44th Nordic Film Days Luebeck

31.10.2002 to 03.11.2002
Luebeck

Die INTERFILM-Jury, v.l.: Jaan J. Leppik, Per Auen Sveaas, Ralf Meister, Heike Kühn

Auszeichnungen

The Seagull's Laughter
Möwengelächter
Directed by:
2001

Thou shalt not kill. Can a jury devoted as fully to the message of the gospels as to aesthetic criteria award its prize to a film whose leading woman is selfish, power-hungry, and possibly a murderess? It can, if that figure is as ambivalent as Gudmundsson’s Freya. This provocative beauty is a patroness of the marginalised and the maltreated, holding a mirror that reflects, as through a glass darkly, the hypocrisy of a society whose Christianity does not extend to opening its doors for drunkards and sinners.