“Families like ours”, interview with Paprika Steen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas

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Paprika Steen and Nikolas Lie Kaas, actors, talk to FRED about "Families like ours", series out of competition in Venice 2024

"Families like ours", interview with Paprika Steen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas David Martos

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Interview during the 81st edition of Venice International Film Festival with Paprika Steen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, actors in the series “Families like ours”. The production by Thomas Vinterberg, out of competition in the Series section, tells how the Danish Goverment decides to evacuate the whole country because of the risk of a great flood. In that context, a family tries to make the right decissions.

In their interview with FRED Film Radio, Steen and Kaas tell us that playing a role in a television series is not very different that a job in a movie. They depict Vinterberg as a director that can detect the truth in the members of his cast, and confirm that every actor in Denmark wants to work with him.

“Families like ours” reunites the Academy Award winner -with “Another round“– with Steen, 25 years after “Celebration“. The series deals with the topics of climate change, immigration and the moral debate that every individual must face in front of such a lifetime crisis.

Plot

Countries disappear, love remains. Denmark, in a not-too-distant future. The rising water levels can no longer be ignored and the country needs to be evacuated. As people disperse in all directions, they must bid farewell to what they love, what they know, and who they are. Slowly but steadily, everything is different. All property becomes worthless, all fortunes change, and luck favours only a few. Those who can afford it travel to affluent countries while the less well-off depend on government-funded relocation to more challenging destinations. Families, friends, and loved ones are separated. Some will be overcome by hatred and division, while others will nurture love and foster new beginnings. Against this backdrop we meet Laura, a high school student in love for the first time and on the cusp of graduation. When news of the evacuation breaks, the course of Laura and her family's lives are changed forever, and Laura is forced into the impossible dilemma of choosing between the three people she loves the most.

Written by: David Martos

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Nikolaj Lie Kaas Paprika Steen

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Families like ours

Festival

Mostra del Cinema di Venezia

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