COME TO HEAVEN
POLISH TITLE: CHODŹ DO NIEBA SERC
In this poetic film, Linn Karen Foerland depicts the inner world of an old woman – a resident of a nursing home. There are plenty of surprising associations, surreal pictures and saturated fairyland colours. Before us appears the rapturous scene of an old woman at the end of her life. There are angelic little girls, flowery meadows, pink balloons, troubadour violinists, and shameless baths in popcorn. Old age and childhood meet in a magic circle forming a symbolic unity. However, these idyllic pictures are repeatedly juxtaposed with the reality of life at the home for the aged: with its gaping empty corridors, perfunctory nursing care and lonely life in seclusion.
FILM PROMOTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 4'
- YEAR:
- 2009
- DIRECTING:
- Linn Karen Foerland
- SCRIPT:
- Linn Karen Foerland
- DOP:
- Linn Karen Foerland
- EDITOR:
- Cecylia Pacura
- MUSIC:
- Piotr Gwadera
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
Linn Karen Foerland »
born in 1977 in Norway. She studied photography at Falmouth College of Art in England and completed 2 years at the Polish National School of Film, Television and Theater in Łódź. Her interests are photography and film. Her works include the cinematographic meditations Milk (2007) and Kiss my Lips (2008), as well as the feature film Red Dot (2008) produced in cooperation with Mariko Saga.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 10th Tabor Film Festival, Croatia, 2012 (screening)