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TIFF Picks 09: Ole Bornedal’s Deliver Us From Evil
It’s been a good year for Bornedal since he preemed The Substitute at TIFF last year. The Danish helmer has sold the U.S. remake rights of the previously mentioned title and Just Another Love Story and he’ll be making his second English language film (he remade his own film with 1998’s Nightwatch).
With today’s final batch of films added to the TIFF line-up, I can now begin the process of completing my shortlist of films to see and in the same measure, give readers a heads up on exactly what an army of one will be covering in a 10-day, gargantuan-sized offering of a fest.
With plenty of research and some hardcore planning, I’ll be able to screen somewhere between 33 to 40 films – all depending on how much time I allocate towards sleep, travel, eating, interviews and boozing it up (oddly, I find the main wear and tear usually comes from the waiting in lines — but a couple of pink pills and red bull should keep me going until day 7). I’ll be publishing a list of 35 TIFF picks, knocking down one by one on a daily basis and in no particular order. We begin with the following, just announced title…
Director: Ole Bornedal
Cast: Lasse Rimmer, Lene Nystrøm Rasted, Jens Andersen,
Mogens Pedersen, Kurt Ravn, Pernille Valentin
Distributor: North American Rights Available.
Buzz: It’s been a good year for Bornedal since he preemed The Substitute at TIFF last year. The Danish helmer has sold the U.S. remake rights of the previously mentioned title and Just Another Love Story and he’ll be making his second English language film (he remade his own film with 1998’s Nightwatch). This screened earlier this year in the year in his native country and one glimpse at the trailer, I’d you’d be convinced this is a Scandi version of Straw Dogs worth watching. Looking forward to this meltdown.
The Gist: In DELIVER US FROM EVIL, the happily married couple Johannes (Lasse Rimmer) and Pernille (Lene Nystrøm Rasted) and their two children return to Johannes’ home town in a province in Jutland. Johannes is a lawyer, Pernille a school teacher, and they return to the rural bliss to devote themselves entirely to the family and the calm and quiet life close to nature, outside the big city. Helping them renovate the newly bought house is Alain, a torture victim from the Balkans. He’s just now regaining his faith in life and is working to re-establish a proper existence. Johannes’ brother, Lars (Jens Andersen), is the complete opposite. He’s lived in the village all his life and now works as a truck driver – at least when he isn’t hanging out at the local pub, getting drunk or engaged in a brawl. He’s just made his girlfriend, Scarlett (Pernille Valentin), pregnant, which makes him realize that he wants another life – a better life. But fate has other plans for him. Far out on the main road, he accidentally runs over the elderly woman Anna with his truck. He manages to place fake evidence that points towards Alain… and then all Hell brakes loose, transforming the peaceful rural bliss into a war zone.
TIFF Schedule: TBA
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