Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Isabella Eklöf's Holiday (2018), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from June 7 – July 6, 2019 in Mubi's Debuts series.Holiday bites its teeth into male-female power dynamics and the blood is all glitter. Isabella Eklöf’s debut feature reprimands a static notion of masculine control, portraying a drug circle paired with a provocative example of female agency: a Danish criminal gang seen through the eyes of a woman. Sascha (Victoria Carmen Sonne) arrives in Bodrum, at the glamorous Turkish Riviera, but the luxurious villa and expensive goods won’t save her from the group's misdemeanors and violence. Ironically enough, the title alludes to a joyous escapade, but in retrospect, it resonates with Michael Haneke’s title choice of Funny Games. The film opens with an empty airport, its long, spotless corridors echoing the footsteps of Sascha,...
- 6/17/2019
- MUBI
Holiday Breaking Glass Pictures Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net by: Harvey Karten Director: Isabella Eklöf Screenwriter: Isabella Eklöf, Johanne Algren Cast: Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde, Thijs Romer Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 2/1/19 Opens: February26, 2019 In one of the few, though absorbing, moments in which cast members exchange real ideas, a side character […]
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- 2/8/2019
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Holiday is an extremely unpleasant film, and yet it is stunningly bright, vibrant and set in a Riviera. This strange contradiction is also reflected in young mob moll Sascha (Victoria Carmen Sonne). Its opening stretch emphasizes the sun-soaked surroundings, but scenes of recreation echo subtle undertones of violence and trauma, the same stirrings inside Sascha it turns out. The glitz and glamour are nothing but gaudy distraction from the immorality. Less of a holiday and more of a business opportunity, Danish drug baron Michael (Lai Yde), Sascha and his extended crime family initially breeze through typical classless tourist treats. The luxury Turkish Aegean seaside villa of Bodrum is a sunlit and vibrant gangster’s paradise at day, and a hyper neon-soaked drug-fuelled party at night, but...
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- 7/28/2018
- Screen Anarchy
By most estimations, this year’s Sundance was not a big marketplace. While Neon picked up the midnight movie “Assassination Nation” for $10 million, and breakouts like “Sorry to Bother You” (Annapurna), “Puzzle” (Sony Pictures Classics) and “Colette” (Bleecker Street) are all coming to theaters at some point, a number of highlights from this year’s program ended it without homes. Of course, it goes without saying that obvious commercial plays like “Juliet, Naked” and star-driven dramas like “Wildlife,” both of which didn’t end Sundance with distribution plans in place, will eventually find them. But they aren’t alone. As the dealmakers continue to sift through their options, here are the festival standouts we’d like to see at the top of every buyer’s list.
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When people occupies the same household for decades,...
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When people occupies the same household for decades,...
- 1/30/2018
- by Eric Kohn, Kate Erbland, Anne Thompson and David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
“Holiday” is already unsettling in its portrait of a young woman trapped by a cruel overlord, and then it arrives at a brutal, graphic rape scene more alarming than anything comparable in world cinema since “Irreversible.” No matter the extreme disgust at the center of this scene and the devastating circumstances surrounding it, Danish writer-director Isabella Eklof’s debut never feels like an empty provocation. This astonishing first feature depicts a world of superficial pleasures with such precision that even the people trapped in its confines can’t deny its appeal.
For Sacha (Victoria Carmen Sonne), being arm candy for slick gangster Michael (Lai Yde) yields a life of constant leisure, but only if she behaves like his prized possession. An early scene establishes the cruel possibilities at hand if she acts out of line — overdrawing on his bank account and confessing to one of his minions, she’s met...
For Sacha (Victoria Carmen Sonne), being arm candy for slick gangster Michael (Lai Yde) yields a life of constant leisure, but only if she behaves like his prized possession. An early scene establishes the cruel possibilities at hand if she acts out of line — overdrawing on his bank account and confessing to one of his minions, she’s met...
- 1/26/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
A great many movies premiere at Sundance every year, some more attention-grabbing than others. Isabella Eklöf’s feature debut looks like it could get people talking: “Holiday” stars Victoria Carmen Sonne as a young woman who gets in over her head with a drug lord in the Turkish Riviera. Watch an exclusive teaser below.
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Here’s the synopsis: “Young and beautiful Sascha discovers her dream life of recklessness and fun comes at a price when she is welcomed into the ‘family’ of her drug lord boyfriend at his holiday villa in the port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera. Physical and psychological violence are a way of life in this volatile household, but when Sascha seeks the attention of another man, the velvet veneer is stripped raw to the bone. Is it possible that...
Read More:The 2018 IndieWire Sundance Bible: Every Review, Interview, and News Item Posted During the Festival
Here’s the synopsis: “Young and beautiful Sascha discovers her dream life of recklessness and fun comes at a price when she is welcomed into the ‘family’ of her drug lord boyfriend at his holiday villa in the port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera. Physical and psychological violence are a way of life in this volatile household, but when Sascha seeks the attention of another man, the velvet veneer is stripped raw to the bone. Is it possible that...
- 1/20/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Greek seller expands geographical remit.
Source: Holiday
Athens-based sales agent Heretic Outreach has broadened its area of operation and picked up Isabella Eklöf’s Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Competition entry Holiday and Rotterdam selection The Reports On Sarah And Saleem from Palestinian brotherts Muayad and Rami Alayan.
Both titles represent a departure for Heretic Outreach, which until now has focused its efforts on films from southeast Europe, the Balkans, and Turkey.
Holiday (Denmark-Netherlands-Sweden) premieres in Park City on January 19 and centres on the trophy wife of a drug lord who courts attention from another man while on vacation in Turkey.
Isabella Eklöf, Johanne Algren wrote the screenplay and Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde and Thijs Römer star. The film also screens on January 21, 23, 24, 25 and 27.
“We are delighted the film will have the strong representation that Heretic Outreach brings – it is a perfect match for this film of ours,” producer David B. Sørensen said.
Palestinian drama The Reports...
Source: Holiday
Athens-based sales agent Heretic Outreach has broadened its area of operation and picked up Isabella Eklöf’s Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Competition entry Holiday and Rotterdam selection The Reports On Sarah And Saleem from Palestinian brotherts Muayad and Rami Alayan.
Both titles represent a departure for Heretic Outreach, which until now has focused its efforts on films from southeast Europe, the Balkans, and Turkey.
Holiday (Denmark-Netherlands-Sweden) premieres in Park City on January 19 and centres on the trophy wife of a drug lord who courts attention from another man while on vacation in Turkey.
Isabella Eklöf, Johanne Algren wrote the screenplay and Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde and Thijs Römer star. The film also screens on January 21, 23, 24, 25 and 27.
“We are delighted the film will have the strong representation that Heretic Outreach brings – it is a perfect match for this film of ours,” producer David B. Sørensen said.
Palestinian drama The Reports...
- 1/12/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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