{"id":39210,"date":"2018-08-01T13:26:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T11:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.plukdenacht.nl\/?p=39210"},"modified":"2018-08-01T13:26:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T11:26:20","slug":"i-want-you-to-be-part-of-this-gang-for-an-hour-and-a-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.plukdenacht.nl\/en\/2018\/08\/i-want-you-to-be-part-of-this-gang-for-an-hour-and-a-half\/","title":{"rendered":"“I want you to be part of this gang for an hour and a half”"},"content":{"rendered":"

An \u201canti-tearjerker\u201d, that’s how director Kasper Rune Larsen describes his low-key feature debut about unwanted teen pregnancy and the inevitability of growing up.\u00a0Denmark<\/em>\u00a0starts with a positive pregnancy test and a quickie between Josephine and Norge. So Josephine\u2019s unborn baby must be Norge’s, right? But Larsen leaves parental doubts to the wayside for the most part. He’s more interested in how this new couple slowly trades in their youthful innocence for something more constructive. Although the question remains whether they’ll keep straight on this path to adulthood.<\/p>\n

Josephine\u2019s pregnancy is a dramatic turn in the lives of Josephine and Norge, but Denmark<\/em> doesn’t dramatize it. Why?
\n<\/strong>“Our world is so heavily organized that there is an apathy in a lot of youth culture in the western world. When teens are faced with issues they have a tendency to just take the piss out of them and be like: ‘Whatever, everything is going to be fine’, because we\u2019re living in this world of social insurance and health insurance. Everything is taken care of for us. For me, as well; the story and the characters are an exploration of my own teen years, my young life.”<\/p>\n

Your previous short Epoch<\/em><\/a>\u00a0also deals with running away from responsibilities in your teens. What keeps drawing you back to that period?<\/strong>
\n“In both films the theme is: ‘When should you make the choice of growing up?’ In Denmark<\/em> you can see them living carelessly, but they’re also on a slow path to adulthood. When you\u2019re entering your twenties you\u2019re supposed to grow up and slow down on the drinking and the promiscuity. But when you\u2019ve been introduced to that at a young age it’s difficult to give it up.”<\/p>\n

You paint a very recognizable portrait of that, especially through the loose, almost documentary-like camera style.<\/strong>
\n“My previous shorts were more stylized, like music videos, especially Epoch<\/em>. I wanted it to go fast. With Denmark<\/em> I wanted to do something else. I get kind of fed up with these sort of pretentious ways of telling the story, so I wanted to tell the story about people who are just basically fucking up every day and having a good time doing it. I wanted you to become part of this gang for an hour and a half. To do that, the camera stays on their eye-level. The cameraman didn\u2019t exactly know what was going to happen in every scene, so he had to keep track of whatever was happening like he was part of the gang.\u00a0So you become their friend; you\u2019re there.”<\/p>\n

It’s impressive how good Denmark<\/em>\u00a0looks considering all this improvisation, especially if you take into consideration that DoP Claus Haagedorn never shot a feature film before.
\n<\/strong>“Yeah, he never shot fiction; he did some skateboard video\u2019s. That’s why I figured he would be perfect to do this. He knows the environment, he knows what\u2019s going on. I needed a cinematographer to fit in and become part of this group of friends.”<\/p>\n

Speaking of friendship: you drew from your own life to create this story. How do you relate to Norge and Josephine?
\n<\/strong>“Norge is pretty much a reflection of myself, mixed with first-time actor Jonas Lindegaard Jacobsen. I met him at a bar and we started talking.\u00a0We kind of have the same upbringing, we became friends, and he just took an acting course so I encouraged him to audition. As for Josephine… No, I have to tell you aboyut Jacob Skyggebjerg first, who plays Norge’s stoner friends Myre. I actually met him at a birthday party when I was 16. He was this weird-ass kid running around barefoot and nobody at the party knew who he was. He didn\u2019t seem to fit in but I really liked him. Now he’s a rapper and a novelist and he writes for some major newspapers in Denmark. But he\u2019s still a real misfit in the cultural elite in Denmark. I wanted to use that energy and his way of rambling.”<\/p>\n

What about Josephine? Actress Frederikke Dahl Hansen is one of the few experienced actors in the film.<\/strong>
\n“My original idea was finding a girl who hadn\u2019t done film before, but after casting over a hundred teenage girls I thought it couldn\u2019t be done. I\u2019m a big fan of Frederikke so I gave her a call and she read the script. It was like eleven pages. Her boyfriend at the time said she shouldn\u2019t do it; she just won a Bodil, the biggest award you can win in Denmark for being an actor, so she could pick whatever she wanted to do. But she felt the story and the energy of this one. So we were really lucky, she\u2019s this burst of energy that comes into Norge’s life.\u00a0While the boys mostly play versions of themselves, she’s really acting, because there isn\u2019t a big resemblance between herself and Josephine. ”<\/p>\n

The film partly reflects on your own youth.\u00a0Does it also reflect the making of the film itself? Could you call this your own path towards adulthood?<\/strong>
\n“The difficult thing I think is that it\u2019s hard for me to express these feelings in other ways than to try and make films about it. So I’ve expressed some of them in Denmark<\/em>, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve learned anything from making this film. I\u2019m still at this crossroads: should I put down drinking and smoking to save money and start a family and buy a house or something? It\u2019s not like anything has changed even though we went through this process.\u00a0That’s pretty scary.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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