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Instruktøren Peter Schønau Fog begået intet mindre end et mesterværk

Børsen
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”Kunsten at græde i kor” er givetvis sæsonens vigtigste danske film.

Urban
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Peter Schønau Fogs spillefilmsdebut er morsom, tragisk, foruroligende og tankevækkende. På en og samme tid

B.T.
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Vi griner i kor af ”Kunsten at græde i kor” – for filmen er så sørgelig, at man er nødt til at grine - men latteren stikker i halsen

Ekstra Bladet
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En stor, rig dansk film med en skøn og lun historie.

Søndagsavisen
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”Kunsten at græde i kor” er ganske enkelt stærk, modig, væsentlig og troværdig på alle planer

Nyhedsavisen
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Genistregen er at fortælle hele denne forfærdelige historie gennem et barns naive sind. Se den, du bliver måske klogere på det ubegribelige

Filmland/DR
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En film, der tør gå sine egne veje og gør det fuldt ud fra ende til anden. En umådelig gennemført film

TV2/Go´ Morgen Danmark
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Det er en rigtig god film. Det er frygteligt, men også smukt. En film om kærlighed, loyalitet og håb

TV2 Lorry/Brunch
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Man har den med sig lang tid efter, man har set den

Fyens Stiftstidende
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Med Peter Schønau Fogs stærke og velspillede familiedrama vender dansk film tilbage til rødderne. En film med noget på hjertet

Nordjyske Stiftstidende
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Kristeligt Dagblad
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”Kunsten at græde i kor” er en uhyggelig god film. Overordentlig seværdig

Jydske Vestkysten
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Femina
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En perlerække af overbevisende skuespillerpræstationer. Velfortalt og vedkommende

Se og Hør
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Det er en fantastisk film

Smagsdommerne

Stars for "Kunsten at græde i kor" in danish magazines

Bazar
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Det er meget længe siden, dansk film har set noget lignende. Se den!

IN
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Fantastisk forfærdeligt! Det er så hæsligt, så i øjenhøjde, så nærværende, så virkeligt, så underspillet, så velspillet…

Gear
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Et knugende, knusende vellykket komediedrama

Costume
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På én gang den herligste og den frygteligste nyere danske film

Cover
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En sublim, morsom, brutal og kærlig film

Euroman
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En frysende, fremragende og foruroligende film.

Kiwi Magazine
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En seværdig, overbevisende og morsom film om at overleve sin barndom

Arena
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I dén grad en anderledes film. Velspillet og velfortalt

Mifune
En genistreg gennemsyret af sort humor, tragedie og smil gennem tårer

Eurowoman
En vanvittig morsom og vigtig film

Nova
En helt klart anderledes men meget spændende filmoplevelse

European Film Festival of Brussels

THE ART OF CRYING has been selected for

European Film Festival of Brussels

(June 29 - July 7)

In competition

The Brussels European Film Festival will be organized this year for the fifth time from June 29 until July 7, 2007. The Festival will mainly present first or second feature films from European directors. Thanks to the cooperation with the Belgian Royal Filmarchive, the Festival also presents a worldwide filmselection.

Kunsten at græde i kor wins the FIPRESCI AWARD in Lecce, Italy too!!

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at græde i kor

wins the:

FIPRESCI AWARD

in

FESTIVAL DEL CINEMA EUROPEO

Lecce, Italy.

The FIPRESCI Jury composed by Critics Marina Sanna, Ioanna Papageorgiou, Matyas Gyozo awards the prize to The Art of Crying by Peter Schonau Fog.

For the capacity of telling in a tragic, ironic way the sorrows and perversions of a family, through the eyes of an adolescent.

Read more here.

Congratulations to the cast and crew!

Vote for The Art of Crying!

Vote for The Art of Crying for “AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD for BEST FEATURE FILM” at Nashville filmfestival!

HERE at DISHMAG!

The Art of Crying wins The FIPRESCI AWARD in Istanbul, Turkey

FIPRESCI AWARD
The FIPRESCI Jury of the 26th International Istanbul Film Festival presided over by Miguel Somsen (Portugal), and composed of Cüneyt Cebenoyan (Turkey), Katharina Dockhorn (Germany), Marina Drozdova (Poland), Nathan Lee (USA) and Uygar Şirin (Turkey), gave:

The FIPRESCI Award in the International Competition to "KUNSTEN AT GRAEDE I KOR / THE ART OF CRYING" by Peter Schønau Fog (Denmark), for telling the story of a family with secrets everybody knows about but nobody speaks about it, balancing comedy and tragedy. You will never feel detached by this intense portrait of a Danish family, seen through the innocent point of view of a child.

Kunsten at Græde i Kor Featured in FILM(DFI)

The DFI magazine FILM features interviews with actor Jesper Asholt and director Peter Schønau Fog written by Liselotte Michelsen and Morten Piil(in danish).

Download as pdf here. Or as html here and here.

Canberra International Film Festival

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at græde i kor has been invited to the:

Canberra International Film Festival

(October 24 - November 4) Australia

Peter Schønau Fog modtager Natsværmerprisen

Ritzau: Torsdag den 22. marts 2007

Instruktør Peter Schønau Fog
modtager her til aften Natsværmerprisen

Hans prisvindende spillefilmsdebut ”Kunsten at græde i kor” får Danmarkspremiere fredag den 27. april.
I aften er der officiel åbningsgalla i Dagmar Teatret i København for årets NatFilm Festival. Den ærefulde åbningsfilm er det prisvindende drama ”Kunsten at græde i kor”, men inden festivalen for alvor kan skydes i gang, skal filmens instruktør Peter Schønau Fog på scenen for at modtage dette års prestigefulde Natsværmerpris – NatFilm Festivalens ærespris.

Natsværmerfonden uddeler hvert år prisen til unge danske filmtalenter, som har ydet et værdifuldt bidrag til dansk film, og med prisen følger 25.000 kr. og et kunstværk af Alexander Tovborg. Et uddrag af bestyrelsens motivation er: ”Vi er mange, der har ventet og ventet på at se hans karriere folde sig ud. Nu sker det, og det har været ventetiden værd. Hans spillefilmsdebut er en modig og sikker debut, der takler et svært emne uden at ryste på hånden, får det optimale ud af både professionelle skuespillere som amatører, og som tør at udfordre vore vaner og forventninger ved at være indspillet på klingende sønderjysk.”

Natsværmerprisen bliver som oftest uddelt til talenter i udvikling, og Peter Schønau Fog er allerede rigtigt godt på vej. Tilbage i 2000 blev han indstillet til en Student Academy Award for sin afgangsfilm ”Lille Mænsk”, og ”Kunsten at græde i kor” har allerede nu modtaget en række priser og ikke mindst masser af roser. Siden Verdenspremieren ved Toronto Film Festival har filmen været på en imponerende verdensturné - bl.a. San Sebastián (Tildelt Ungdomsjuryens pris), Tokyo International Film Festival, AFI / Los Angeles (Juryens special mention) og Mannheim-Heidelberg (Tildelt Publikumsprisen, Special mention til Jesper Asholt og De Tyske Biografejeres Anbefaling). Ved Gøteborg i februar modtog Harald Gunnar Paalgaard desuden den prestigefulde ”The Kodak Nordic Vision Award” for Bedste Fotografering.

”Kunsten at græde i kor” er i løbet af dette forår udtaget til at deltage i endnu en række Film Festivaler over hele verden: Sofia International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Vilnius International Film Festival, Istanbul International Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival og Jerusalem Film Festival.

Senest er ”Kunsten at græde i kor” blevet inviteret til New Directors/New Films, som anses være en af verdens mest eksklusive præsentationer af debutant film fra hele verden.

”Kunsten at græde i kor” er baseret på Erling Jepsens succesfulde roman af samme navn og får Danmarkspremiere fredag den 27. april. ”Kunsten at græde i kor” er produceret af Final Cut Productions.

Se også: Politiken

Festroia International Film Festival

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at Græde i Kor has been invited to:

The First Works Competition

Festroia International Film Festival

Portugal (June 1 - 10)

First Works (competition) present first works, giving the Portuguese audiences the possibility of discovering the first feature films of directors whose importance for the future evolution of the medium will be acknowledge by film critics and historians.

Setúbal
Setúbal, the headquarters of the International Film festival, is the centre of a vast region of unique characteristics, both in its landscape that greatly justifies its tourist vocation, and in its economic diversity, divided between traditional activities, such as fishing and agriculture, and the most modern industry.

Seattle International Film Festival

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at græde i Kor has been invited to:

Seattle International Film Festival.

(24. May - 17. June)

Trondheim International Filmfestival

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at Græde i kor Has been invited to:

Trondheim International Filmfestival.

(19.-25. April)

(Trondheim is the fourth festival showing the film in week 17 - which is the same week the film is going to premiere in Denmark(27. April), phew...)

Opening Galla at Nat Filmfestivallen

Kunsten at græde i kor

Det er en modig bedrift at behandle et emne som incest med sort humor. Men når det lykkes så ubetinget elegant og underholdende som i Peter Schønau Fogs intelligente filmatisering af Erling Jepsens bestseller af samme navn, kan man kun have respekt for valget. Instruktøren tager nemlig sin historie alvorligt – her er ingen ironisk distance, blot en velfungerende galgenhumor. Jesper Asholt leverer en spektakulær præstation som den ynkelige og selvoptagede familiefar, der klynker af selvmedlidenhed, imens han misbruger sin datter og manipulerer sin familie i en lille, sønderjysk by i 1970’erne. Sceneriet iagttages gennem øjnene af den 11-årige søn Allan, hvis barnlige naivitet ikke begriber situationens alvor, og det forlener portrættet af den dobbeltmoralske familie med så meget tragikomik, at man griner højt mere end én gang. Det er en imponerende balancegang uden et eneste fejltrin, og ’Kunsten at Græde i Kor’ har af samme grund hittet stort på festivaler blandt både kritikere og publikum. Fog beskriver miljøet, så man kan mærke de brune fløjlsbukser og stueurets konstante tikken, og autenticiteten understreges af, at dialogen er på klingende sønderjysk.

22/3/2007

København
21:30 (Dagmar)

Kolding
21:30 (Kolding: Kolding BioCenter)

Odense
19:00 (Odense: Cafe Biografen)

Århus
18:30 (Århus: CinemaxX)

(Hold og spillere - skynd jer at bestille billetter til visningen i Kbh - så kan vi få en aften ud af det... Mvh Peter)