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Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Before the Frost

Published on September 18, 2018

Making it two for two, with the premiere of Before the Frost following 2017’s Papillon as TIFF premieres, Michael Noer landed in Toronto with players Jesper Christensen (vet actor who most recently appeared in the 007 films as Mr. White and who we’ve noticed him in Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia and Nymphomaniac: Vol. I) and Clara Rosager – a model turned actress also from Denmark. This fifth feature is about a one family’s survival in the worst of seasons.

Michael Noer, BEFORE THE FROST / Photo © Marie France L’Ecuyer IONCINEMA

Jesper Christensen, BEFORE THE FROST / Photo © Marie France L’Ecuyer IONCINEMA

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Before the Frost