PORTRÄTTET / THE PORTRAIT

NEWS ABOUT THE PROJECT

Screenings from 21 of November 2024.
Scroll down for info in Swedish.

The Portrait is inspired by Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage, but here the parties are not married to each other but to others, which creates the film's moral dilemma. THE PORTRAIT is a chamber play about falling into passion in the midst of life, choosing to stay apart because both are in other relationships, and then reuniting to unravel what really happened. Can love survive time and space?
The film Portrait is about elusive memories, but also about how artists use the outside world and each other to transform personal experience into art.

As Iris and Henry: Malin Morgan and Lars Andersson.

Malin Morgan IMDb

Lars Andersson IMDb

Media about the Portrait after work-in-progress viewings:

Excerpt from an interview with Maria Domelöf, GP.
"Iris is planning to marry her partner and wants to find out what Henry is after - deep down. So she accepts the proposal, and travels to the artist's studio.  What I want to explore is what kind of fantasies they have about each other, exactly as Iris says: "It feels like there are four people in here: you and
my image of you, and me and your fantasy of me." "What images do we project on each other when it comes to love and desire - and when does the drive turn into unhealthy obsession?...At the same time, she artistically digs further into the dark labyrinths of intimacy, which resulted in the book "Nämare Nu" and the film "The Portrait"."

A review by  Kulturtidskriften BOBORG after a special screening: "...There is a deliberate script but it is up to the actors to bring it to life. Malin Morgan plays Iris. She is a skilled actor who can turn her face and figure into a scene. There we see all the conflicting emotions her character carries and deals with in that incompatible way we humans try to bring together in our lives. Lars Andersson makes Henry a person with self-awareness, or rather the lack of it... ...He makes Henry a person with a romantic view of life and above all of art. I really enjoy both of their performances.... The experienced actors have the ability to let feelings of doubt, surprise and anguish fill the situation with life and drama. And much of the film's quality is based on the fact that it works so well...These are beautiful and difficult images that here become a metaphor for memory...There are also scenes of artists working and moving toward their subject with intuitive purposefulness. It provides a connection between art and life."

A review by journalist Kai Martin https://kaimartinblog.com "In the film "The Portrait", Henry (Lars Andersson) and Iris (Malin Morgan) meet up after ten years and the meeting turns into a conversation.
Petra Revenue is responsible for the script and together with Golaleh Azad she has directed.
Björn Knutsson has created atmospheric and beautiful music, which was recently awarded at the Cannes Art Fest for best composer.
For those who are expecting a passionate encounter, "The Portrait" will be a disappointment.
Yes, there is a closeness in Iris and Henry's relationship. But it is also a love that is both distant and close, but never close to the skin.
It is the conversation that is central. How they reflect the meeting from then now, and how the expectations from that time live in completely different ways now.
Both in relationships – she is about to get married, he in a secure relationship he does not want to break – but with an attraction and longing for what never was, but perhaps should have been.
She with a fragile heart, after a heart attack. He with a somewhat romanticized image of what it was like ten years ago, something that may suddenly blossom again.
They do not unite, but still end up in awkward embraces. Because it is the conversation that is the spinning engine of the story.
Lars Andersson and Malin Morgan have a nice presence and tone, they never overplay or spill over emotions.
Yes, there are traces of Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes from a Marriage", a rumination that oscillates between seriousness and laughter, nonsense and outrage. And yes, "The Portrait" calls for further conversations.
From each persons own experiences."

A DIFFERENT PROCESS

The project is done outside of traditional funding because we experimented with a mentorship, i.e. we have mixed established and non-established younger artists. Dare to experiment and search for a common language was the basic thesis throughout the process.

Petra and Golaleh.

The meeting points for film & art

We toured with talks about alternative processes before the film was finished. Guests from different parts of the art and filmworld talked about their choices and journeys. The meeting points took place at different locations in Sweden over the course of a year and the aim was to gain insight into processes that do not always follow the templates for how to create art and stories. We wanted to create a place where we investigate where the interface between artistic film and the climate of the industry takes place. The way we tell stories is changing. We see two movements, a commercialization and an attraction to art film. Our world is transforming at the same time and concepts such as fake news have become part of our reality. But is it storytelling or rhetoric? How do you create authentically in this new world? How do you reach an audience? We wanted to share the experience.

TWO PLATTFORMS

For writer Petra Revenue, the basic idea of ​​the project was to create a story for two platforms. A book about two characters' fantasies about each other before and during a meeting. As well as a film about the same meeting. Which then only contains the dialogue, the conversation between the characters. What remains of the inner journey? How much of the flashbacks and fragments are actual memories?

Petras IMDb

PREVIOUS FILMS

Director Biography - Petra Revenue, Golaleh Azad

PÅ SVENSKA

VI RESER MED FILMEN tillsammans med gäster och arrangemang från 21 NOVEMBER 2024 till mitten av mars 2025.

BOKADE VISNINGAR

21 NOVEMBER MALMÖ (Bilder från visningen på HYPNOS)

27 NOVEMBER  ROY GÖTEBORG

27 NOVEMBER  ROY GÖTEBORG (Bilder nedan från visningen med samtal)

30 NOVEMBER  LITTERATURHUSET (ej hel film, samtal om processen)

7   DECEMBER MALMÖ LiAn Filmfestival biograf PANORA.

10 DECEMBER KULTURHUSET KLARABIOGRAFEN STOCKHOLM

15 JANUARI KONSTHALLEN TROLLHÄTTAN

14 FEBRUARI VÄSTERÅS

I rollerna som Iris och Henry: Malin Morgan och Lars Andersson.

Konstnären Henry bestämmer sig för att ringa upp sin gamla förälskelse Iris efter tio år, eftersom han befinner sig i en skaparkris. Han tror det kan lossna om han får måla hennes porträtt. Författaren Iris har just drabbats av en hjärtattack men bestämmer sig ändå för att tacka ja till förslaget, trots att hon bävar för vad mötet kan väcka för känslor. Vad kan finnas kvar mellan två människor som attraherats av varandra mitt i livet men som valt bort den andre på grund av pågående relationer? Kan längtan överleva tid och rum och går den i så fall att porträttera? Detta är en berättelse om kärlek och om hur vi fantiserar om andra, men också om hur konstnärer använder varandra för att göra konst av personliga erfarenheter.

Regi: Golaleh Azad och Petra Revenue. Musik: Björn Knutsson Text till musik: Karin Blixt. Foto: Fabian Engström. Manus: Petra Revenue. Klipp: Golaleh Azad. Ljuddesign: Anders Billing. Undervattensfoto samt omslagsfoto bok: Tobias Dahlin. Ljudteknik: Sara Alexandersson.

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Biografer och visningsintresserade, klicka på länkarna nedan, för visningar i slutet av 2024 samt våren 2025.

Bioguiden/kommande filmer

Svenskfilmdatabas

NÄRMARE NU

Om du vill veta mer om Henry och Iris  i filmen PORTRÄTTET kan du ta del av deras inre tankar och brevväxling i Närmare Nu. Verken kompletterar varandra men än samtidigt helt fristående.

REFLEKTERANDE DELAR

Träffpunkt film & konst

Vi pratade alternativa processer och indiefilm & konst under uppstartsprocessen.

PORTRÄTTETS huvudman är STOLLAR BOLLAR, med oss på resan är GÖTAFILM, STEVALI BOKFÖRLAG, Gothenburg filmstudios. Konstnärer från KKV.  Götheburgo, Mediaverkstan, Tchikana films samt Vladimir Stoces och Göteborgs stad. Romanen kommer att ges ut av STEVALI våren 2024.