Leo and Ellen are a successful New York couple, totally immersed in their work. Leo is the creator of a booming website, and has stumbled into a world of money and big decisions. Ellen is a dedicated emergency surgeon who devotes her long shifts to saving lives. Their 8-year-old daughter Jackie spends most of her time with her Filipino nanny Gloria, a situation that is making Ellen start to question her priorities. When Leo travels to Thailand on business, he unwittingly sets off a chain of events that will have dramatic consequences for everyone
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 2 hr. 5 min.
- Country, year
- Sweden, Denmark, Germany, 2009
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Swedish
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- Lukas Moodysson
- Screenplay
- Lukas Moodysson
- Cinematography
- Marcel Zyskind
- Cast
- Gael García Bernal, Perry Dizon, Maria Esmeralda del Carmen
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- unknown - 1
Director
Lukas Moodysson
Lukas Moodysson was born in southern Sweden in 1969. At the age of seventeen, he published a volume of poetry, and later wrote books about poetry and novel. He trained at the Institute for Film, radio, Television and Theatre at the University of Stockholm. “Show me Love“, Moodysson’s first feature film, was nominated for the European Film Prize. Moodysson continued his success with “Together“ and “Lilja 4-ever“, which premiered at the 2002 Venice Film Festival, in 2005 these films were showed in “Scanorama” during the tribute for Lukas Moodysson.
