After the award for best director in the Orizzonti section of the last Venice Film Festival, Paradise is burningthe wonderful film written and directed by Mika Gustafsonfinally arrives at the cinema from 29th August. The film, of which we offer you a preview above, tells the story of three sistersLaura (sixteen), Mira (twelve) and Steffi (seven), who, in a working-class neighborhood in Sweden, learned early to fend for themselves, abandoned to their own devices by an absent mother. With summer coming and without parents, life for the three sisters is wild and carefree, at least until the social services they call them for a meeting.
To prevent girls from being placed in foster care and separated, Laura, the eldest, must find someone to pretend to be their mother.and that’s why, keeping the truth secret from her younger sisters, she decides to do her best to save them, even though soon all three girls will be forced to travel the thin line that divides the euphoria of total freedomthe harsh reality of growth. «Paradise is burning It’s a declaration of love to sisterhood. To those who know your story and have made you who you are. A bond that is stronger than everything else. A blessing and a curse at the same time,” said director Mika Gustafson, who brought together a cast of greats such as Bianca Delbravo, Dilvin Asaad and Safira Mossberg to create an intimate and visceral film about blood ties and the freedom of action.
«For me the film is about the transience of time and life. About memories and reconciliation. I want to show what it means to be a human being in those moments when the euphoria of freedom collides with total despair and the everyday humor in between.” Gustafson said again, that with Paradise is burningproduced by Nima Yousefi in co-production with Tuffi Films, Toolbox Film, Intramovies with Film Stockholm, Svt Film and I Väst, has managed to sketch a multifaceted and varied human portrait where everything is left to chance, with photography and editing – by Sine Vadstrup Brooker and Anders Skov respectively – capable of translating the story onto an even more intense and profound level.
Source: Vanity Fair
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