Picture Tree International Picks Up Danish Comedy Drama ‘Persona Non Grata’ (EXCLUSIVE) Variety 1/29/2021
Picture Tree International has acquired international rights to Danish director Lisa Jespersen’s feature debut, the comedy drama “Persona Non Grata” (Hvor Kragerne Vender), and will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming Nordic Film Market, after its launch in Nordic Competition during the online edition of Goteborg Film Festival this week.
Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer.
The film follows Laura who has distanced herself from her family in the countryside, and moved to Copenhagen to live the bohemian lifestyle as a writer. When she is forced to return home to attend her brother’s wedding, she discovers that he’s about to marry her worst childhood enemy Catrine. Laura realizes that Catrine has taken over her place in the family and is now ready to do anything to get it back.
Roger Deakins (Jennifer Graylock/PA)
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Few boast a body of work like that of Roger Deakins, the most decorated cinematographer in Bafta history, who has been knighted for services to film in the New Year Honours.
The Devon-born cameraman, 71, counts The Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, 1917, A Beautiful Mind, Skyfall and Blade Runner 2049 among his best-known features.
Widely considered one of the most influential cinematographers of all time, his long-standing relationships with the Coen brothers and Sir Sam Mendes have won him countless awards.
Julie Grundtvig Wester) and his Estonian business partner Mattias (
Mattias Naan). Together they make a living from small gigs, but Casper feels unfulfilled and stuck in life.
The film opens with Casper and Matt working in their studio on one of their freelance commissions, carefully placing some foodstuff on a surface and ready to film it for a commercial. One day, at an industry party, Casper bumps into his old mentor Nick (
Ken Vedsegaard), who introduces him to a man running a shady video business. Casper gets hired and is slowly seduced into a strange mystery - and, in particular, by a mysterious woman, played by