Films So Good

Maybe Alina Grigore’s Blue Moon (Crai Nou) won the Gold Shell in the San Sebastian Film Festival, but the film that interested me the most was “As In Heaven” (a.k.a. “Du som er i himlen”). The film is the first feature film of the Danish director Tea Lindeburg and was the only film that won two awards in the festival; Tea Lindeburg won the Silver Shell for Best Director and the young Danish actress Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl won the Silver Shell for Best Actor for Leading Performance, along with Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye).

The Plot

One day at the end of the 1800s, 14-year-old Lise’s life is changed forever. She is the eldest of her siblings, the first in her family to go to school and full of hope and confidence in life. But when her mother goes into labour, it quickly appears that something is wrong. As night falls and the labour progresses, Lise begins to understand that a day that began in childhood might end with her becoming the woman of the house.

The film lasts 86 minutes and it is expects to be released in the January of 2022, after its participation in a few more festivals (BFI London, Hamburg).