Lasse Hallstrom
Lasse Hallstrom
Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallströmis a Swedish film director and screenwriter. He first became known for directing almost all music videos by pop group ABBA, and subsequently became a feature film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for My Life as a Dogand later for The Cider House Rules. His other celebrated directorial works include What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Chocolat, The Shipping News, and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth2 June 1946
CountrySweden
You have to shake off and do the things you need to do to be true to the novel - mainly depart from it, and re-invent, and compress.
It's definitely the best she's done since then, Casanova.
It's getting more and more difficult to define the nationality of a film because the financing and participants come from all over the world.
It's a farce, it's a romp, it's a glass of champagne, ... It's whatever you need for the moment. I enjoyed my half-year working on it, and I hope that joy that we experienced will be reflected a little on the screen.
It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
We were allowed into places that nobody has ever been allowed to shoot before,
I think it's doing important things like taking care of his baby and being a father. We miss him here, but we don't blame him for taking care of family.
The cider house rules are the metaphor for those rules that you feel you have to oppose because you feel they don't make sense to you.
You could have, with organization, done interiors in a different place and done exteriors in Venice, but it would have felt much more staged, theatrical, and these are things that were against it coming alive.
Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.
[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.
I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.