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Someone You Love. Excellent cast, measured dialogues and a solid script
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We are facing a director, Pernille Fischer endowed with high sensitivity and style to deal with issues concerning human feelings. Therefore, the result cannot be indifferent to the audience. Apart from its excellent cast, measured dialogues and a solid script, Someone You Love envelops you with its landscapes, its colours and seemingly insignificant objects. In this film, everything combines to tell us about Thomas (Mikael Persbrandt), a mature musician based in Los Angeles, who returns to his native Denmark, to record an album. There he is expected by his daughter, addicted to drugs, and a grandson whom he has never exercised as a grandfather. His soul, as broken as his deep and beautiful voice (with echoes of Leonard Cohen), will face great contradictions that awake feelings in his closest family and also in the audience. They are emotions that go from the total rejection to a condescending tenderness.
The character, a victim of his own desire for freedom, is unable to control his emotional world and has become a lonely person. Despite being a successful singer, it will be a boy who will make emerge other feelings, as love and affection, hitherto muted in him. Gradually, Thomas stops being the inept character he has always been in many ways, incapable of devoting to anyone, to become a man in peace with the world and with himself. Even if it means setting those emotional ties that he had so shunned.
In the film, every crucial moment of the protagonist harmonizes with the music and lyrics of a song, full of metaphors and nostalgia. The snowy and desolate landscapes accompany the protagonist's isolation and the helplessness of a child who only meets a family through the love of his grandfather.
Texts: Núria Farré. facebook@cinemaperaestudiants.cat
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