A Perfectly Normal Family
En helt almindelig familie
When Emma’s father says he wants to live the rest of his life as a woman, Emma is thrown completely off kilter. Thomas makes a rapid transition into Agnete: a woman in stylish dresses who suddenly has no more interest in football. Who is this new father? Can Emma even call Agnete that?
As first-time feature maker, Malou Reymann herself grew up with a father who became a woman, she knows first-hand how children can experience such a complex change. Safe family life is disturbed and the close father-daughter relationship irrevocably transformed. This is why she chose to present this drama from the perspective of pre-teen Emma. How will this sensitive girl deal with her confusion, sorrow and anger? And how can you, as a family, come up with new ways of relating to one another, while the outside world looks on askance? Between intimate, tender and heart-rending moments, recognisable old home videos show the young family in seemingly simpler times.
This film is also shown in the Big Screen Tour 2020. Winner IFFR 2020 VPRO Big Screen Award.
Film details
- Country of production
- Denmark
- Year
- 2020
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 93"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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