Lisa Langseth (born 20 April 1975) is a Swedish screenwriter and film director. Her writing and directing film credits include ''
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'' (2009), ''
Hotell'' (2013) and ''
Euphoria'' (2017).
Career
Langseth began her career as a
playwright and theatre director. In 2004 she directed
Noomi Rapace
Noomi Rapace (; ; born 28 December 1979) is a Swedish actress.Karen Olsson, ''The New York Times Magazine'', 27 May 2012, p. 26. She achieved international fame with her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of the ''Mil ...
in the play ''Beloved'' which she had also written. In 2006 she directed the short film ''Godkänd''.
In 2009 she directed her debut film ''
Pure
Pure may refer to:
Computing
* A pure function
* A pure virtual function
* PureSystems, a family of computer systems introduced by IBM in 2012
* Pure Software, a company founded in 1991 by Reed Hastings to support the Purify tool
* Pure-FTPd, F ...
'', an adaptation of one of her plays starring
Alicia Vikander
Alicia Amanda Vikander (, ; born 3 October 1988) is a Swedish actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award, as well as receiving nominations for ...
as Katarina. Langseth was awarded the
2010 Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay for her work on the film, along with receiving a nomination for the
Guldbagge Award for Best Director
The Guldbagge for Best Director is a Swedish film award presented annually by the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) as part of the Guldbagge Awards (Swedish: "Guldbaggen") to directors working in the Swedish motion picture industry.
History
Throug ...
.
Langseth's 2013
comedy-drama ''
Hotell'' debuted at the
2013 Toronto International Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema program. The film reunited her with
Alicia Vikander
Alicia Amanda Vikander (, ; born 3 October 1988) is a Swedish actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award, as well as receiving nominations for ...
. For her work in the film, she received a nomination for the
2014 Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay.
Her last film is titled ''
Euphoria'', featuring regular collaborator Vikander, along with
Eva Green
Eva Gaëlle Green (, ; born ) is a French actress and model. The daughter of actress Marlène Jobert, she began her career in theatre before making her film debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's '' The Dreamers'' (2003). She achieved international reco ...
and
Charlotte Rampling. It has been described as a
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
set in a "fictional euthanasia clinic." It was her English-language debut and had a 2017 release. It describes a conflict between two sisters, Ines (
Alicia Vikander
Alicia Amanda Vikander (, ; born 3 October 1988) is a Swedish actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award, as well as receiving nominations for ...
) and Emilie (
Eva Green
Eva Gaëlle Green (, ; born ) is a French actress and model. The daughter of actress Marlène Jobert, she began her career in theatre before making her film debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's '' The Dreamers'' (2003). She achieved international reco ...
), who then travel through Europe towards a mystery destination. It is described as a drama/mystery.
In 2019,
Netflix
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announced that Langseth is the creator for its second Swedish-language TV series, ''
Love & Anarchy''. It premiered on
Netflix
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on 4 November 2020.
Filmography
*''
Pure
Pure may refer to:
Computing
* A pure function
* A pure virtual function
* PureSystems, a family of computer systems introduced by IBM in 2012
* Pure Software, a company founded in 1991 by Reed Hastings to support the Purify tool
* Pure-FTPd, F ...
''
*''
Hotell''
*''
Euphoria''
*''
Love & Anarchy''
References
External links
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Swedish film directors
Swedish women film directors
Living people
1975 births