“the King’s no” lurking in the background as an outsider before the Oscar nominations be announced on Tuesday afternoon. Director Erik Poppe will be disappointed if he does not get the nomination.
on Tuesday afternoon announced this year’s nominees for the world’s most prestigious prize, and for the first time since “Kon-Tiki” managed to be nominated in 2013, a Norwegian film reached far.
the Audience – and kritikersuksessen “the King’s no” have been reached through an important eye of the needle and on the so-called kortlisten before the nominations are announced.
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Along with the eight other films vying Erik Poppes drama from aprildagene in 1940 to get an Oscar nomination, an honor not many movies can adorn themselves.
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the Film is not among the favorites to be among the five nominees, at least not if we are to believe the expert panel on goldderby.com, which is composed of many of the most notable american filmkjennerne. All think the German comedy “Toni Erdmann” will be nominated. The three-hour-long comedy picked with all the highest prices during the European Film Awards.
Historian-criticism against “the King’s no”
the NORWEGIAN GLAMOUR: the Premiere for “the King’s no” in Oslo. From left: Liv Ullmann, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Tove Børnhoft and Jesper Christensen.
Photo: Mattis Sandblad, VG
Of the 20 experts, only one who has “the King’s no” inside among its five Oscar candidates for best foreign language film. It is Tim Gray, veteran journalist in the Variety.
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He emphasizes that there always are surprises with Oscar, and believe “the King’s no” have a good chance to be nominated. The academy has a separate committee that looks the most foreign language films, and there are people in this committee that selects the films on the kortlisten.
Many of those who have the right to vote is busy with family and job and don’t have time to watch so many movies, so this committee is an assurance that these films have actually been seen, he says to VG.
CONVINCED REPUBLICAN: Danish Jesper Christensen plays the King of Norway in “the King’s no.” Here he is at the premiere in Oslo with his wife Tone Børnhoft.
Photo: Mattis Sandblad, VG
– I know only a few who have seen the movie, and they liked it very well. And when the nominations are announced will the Academy send out Dvds to all the voting. So one must assume that many more will have seen the film before the Academy awards 26. February.
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Gray point out says the film has one great advantage: That the action is added to 2. world war, and refers to examples from Oscar history.
Eight winners in the category of best film has action from 2. world war. There is a very large number of 88. And “the King’s no” tells a story most of us knew about. There are so many movies about 2. world war so one would think it was something new to tell. But this movie is original and smart. It is also very touching, which is a great advantage in the Oscar context.
Although Erik Poppe and the rest of “the King’s no”-the gang would not be nominated, they can at least console themselves with having reached further than the very high-profile directors and actors. Paul Verhoevens “Elle”, with the rebel Isabelle Huppert in the lead role, won two Golden Globe awards earlier in the month, but is not among the nine on the kortlisten.
It is also not the old Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar, the Oscar-winner for best screenplay with “Talk to her” in 2002. His new film of the year, “Julieta”, is not found good enough to be among the nine best foreign language.
UNRECOGNIZABLE: Erik Poppe tells us that they do not recognize the old Bond villain Jesper Christensen as kongHaakon in “the King’s no” when he shows the film in the united STATES.
Photo: Nordisk Filmdistribusjon AS
“the King “no” is the of the movies that came recently into the race. The film is the one that has had the latest premiere locally, and has just had its premiere in Norway, while the other movies have been shown at festivals, and several of them have had the premiere in the united STATES.
Director Erik Poppe has yet driven campaign for the movie for a little while and coming straight from the festival in Palm Springs, where “the King’s no” got five extra impressions, and ended up on the top ten list of the best films at the festival. He admits smooth that he will be disappointed if the film not being nominated.
– Yes, it is I. When we have spent so much energy and resources on this are I it. On the other side we are in competition with eight very good movies. The funny thing is that I compete with one of the directors who did that I began as a filmmaker in the first place! (Russian Andrei Konchalovsky who made “Runaway Train” in 1985, and who is nominated with “Paradise”, journ.anm).
Poppe is a little surprised at the reactions he got during the round of questions he has done in the united STATES. Audience to read namely a relevance to the things that are happening here and now.
– the Relevance pretends to be the film’s strongest card. People point out that it is about a leader who takes a selfless responsibility. In these times of Trump, and “Brexit”, with leaders more focused on themselves instead of the people, this feels relevant, ” says Poppe.
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He enthusiasm for that film institute and the Ministry of culture to exploit the opportunities if the film were to be nominated.
– A nomination has no value for anyone other than me if we let this opportunity go by us. We must use the possibilities to take up other Norwegian directors, and actors, and do everything we can to merkevarebygge Norwegian film, that the danes and the germans are far better at than us. We must not bury ourselves in feeling that we are not good enough!
These nine films vying for the Oscar for best foreign language film:
“Tanna” (Martin Butler/Bentley Dean) Australia;
“It’s Only the End of the World” (Xavier Dolan) Canada;
the”Land of Mine” (Martin Zandvliet) Denmark;
” My daddy Toni Erdmann” (Maren Ade) Germany;
“The Salesman” (Asghar Farhadi) Iran;
“the King’s no no” (Erik Poppe) Norway;
“Paradise” (Andrei Konchalovsky) the Russian federation;
“A man named Ove” (Hannes Holm) Sweden;
“My Life as a Zucchini” (Claude Barras) Switzerland
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