Maja Lehrer, Gro Swantje Kolhof and Trine Dyrholm in Ever After
A take on the collapse of civilisation that goes to very different places from those we are used to, Carolina Hellsgård’s Ever After (titled Endzeit in the original German) is a dazzlingly beautiful affair. It follows two young women, Vivi (Gro Swantje Kolhof) and Eva (Maja Lehrer) as they try to cross the zombie-infested land between Germany’s last two human-occupied cities. What makes it more unusual – and made me sit up and take notice despite the fact that I’m offered zombie films on a weekly basis – is that it’s made entirely by women. I asked Carolina how this came about.
Director Carolina Hellsgård
“Olivia Vieweg wrote the script of this film,” she says. “Obviously there are two female protagonists. And then I met with Leah Striker, who’s the director of photography and we got along really well,...
A take on the collapse of civilisation that goes to very different places from those we are used to, Carolina Hellsgård’s Ever After (titled Endzeit in the original German) is a dazzlingly beautiful affair. It follows two young women, Vivi (Gro Swantje Kolhof) and Eva (Maja Lehrer) as they try to cross the zombie-infested land between Germany’s last two human-occupied cities. What makes it more unusual – and made me sit up and take notice despite the fact that I’m offered zombie films on a weekly basis – is that it’s made entirely by women. I asked Carolina how this came about.
Director Carolina Hellsgård
“Olivia Vieweg wrote the script of this film,” she says. “Obviously there are two female protagonists. And then I met with Leah Striker, who’s the director of photography and we got along really well,...
- 9/11/2018
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
What if humanity’s apocalypse wasn’t the world’s end? We’ve become so used to treating ourselves as rulers of this planet despite knowing so little about it and the surrounding universe while also doing our best to destroy everything we touch. So what are we truly besides another in a long line of species with no greater hold on Mother Nature than the last? Our demise doesn’t therefore have to be by our own hand and hubris. Perhaps those two things merely place our heads on the chopping block for fate to enter. Instead of hoping to survive a viral zombie outbreak, maybe we should welcome it as an earned necessity. Instead of fighting tooth and nail to stop our demise, maybe our death ensures Earth’s continued life.
In this way the last line of young Renata’s (Amy Schuk) prayer as remembered by her...
In this way the last line of young Renata’s (Amy Schuk) prayer as remembered by her...
- 9/8/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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