Systad Jacobsen still turned on, ready for tragicomic love story
- Jannicke Systad Jacobsen has received €1 million in support from the Norwegian Film Institute for her new feature, The Remnants of Pontus Halmstrøm
Norwegian director Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, whose screenplay for her feature debut, Turn Me on, Goddammit! [+see also:
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Her second feature will be produced by Synnøve Hørsdal and Åshild Ariane Ramborg for Oslo’s Maipo Film, the company that backed last year’s number-one Norwegian film – Rasmus A Sivertsen’s fully animated The Christmas of Solan and Ludvig [+see also:
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It will shortly premiere Norwegian actress-director Liv Ullmann’s interpretation of Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, shot from her own script with a US-UK cast comprising Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton, and with Russian cinematographer Mikhail Krichman behind the camera.
Systad Jacobsen has herself scripted the “tragicomic love story” of The Remnants of Pontus Halmstrøm specifically for Norwegian actress Silje Salomonsen to star in. Salomonsen plays 35-year-old Mie, who meets Pontus and falls head over heels in love for the first time in her life. But then he dies, and she is left an unhappy widow with a child of seven who is obsessed with Bob Dylan, and a grief she is unable to show.
The Norwegian director studied directing at FAMU – the Czech National Film School in Prague – and the London International Film School, adding dramaturgy, drama and social anthropology at the University of Oslo. The Remnants of Pontus Halmstrøm will be premiered domestically in April 2016.
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