12/01/2006

Container, the new film from Sweden’s star director Lukas Moodysson has been invited to have its world premiere at the Panorama Section in Berlin (9-19 February).
"I am very pleased and also quite surprised that the film has been invited", commented Moodysson. 3It is so strange that I thought nobody would want it...". But of course any new Lukas Moodysson film is on contrary an event and a hot item for many world festivals and distributors who have followed his work ever since his first ground-breaking film Fucking Åmål (Show Me Love) made in 1998.

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Described by its author as "a black and white silent movie with sound", Container was shot in Chernobyl, Transylvania and in Sweden’s Film i Väst’s studios in Trollhättan. One sentence from its author gives an idea of the director’s new poetic and experimental piece of filmmaking: "a woman in a man’s body. A man in a woman’s body. Jesus in Mary’s stomach. The water breaks. It floods into me. I can’t close the lid. My heart is full"...
The Swedish actor Peter Lorentzon (Daybreak) and ballerina/TV actress Mariha Åberg play the lead roles. Together with the Swedish version, an English version, - to be shown in Berlin - has been made simultaneously with US actress Jena Malone ( Cold Mountain [+see also:
trailer
film profile]) lending her voice. The film is produced by Moodysson’s usual partner Lars Jönsson from Memfis Film and international sales are handled by Trust Film Sales.