Kristian Levring
Nacimiento : 1967-05-09, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Kristian Levring is a Danish director born in 1957 in Denmark. He was the fourth signatory of Dogme95. He lived eight years in France. He graduated in editing at the National Film School of Denmark and has edited a large number of documentaries and feature films besides directing two feature films, among these, Et skud fra hjertet (1986). He is the recipient of some 23 Danish and international awards for his commercials. The King is Alive (Dogme 4) is his third feature film. The King is Alive tells the story of a mixed group of tourists in Namibia, Africa, whose bus breaks down in a remote, abandoned village (formerly a mining town). Facing starvation, dehydration, cabin fever, and death, one of the group decides to stage a production of Shakespeare's King Lear and casts the others as characters. As the thin veneer of civilized behavior breaks down, the group experiences the absurdity of putting on a play (for no audience except one lone indigenous man) in such dire and fatal circumstances. Filmed in stark digital and adhering to the tenets of Dogme filmmaking, The King is Alive is a fascinating study in the dark heart of people under extreme stress. Herzogian in its theme and mood, the film's location (remote Namibia) is as much a character in the film as the actors, like the space ship in Ridley Scott's Alien. The King is Alive features Jennifer Jason-Leigh and Brion James (Blade Runner's "Leon"; Cabin Boy). Dark, tense, and desperate, it stands as a powerful piece of filmmaking. Levring's next film after The King is Alive is called The Intended and features some of the same actors from the former. Set in the jungle of Borneo in the 1920s, it concerns an isolated English settlement/ivory trading station. Similar in nature to The King is Alive, it focuses on what happens to small isolated groups under both internal psychological pressure and external pressure from the environment around them. As The King is Alive was filmed by Dogme rules and restrictions, The Intended instead has steady camera shots (rather than shaky/handheld) and ambient music throughout. Subtle yet powerful, the film explores Conradian contexts through the lens of a female perspective. Its influence can be seen in the Australian frontier film The Proposition.
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Danish film has never felt stronger on the international stage than it did with the Dogme films, which at the world premiere of 'The Party' and 'The Idiots' during the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 put Denmark on the film world map. Another eight films under the strict Dogme rules followed and created great international careers for several of the talents in front of and behind the handheld camera. Thomas Vinterberg, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Paprika Steen, Ulrich Thomsen, Trine Dyrholm, Iben Hjejle, Anders W. Berthelsen, Lone Scherfig, Sonja Richter and many more of the country's greatest filmmakers look back on when Denmark became Dogme.
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Estados Unidos. 1870. Al matar al hombre que asesinó a toda su familia, John despierta la furia del cabecilla Delarue. El apacible pionero ya no cuenta con el apoyo de los habitantes cobardes y corruptos del pueblo, tendrá que buscar al criminal por su cuenta. ¿Será capaz de devolver al pueblo su alma?
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Estados Unidos. 1870. Al matar al hombre que asesinó a toda su familia, John despierta la furia del cabecilla Delarue. El apacible pionero ya no cuenta con el apoyo de los habitantes cobardes y corruptos del pueblo, tendrá que buscar al criminal por su cuenta. ¿Será capaz de devolver al pueblo su alma?
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Cuando a Michael le hablan sobre un ensayo clínico con un nuevo antidepresivo, se apunta sin pensárselo. Desgraciadamente, las pastillas tienen graves efectos secundarios y deciden suspender el experimento. Pero Michael se niega a dejar el nuevo estado de calma y autocontrol que le han procurado las pastillas y decide seguir con el experimento por su cuenta. Intoxicado por su rápido éxito, Michael siente la necesidad de controlar también la vida de otras personas. Poco a poco, sus juegos psicológicos se vuelven más drásticos, hasta que descubre algo que le fuerza a ver sus acciones bajo una luz aterradora
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Cuando a Michael le hablan sobre un ensayo clínico con un nuevo antidepresivo, se apunta sin pensárselo. Desgraciadamente, las pastillas tienen graves efectos secundarios y deciden suspender el experimento. Pero Michael se niega a dejar el nuevo estado de calma y autocontrol que le han procurado las pastillas y decide seguir con el experimento por su cuenta. Intoxicado por su rápido éxito, Michael siente la necesidad de controlar también la vida de otras personas. Poco a poco, sus juegos psicológicos se vuelven más drásticos, hasta que descubre algo que le fuerza a ver sus acciones bajo una luz aterradora
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Sanna has broken up with her boyfriend Jon. Because her father is in the hospital, she moved into her father's apartment. In his dresser drawer, she finds clipped obituaries of his colleagues, who all seem to have died prematurely. Sanna crosses one border after another, approaching a total collapse of her obsession with truth. In the end, she takes the law into her own hands.
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The filmmakers who created the Dogme Manifesto reflect, argue, and watch clips of their own films.
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A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.
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A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.
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Cuatro personas planean robar un banco durante la celebración de Nochevieja esperando que nadie se de cuenta de su fechoría. Ese es el punto de partida que tomaron en 1999 cuatro directores daneses bajo el Movimiento Dogma con Thomas Vinterberg y Lars von Trier a la cabeza. La historia del robo se creó en una televisión interactiva en la que los espectadores podían editar su propia película zapeando en los 7 canales en los que se emitía la historia. Este fue el resultado de tan extraño experimento.
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The Name of this Film is Dogme95 is an irreverent documentary exploring the origins of Dogme95, the most influential movement in world cinema for a generation. The film tells how a 'brotherhood' of four Danish directors armed with a radical Manifesto, has inspired, outraged and provoked filmmakers and filmgoers the world over. The rules of Dogme95 take filmmaking back to its brass-tacks - stories must be set in the here and now; the films must be shot on location, with a handheld camera, using natural light, and direct sound; the rules forbid murders and weapons (staples of the much-loved action-movie genre); and, most amusingly, the director must not be credited (that holds also for the director of The Name of this Film is Dogme95...).
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Varado en un desierto africano, un autobús con once pasajeros se protege del calor entre las ruinas de un pueblo abandonado. Cuando la posibilidad de ser rescatados va disminuyendo día a día, y crece la ansiedad, surge la idea de montar una obra de teatro. Sin embargo, la elección de "El rey Lear", de shakespeare, sólo les produce confusión, al tiempo que luchan para reprimir tanto la cólera que los invade como el miedo a la muerte. En medio de esta situación, surgen en ellos agudas tensiones emocionales y sexuales. Una vez eliminadas todas las inhibiciones, su único objetivo será sobrevivir.
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Varado en un desierto africano, un autobús con once pasajeros se protege del calor entre las ruinas de un pueblo abandonado. Cuando la posibilidad de ser rescatados va disminuyendo día a día, y crece la ansiedad, surge la idea de montar una obra de teatro. Sin embargo, la elección de "El rey Lear", de shakespeare, sólo les produce confusión, al tiempo que luchan para reprimir tanto la cólera que los invade como el miedo a la muerte. En medio de esta situación, surgen en ellos agudas tensiones emocionales y sexuales. Una vez eliminadas todas las inhibiciones, su único objetivo será sobrevivir.
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As a visual narrative it is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists of a series of lengthy shots of a tableau nature, each appearing to be a more or less random cross section of American reality, but which in total invoke a highly emblematic picture of the USA.
