The Best View
(Bästa Utsikten)

BY PETRA REVENUE

PRODUCTION INFO

Title: The Best View (Bästa utsikten)

Format: Short

Language: Swedish

Duration: 28 minutes

Release: 2012

 

CREW

Director: Petra Revenue

Screenwriter: Petra Revenue

Cinematographer: Andreas Wessberg

Editor: Kristina Meiton

Producers:  Annika Hellström / Cinenic Film, Martin Perssion / Anagram

 

CAST

Henric Holmberg

Sten Ljunggren

Miran Kamala

Barbro Oborg

Tomas von Brömssen

 

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

2011 Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden

The Best View
(Bästa Utsikten)

Synopsis:

Recently retired Tord has had enough. He is convinced that there is no love in our society anymore. No solidarity. He decides to gas himself to death a day when his wife, as usual, goes to work without even saying goodbye. However everything changes when Tord finds out about the new neighbor. Tord’s life suddenly makes sense again. He meets new friends who have become kind because of the same experience. However, complications arise when others in the neighborhood want to kick her out because she does not behave like everybody else. The new neighbour is not considered “normal”.

Director’s commentary about the film:

“Our fear and fixed ideas of “the others”, those who are not exactly like you or me, 
sets the boundaries between people and start conflicts at all levels. With this story I want to put my finger on that fear and show that it is possible to challenge it.”