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Photo: ‘Red Dot'/Netflix Released February 12th, 2021 on Netflix, ‘Red Dot’ is not your typical Valentine’s Weekend flick. That being said, if you’re looking to experience a visceral, gripping adventure in the constraints of a relationship drama, you’re in the right place. A Solid Thriller Satisfying Genre Expectations ‘Red Dot’ follows Swedish couple Nadja (Nanna Blondell) and David (Anastasios Soulis) as they embark on a getaway in order to revive their relationship. With David busy with his engineering work and Nadja dedicated to her medical school studies, their relationship had been suffering for quite some time – so much so that Nadja hasn’t even told David that she’s pregnant. The two make their way to the Northern Swedish Mountains for a skiing trip, setting the stage for a romantic weekend excursion. However, while camping in the wilderness their first night, they suddenly find a red dot pointed at their tent,...

"We have to get out of here! Run!" Netflix has debuted a full-length trailer for Swedish survival thriller Red Dot, by Swedish filmmaker Alain Darborg. The film follows a young couple taunted while camping in the snow. When Nadja becomes pregnant, David and Nadja make an attempt to rekindle their relationship by traveling to the north of Sweden for a vacation but soon their romantic trip turns into a nightmare. It's clear the "red dot" in this is just a laser pointer, likely attached to a rifle, from one of these crazy strangers. Red Dot co-stars Anastasios Soulis and Nanna Blondell as David and Nadja, with Johannes Kuhnke, Kalled Mustonen, and Tomas Bergström. This is a good tease - I'm just still wondering what happens after the flare. Who is after them and why? Only one way to find out - the film debuts on Netflix in February. Here's the...

"Hey, stop that!" Netflix has unveiled an official trailer for an indie survival thriller titled Red Dot, from Swedish filmmaker Alain Darborg. The film follows a young couple taunted outdoors while camping. When Nadja becomes pregnant, David and Nadja make an attempt to rekindle their relationship by traveling to the north of Sweden for a hiking trip but soon their romantic trip turns into a nightmare. It's clear the "red dot" in this is just a laser pointer, probably attached to a rifle, coming from some deranged stranger. Or maybe a deranged ex? Red Dot co-stars Anastasios Soulis and Nanna Blondell as David and Nadja, along with Johannes Kuhnke, Kalled Mustonen, and Tomas Bergström. This looks solid, that laser pointer is a seriously scary way of frightening people from afar. I just wonder what happens next? How do they escape? Here's the first teaser trailer for Alain Darborg's Red Dot,...

The action-thriller, directed and co-written by Alain Darborg, and toplined by Anastasios Soulis and Nanna Blondell, is being produced by Sf Studios and will be distributed globally by the Us company. Update (4 May 2020): The lead actors in Red Dot have been announced as Anastasios Soulis (David) and Nanna Blondell (Nadja). Alongside them, the other main cast members will be thesps Tomas Bergström, Kalled Mustonen, Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Thomas Hanzon and Anna Azcárate. Benjam Orre, who previously worked with director Alain Darborg on the sets of Alex and The Master Plan, has been confirmed as the DoP. Film i Dalarna has also boarded the project and will collaborate with Sf Studios. At the 30th Stockholm Film Festival, Netflix, through its director of licensing and co-productions for Northern Europe, Lina Brouneus, announced its latest investment in original Nordic content. The first Swedish Netflix film will be the action-thriller Red Dot,...

Netflix and Sf Studios have set cast for the streamer’s first Swedish feature, Red Dot.

Starring in the action-thriller will be Nanna Blondell, Anastasios Soulis, Tomas Bergström, Kalled Mustonen, Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Thomas Hanzon and Anna Azcárate. Alain Darborg is directing and haas scripted with Per Dickson.

Set in the Swedish mountains, the film follows David (Soulis) and Nadja (Blondell), a couple in their late twenties, who’ve been struggling with their marriage. When Nadja becomes pregnant they make an attempt to rekindle their relationship and decide to travel to the magnificent expanses in the north of Sweden for a ski hike. But after what started as a quarrel with two local hunters, their romantic trip slowly turns into a nightmare. Soon, a red laser dot appears in their tent and they are quickly forced to flee into the cold, unforgiving wilderness. Totally isolated in the mountains, they are...

Lagardere Studios Distribution has boarded “The Machinery,” an action-packed thriller series headlined by Kristoffer Joner (“The Revenant”), which was teased by Viaplay during a presentation at Goteborg’s TV Drama Vision conference on Thursday.

Set at the border between Sweden and Norway, the show follows Olle Hultén, an ordinary dad who wakes up on a ferry at the border of Strömstad and Sandefjord after a late night in possession of a bag full of cash, a gun and a robbery mask. Hunted by the police, he sets off on a journey to prove his innocence.

The show will premiere on Viaplay, the streaming service operated by Nent Group. Headed by industry veteran Emmanuelle Bouilhaguet, Lagardere Studios Distribution is set to represent “The Machinery” in international markets.

Joner stars in the show opposite Julia Schacht (“Melk”), Emilia Roosmann (“Fartblinda”), Hanna Alström (“Kingsman”), Anastasios Soulis (“Gåsmamman”), Emil Almén (“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...

The Revenant and Mission: Impossible – Fallout star Kristoffer Joner is to front Swedish-Norwegian action thriller The Machinery for Svod service Viaplay.

The Nordic Entertainment Group-backed streaming service has ordered the eight-part series, to debut in 2020.

It is the latest original for the company, which is rapidly ramping up its slate of originals with A-list talent. In May, Deadline revealed that Brendan Fraser is to star in The Professionals, a loose remake of the Christian Slater-fronted action movie Soldiers of Fortune for the platform, and in March it signed up Shades of Blue creator Adi Hasak to create Margeaux, an international drama about the Munich Olympic massacre.

In The Machinery, Joner plays family man Olle, who wakes up on a ferry between Sweden and Norway with no memory of how he got there. What happened? Why is there a gun, a balaclava and a suitcase full of cash next to him?...

Festival director Git Scheynius and Lee Daniels at the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival. (Photo: Carla Orrego Veliz) Lee Daniels’ Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire earned Mo’Nique a best actress award. In the film, Mo’Nique plays illiterate, pregnant teenager Gabourey Sidibe’s abusive mother. Additionally, Precious received an honorary mention from the International Film Critics. (Cary Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre was the critics’ top choice.) Precious, Daniels, and Mo’Nique have all been touted as potential Oscar contenders. Mo’Nique, however, will probably land a best supporting actress nomination, while Gabourey Sidibe will likely get a best actress nod. Also in the Precious cast: Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, and Lenny Kravitz. Anastasios Soulis was the winner of this year’s L’Oréal Paris Rising Star Award. (Photo: [...]...

2009 Stockholm Film Festival Awards 2009 Stockholm Film Festival: Nov. 18-29, 2009 2009 Stockholm Film Festival Award winners Dogtooth by Giorgos Lanthimos Bronze Horse Awards Best Film: Dogtooth by Giorgos Lanthimos Best First Feature: Sin Nombre by Cory Juji Fukanaga Best Actress Mo’Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire Best Actor Edgar Flores in Sin Nombre Best Screenplay Eran Creevy for Shifty Best Cinematography Christophe Beaucarne for Mr. Nobody Best Music Krister Linder for Metropia Best Short Film: Logorama by François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy, Ludovic Houplain Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 Susan Sarandon Stockholm Visionary Award Luc Besson L’Oréal Paris Rising Star 2009 Anastasios Soulis Fipresci Jury Prize: Sin Nombre by Cary Joji Fukanaga Honorary Mention: Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire [...]...

Cannes Film Festival, Critics' WeekAnna Novion's debut feature "Grown-ups" is a light comedy that never quite decides whether it is about youthful rites of passage, a summer romance or a dysfunctional father. In combination though these elements are likely to appeal to a wide audience. Deservedly so. Agreeably unpretentious, the movie relies on close observation of individual quirks to exercise its gentle humor which, while never delivering a knock-out blow, delivers firm tweaks to the funny bone.

Novion, who is of mixed Franco-Swedish origin, opts for home ground with her story of Albert (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) and his daughter Jeanne (newcomer Anais Demoustier). Each year he takes her on her birthday to visit a foreign country, and this year, her 17th, it is Sweden.

Arriving at their villa on the island of Orust, they find that there's been a mix-up, with the proprietor, Annika (Lia Boysen), in residence with a longtime French friend, Christine (Judith Henry), and that there's nothing for it but for the couples to cohabit.

Albert, who has brought a metal-detector along with him hoping to unearth relics from the reign of an obscure Viking warrior, proves to be an affectionate but fussy and pedantic father unwilling to allow his daughter to explore her adolescent longings. Jeanne, naturally enough, is becoming interested in boys, and there are plenty on the scene to satisfy that interest. And Christine and Annika each have their sidebar romance angle.

Novion develops a love interest between Albert and Christine but allows it to falter because of Albert's obsessive concern for his daughter.

Similarly, she never brings Jeanne's adolescent yearnings to the boiling point. Instead the movie reaches its dramatic peak in serio-comic vein when Albert becomes marooned on an outlying island. The movie never reaches for the heights, yet undoubtedly achieves more by attempting less.

Production companies: Moteur S'il Vous Plait, DFM Fiktion, Film I Vast

Cast: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Anais Demoustier, Judith Henry, Lia Boysen, Jakob Eklund, Anastasios Soulis, Bjorn Gustafsson.

Director: Anna Nouvion.

Screenwriters: Anna Nouvion, Beatrice Colombier, Mathieu Robin.

Photography: Pierre Novion.

Production design: Gert Wibe.

Music: Pascal Bideau.

Editor: Anne Souriau.

Sales: Memento Films International

No rating, 84 minutes.