Country: Finland, UK
Year: 2024
Duration: 90'
The story of Sophia, a nine-year-old girl who is growing up fast, and her grandmother, who is nearing the end of her life. Together with Sophia’s father, they spend time at their family’s summer home on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland, exploring the islet, talking about life, nature and everything but their feelings about Sophia's mother's death and their love for one another. By the end of the summer, emotional wounds are healed, bonds are deepened, and the grandmother is able to leave this life peacefully.
Biography
film director
Charlie McDowell
(Los Angeles, 1983), the son of the British actor Malcolm McDowell and the American actress Mary Steenburgen, made his directorial debut in 2006 with the short film Bye Bye Benjamin. In 2014 he directed his first feature, The One I Love, presented at the Sundance Film Festival, followed in 2017 by The Discovery, also presented at Sundance and then streamed on Netflix. In 2016 he also directed two episodes from the TV series Silicon Valley. Netflix also distributed his Windfall (2022), starring his wife Lily Collins, with whom he founded the production company Case Study Film, also with the participation of Alex Orlovsky.
FILMOGRAFIA
Bye Bye Benjamin (cm, 2006), The One I Love (2014), The Discovery (La scoperta, 2017), Silicon Valley (ep., serie tv, 2016), Tales from the Loop (Loop, ep., serie tv, 2020), Windfall (id., 2022), The Summer Book (id., 2024).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Charlie McDowell. STORY: from the novel by Tove Jansson. SCREENPLAY: Robert Jones. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sturla Brandth Grøvlen. EDITING: Jussi Rautaniemi. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Lina Nordqvist. COSTUMES: Tiina Kaukanen. MUSIC: Hania Rani. CAST: Glenn Close, Anders Danielsen Lie, Emily Matthews, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Pekka Strang, Sophia Heikkilä, Theo Zilliacus. PRODUCTION: Duncan Montgomery, Alex Orlovsky, Charlie McDowell, Aleksi Bardy, Kevin Loader, Kath Mattock, Helen Vinogradov
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