FALKENBERG FAREWELL Interview at european-films.net
by Andre Soares
At european-films.net, Boyd van Hoeij interviews actor-director Jesper Ganslandt, and actors and co-creators John Axel Eriksson and Jörgen Svensson, whose touching Swedish coming-of-age drama Farväl Falkenberg / Falkenberg Farewell was presented in the Venice Days sidebar at the Venice Film Festival, and was Sweden’s official submission for the 2006 foreign-language Oscar.
In addition, Farväl Falkenberg was just recently nominated for four Golden Beetle (Guldbagge) Awards, Sweden’s equivalent to the Oscars. It is up for best film, best director, best screenplay, and best supporting actor.
A brief excerpt from van Hoeij’s interview:
"Since the origins of the film were so informal, not involving a traditional script or a producer, how did they go about such things as casting? Did they just call up some friends of was it more refined? Jesper: ‘We had some people that we were fascinated by; those two here [points to Jörgen and John] and some others. And that was kind of a casting process in itself, I think. It was not really the casting of actors, but of persons, of characters. I tried to make it an interesting mix, an ensemble, we thought about it in those terms, we tried not to confuse ourselves with ideas such as "this is not a movie." We used a lot of conventional film terms in new ways.’"
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