Country: Denmark
Year: 2024
Duration: 110'
In the early 1950s, the orphan fifteen-year-old Cecilia has become pregnant. To hide the unwanted pregnancy, she is sent out to live with Ida, who is to adopt the child. Ida lives in her secluded mansion, which was once a hot spot for high society, but where she has now lived alone for a long time only with the sole company of her lifelong maid Alma. In the care of Ida and Alma, Cecilia seems to experience a glimpse of parental love for the first time in her life and despite their differences a strong bond forms between the three women. However, all of this is put to a test as the birth of the baby approaches.
Biography
film director
Jacob Møller
(Denmark), a director and writer, graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2019. His graduation film Treatise of the Human Animal no. 38: Heartache world premiered in the same year at the Telluride Film Festival. Madame Ida is his feature film debut, produced by Zentropa.
FILMOGRAFIA
Lille Inger (cm, 2017), Treatise of the Human Animal no. 38: Heartache (cm, 2019), Madame Ida (2024).
Declaration
film director
“With Madame Ida I want to tell a story about longing for love. It’s a story about what we will subject ourselves to, and to what extremes we will push ourselves in order to be loved, and about the consequences it can have not to have love in your life. I believe that love is essential for us humans and with this film I’m interested in exploring what happens to human beings that lack love or have never experienced being loved. I’m interested in exploring love’s importance for the human mind, well-being and person. Inspired by my own parents- and my extended family’s real life stories, I want to examine these ideas and themes in a character piece involving three people in three generations, that deal with these themes in different ways.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER: Jacob Møller. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Stroud Rohde Pearce. EDITING: Louis Emil Ramm Seeberg. MUSIC: Kaspar Kaae. SOUND: Mathias Dehn Middelhart. CAST: Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl, Christine Albeck Børge, Karen-Lise Mynster. PRODUCTION: Charlotte Hjordt for Zentropa Entertainments, 4 ApS.
CONTACT: Danish Film Institute lizetteg@dfi.dk
