The Guest to vie for the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary
The titles locking horns in the Crystal Globe Competition of the 60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF, 3-11 July) have been revealed (see the news), and one of the lucky few is The Guest, the feature debut by Danish writer-director Mads Mengel. The family drama will have its world premiere in KVIFF’s main section, thus becoming the first Danish film to compete for the Crystal Globe in more than a decade.
The movie follows Karl and Emilie, who are preparing for their infant son's naming ceremony at a luxury seaside hotel. Their carefully planned family celebration is disrupted when Karl's estranged mother, Vibeke, arrives uninvited. While Karl wants her gone, his sister Rikke insists there won’t be any issues and that she deserves a second chance. Over the course of a tense weekend, old patterns and long-buried wounds resurface in front of relatives and guests, until the celebration fractures into a confrontation. Read the rest at Cineuropa