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Lone Scherfig

Lone Scherfig

Danish film director
May 2, 1959 (64 years old)

The Movie Teller

V.O.: La Contadora de Películas
Esp. 2023. Drama by Lone Scherfig with Bérénice Bejo, Daniel Brühl, Antonio de la Torre. In a Chilean mining village, a young woman uses her storytelling talents to share the magic of the images she has seen at the cinema with the inhabitants, who are too poor to buy a ticket.
Runtime: 116 min.
Dan. 2019. Drama by Lone Scherfig with Zoe Kazan, Tahar Rahim, Andrea Riseborough. A young woman fleeing from her abusive husband with her two little boys, crosses paths in New York with an ex-convict turned restaurateur and a nurse devoted to others.
Runtime: 112 min.
G.-B. 2017. Dramatic comedy by Lone Scherfig with Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy. Hired in 1940 by the government to improve the quality of female dialogue in their propaganda films, a young Englishwoman discovers her vocation as a screenwriter.
Runtime: 117 min.

A Serious Game

V.O.: Den allvarsamma leken
Suèd. 2016. Sentimental drama by Pernilla August with Sverrir Gudnason, Karin Franz Korlof, Liv Mjönes.
Runtime: 116 min.
G.-B. 2014. Mores drama by Lone Scherfig with Max Irons, Sam Claflin, Holliday Grainger. At Oxford University, a new student joins an underground society of well-to-do men who advocate excess and debauchery.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 2011. Sentimental drama by Lone Scherfig with Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Romola Garai. Over 20 years, at the rate of one day per year, the evolution of the potentially loving friendship between an aspiring writer and a television host.
Runtime: 108 min.
G.-B. 2009. Dramatic comedy by Lone Scherfig with Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina. In London in 1962, a Francophile teenage dreamer falls in love with a sophisticated but dishonest thirty-something who promises her a happy marriage.
Runtime: 100 min.

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

V.O.: Wilbur begar selvmord
Dan. 2002. Dramatic comedy by Lone Scherfig with Jamie Sives, Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson. A young man who repeatedly attempts suicide falls in love with his brother's new wife who is dying of cancer.
Runtime: 105 min.
2000. Mores comedy by Lone Scherfig with Anders W. Berthelsen, Lars Kaalund, Anette Stovelbaek. In the dreariness of a small suburban town, an Italian language course helps bring together three lonely men and women.
Runtime: 108 min.

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