PREVIEW: Hilma (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Lena Olin (The Unbearable Lightness of Being), Tora Hallström (Hachi: A Dog’s Tale), Catherine Chalk (film debut), Jazzy De Lisser (Project Power), Lily Cole (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus), Rebecca Calder (Wrath of Man), Maeve Dermody (Black Water), Tom Wlaschiha (Mr. Turner), Anna Björk (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Adam Lundgren (Shed No Tears), Jens Hultén (The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared), Emmi Tjernström (A Boy Called Christmas), Martin Wallström (Ego), Lukas Loughran (Juni)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules), director, writer, producer; Helena Danielsson (The Childhood of a Leader) and Sigurjon Sighvatsson (Brothers), producers; Jon Ekstrand (Slaughterhouse Rulez), composer; Ragna Jorming (Kiss Me), cinematographer; Dino Jonsäter (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

The life and times of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (Hallström/Olin), who would become one of the pioneering abstract artists in the Western world…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

A personal project for Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lasse Hallström, this new biopic of Hilma af Klimt sees the director cast his daughter Tora Hallström and wife Lena Olin as the younger and older versions of the artist, respectively.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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