The Passion of Marie ( Marie Krøyer ) ( Marie Kroyer )

The Passion of Marie (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Marie Krøyer
Alternate Title: Marie Kroyer
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
102 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Bille August

Written By:
Peter Asmussen
Anastassia Arnold

Actors:
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen ..... Marie Krøyer
Søren Sætter-Lassen ..... P.S. 'Søren' Krøyer
Sverrir Gudnason ..... Hugo Alfvén
Lene Maria Christensen ..... Anna Norrie
Tommy Kenter ..... Sagfører Lachmann
Nanna Buhl Andresen ..... Henny Brodersen
Vera Torpp Larsson ..... Vibeke Krøyer
Kurt Dreyer ..... Doktor Muus
Anders Gjellerup Koch ..... Doktor Lange
Mette Maria Ahrenkiel ..... Sygeplejerske
Tom Jacobsen ..... Den Franske Ambassadør
Niels Hougaard ..... Receptionist på Tarveligt Hotel
Jørgen Nørgaard ..... Portier på Fint Hotel
Bent Maltha ..... Fødselsdagsgæst
Christian Lykke Nielsen ..... Fødselsdagsgæst

Synopsis:

In remote Skagen, a fishing village at the northernmost tip of Denmark, numerous artists gather, attracted by the exceptional light and natural scenery. Among them: renowned painter P.S. Kroyer (Soren Saetter-Lassen, lively), known as Soren, and his wife, Marie (Birgitte Hjort Sorensen, an attractive clotheshorse), 16 years his junior and a painter herself. While Soren works on a grand scale, Marie daubs on canvases barely larger than a book. Marie finds little time to develop her own talent since she must serve as her husband's favorite model and sometime nurse, as well as homemaker and caring mother to their young daughter, Vibeke. Moreover, Soren casually and cruelly denigrates her work, destroying her dream of a happy life among mutually supportive artists. Exhausted by Soren's manic episodes and unable to find comfort in her painting, Marie visits Sweden, where the dashing looks, admiring words and sexual prowess of composer Alfven (Sverrir Gudnason, bland) sweep her off her feet. Since the possessive Soren won't agree to a divorce, the lovers try a menage a trois in Skagen that soon leads to disaster. But when Marie abandons her life and social status in Denmark to follow her love to his native land, she discovers that Danish laws are not kind to independent-minded women.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Marie is married to Denmark's world famous painter P.S. Krøyer. They are among the country's most admired and famous couples. All the great men of the time - politicians, businessmen, noblemen, scientists, writers and royalty - wish to be depicted by Krøyer, and he can ask any price he wants. To be painted by him is a great honour and comes with great prestige. Marie, who adorns several of Krøyer's paintings, is considered to be 'the most beautiful woman in Europe'. Together with their daughter Vibeke they experience all the best life has to offer: parties, champagne and luxury. However, this is only the polished surface. Beneath it is living hell. Krøyer suffers from manic depression and syphilis. He can change from being cheerful and upbeat, to a foaming crazy monster without any boundaries, also within his relationship to Marie and Vibeke. Marie has struggled to keep up appearances for a long time, but the situation is wearing her down. She is caught in an impossible situation between maintaining the bright social life and the hell unfolding behind closed doors. She feels that she is being suffocated and that she is disappearing. After another of Krøyer's violent fits of insanity and rage, Marie decides to leave for Italy with their daughter; to go away for a while and recuperate. In Italy she meets the younger Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén. He falls head over heels in love with her and she finally yields to his unreserved and unrestrained emotions. However, their union is not a happy one. Marie is caught between a new life on one side and her love for Vibeke and Krøyer on the other. In the first place, she was not even searching for love, she was searching for herself. It is this painful road, the road towards your own true self, which Marie is following in The Passion of Marie. And she succeeds - but it all comes at a cost.

The Passion of Marie is a 2012 Danish film directed by Bille August, starring Birgitte Hjort Sørensen and Søren Sætter-Lassen. Its original Danish title is Balladen om Marie, which means 'The ballad of Marie'. It tells the story of the stormy relationship between Marie and Peder Severin Krøyer, two of the Skagen Painters, in the late 19th century.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 08 August, 2013.

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