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LevelK Boards Göteborg Couch Surfing Drama ‘Live a Little’ From ‘Force Majeure’ Producer Marie Kjellson: ‘It’s About Setting Boundaries’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Fanny Ovesen’s feature debut, which is vying for best Nordic film in Göteborg’s main competition, has just won the Church of Sweden Award.
“It’s about being young and trying to navigate relationships and intimacy, about how difficult it is to set boundaries and to be authentic, not only in non-consensual situations, but also in consensual ones.”An important element and thread throughout the creative process was to view the story from the female gaze, Ovesen explained. Rather than simply switching the male gaze “to a woman’s objectifying perspective on men,” she strived to get close emotionally to the characters, both visually, with the support from her cinematographer Mattias Pollak (“Explosions of the Heart”), and in the character-building, including in the depiction of Laura’s boyfriend and the guy she spends the night during her blackout. To bring a multi-cultural vibe and authenticity feel, the young director cast non-professionals with different backgrounds, next to Embla Ingelman-Sundberg (Netflix’s “Carousel”) in the lead, Aviva Wrede (“Hashtag”) as her best friend and French rising star Oscar Lesage (“The Substance,” “Marie-Antoinette”) as the antagonist.
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