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The Good Night
Erik Poppe Gets Some Love.
Posted by Todd Brown at 6:59am.
Posted in Film News , Drama, Continental Europe & Russia, USA & Canada, Remakes.
After turning out a pair of brilliant but largely overlooked films it appears that Norway’s Erik Poppe is finally getting some well-deserved love with his third effort, De Usynlige (Troubled Water). While the film followed Poppe’s normal pattern of being mysteriously passed over by the big name festivals - I’ll never understand why the big programmers aren’t picking up on this guy - it’s been winning awards wherever it has been seen, had a very well received release in Norway and just got some serious love in Variety. And - more importantly from a commercial sense - Poppe is about to be introduced to a much larger audience with word that the film has been picked up for a Hollywood remake by producer Basil Iwanyk of Thunder Road. Yes, yes ... the remake debate rages on but the simple fact is that Poppe’s first film is completely unavailable while his second received only a tiny DVD release in North America so anything tht puts his name out there is a good thing. And making it a better thing is the word - circulating widely on Scandinavian film sites, though I’ve yet to see it picked up in English - that Cate Blanchett is attached to the English version.
Hit the link below for an extended six minute promo from the film to see why this matters.
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Ben Umstead 10/28/2008 @ 12:06pm
My sister has raved about Hawaii,Oslo for a few years now but I have yet to see it. That six minute promo for De Usynlige floored me a few months back. Though I’m disappointed that none of my Norwegian friends of seen it it.
I just hope this remake news will get the original out on DVD stateside, at the very least.