Film | Pure
About this production:
Pure is dramatist Lisa Langseth’s long-awaited feature film debut. An uncompromising depiction of power, passion, identity and the profound potency of music in the salons of high culture. Alicia Vikander (from SVT series “Andra avenyn”) gives a magnificent debut film performance as Katarina, carrying the whole film on her shoulders. Samuel Fröler makes a powerful return to the big screen as Adam.
We are incredibly proud of all the prizes and honours received by Lisa Langseth and her debut feature film Pure. The film has already won five prizes at international film festivals in Pusan, Viaregggio, Ghent and Mannheim and the film’s lead Alicia Vikander was named Rising Star at the Stockholm film festival and Shooting Star at the Berlin film festival. There has been a lot of international interest and the film will be shown at festivals around the world in 2011. Pure won two Guldbagge (Golden Beetle) awards 2011 for best female actress and best script. Producer Helen Ahlsson.
Director’s words:
Pure is about a young woman’s cultural class journey in 2010. The film has political and psychological elements, but can probably most easily be described as the story of a young woman who is prepared to do whatever it takes to acquire a new identity.
The haute culture Katarina meets at the Kulturhuset (Concert House) acts both as a transformer and as a trap. There she finds pinnacles of intellectual thought, beautiful music, cultural capital and the manly genius keeping it all together. I hope my characters have the same duality. I see them as neither evil nor good. Rather, their actions are steered by cause and effect. Ultimately, they are just people.
Pure is one of the oldest stories in the world. This time, however, it is told from the perspective of a young woman.
Lisa Langseth, director
Film | Pure
