For more than a year, the world’s social interactions have primarily taken place online. It’s no secret that social media doesn’t stack up against the real thing.
For more than a year, the world’s social interactions have primarily taken place online. It’s no secret that social media doesn’t stack up against the real thing.
Annika Pham Cologne-based The Match Factory has acquired rights to Swedish-Polish helmer Magnus von Horn’s Danish pic “The Girl With the Needle,” billed as a “fairy-tale about a horrible truth.” In the starring roles are Trine Dyrholm (“In a Better World”, “Queen of Hearts”), Vic Carmen Sonne (“Godland”, “Holiday”) and Besir Zeciri (“Wildland”). First clips of the stylised black-and-white chiller will be unveiled at the Works in Progress at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market.
Ben Croll Playing at Göteborg and Rotterdam this past week, Magnus von Horn’s sophomore feature “Sweat” has collected plaudits and prizes ever since it launched as part of the Cannes Festival’s 2020 official selection last summer.Since June, the Polish language film – which offers an up-tempo character study of a twentysomething fitness influencer – has collected festival hardware across the globe, claiming prizes in Chicago, Macau, Gdynia, and Trieste.
Leo Barraclough Senior International Correspondent“Sweat,” which is screening at the Rotterdam Film Festival and the Göteborg Film Festival this week, has attracted additional sales, New Europe Film Sales has reported. The film, which was selected by Cannes last year, had been previously been sold widely.
Guy Lodge Film CriticThe selfie mode has two faces in “Sweat,” a hard, glistening study of life on the hamster wheel of Instagram celebrity, in which influence and inconsequence aren’t quite the opposites they seem.
Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Arthouse streaming platform MUBI has acquired all rights to well-reviewed Cannes 2020 Official Selection Sweat for the U.S., Latin America, India and Turkey.Magnus von Horn’s Polish-Swedish co-production follows three days in the life of a fitness motivator and social media influencer, played by breakout actress Magdalena Koleśnik.
A bright and shiny character-driven drama that begins as another send-up of social media madness, Sweat at some point turns a dark, unexpected corner. Ultimately, writer-director Magnus von Horn allows that there may be some personal redemption for his heroine, a self-obsessed fitness star and influencer played with breathless muscle-flexing and almost comic self-confidence by stage thesp Magdalena Kolesnik.
Pink as a pop of bubblegum and only a little more substantial, Magnus von Horn’s “Sweat,” one of the Cannes 2020 Official Selections that plays during this week’s Cannes Virtual Market is, despite all the cardio, a curiously low-blood-pressure affair.
Christopher Vourlias When production began on “Sweat,” Magnus von Horn’s follow-up to his Cannes Directors’ Fortnight player “The Here After,” no one could have predicted how prescient the film would be.
If you have Instagram, it’s likely that you’ve seen the huge number of fitness professionals that have accrued large followings on the social media platform. And though the profiles and pictures make it seem like these people are living the dream, that’s not always the case, as seen in Magnus von Horn’s new film, “Sweat.” As seen in the new trailer, “Sweat” tells the story of a popular fitness influencer that has more than 600,000 followers on social media.
Christopher Vourlias Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer for Cannes Official Selection title “Sweat,” Magnus von Horn’s follow-up to his Cannes Directors’ Fortnight player “The Here After.”The film follows three days in the life of fitness motivator Sylwia Zając, a social media celebrity who has hundreds of thousands of followers.
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