Paradise Is Burning director and Alexander Öhrstrand, its writer, on their award-winning new film
Paradise Is Burning: Mika Gustafson's first dramatic feature is a film with a sylvan otherness. Filmed in a lush Scandinavian summer, it locates much of its action among drooping foliage and wild grassland.
The screening went well. Everyone cheered. She and Öhrstrand were packing up their stuff when the organisers phoned to ask if they might stay a night at the eye-wateringly baroque Excelsior Hotel and come to the closing ceremony.Electric Picnic 2024: Weather, main stage times, access map, ticket information and more“Mika said something like, ‘I’m going to win a diploma or something,’” Gustafson says. “It will be a ‘woman prize’ or something,” she says, laughing.
“I wanted it to be very specific,” Gustafson says. “I want it to be an inner world. You and I have not grown up in the same country. But you should also recognise something in this inner world about how it is to grow up. I don’t know. We were looking for a location a lot. We are looking for almost a year. Our set designer rebuilt the whole home.”
It is worth telling this story in full. The chatty Öhrstrand, who has appeared in such Swedish series as The Bridge and Wallander, is well up to the task. 'Just because the kids are living alone we don’t want it to be bleak' says writer Alexander Öhrstrand
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