"For Stellan Skarsgård, playing the filmmaker in question, Gustav Borg, was a uniquely rich opportunity; as his character grapples with the decades of distance from his daughters Nora and Agnes, both played with exquisite depth of feeling by Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, he responds at first to their grief and resentment by avoiding it. Instead, he proceeds with a new film about the death of his mother in the family home -"
"Nora, his eldest daughter, is unwilling to play the lead role, so Gustav instead casts Rachel Kemp ( Elle Fanning), an American ingénue he encounters at the Deauville American Film Festival, during a retrospective series screening the work-intensely emotional war-time dramas-that cemented his reputation as a European auteur. In Trier's film (now in theaters), the relationship between Gustav and Rachel, developing in unexpected directions as they work together to excavate the character he's written,"
An aging Norwegian filmmaker, Gustav Borg, seeks to mount a deeply personal project about his mother's death in the family home, even planning to shoot in the room where she died. He attempts to enlist his estranged daughters Nora and Agnes despite their grief and resentment, and when Nora refuses the lead he casts American ingénue Rachel Kemp (Elle Fanning) after meeting her at Deauville. The production exposes Gustav's avoidance of familial pain and fosters an unexpected, intense creative relationship between director and actress as they excavate the written character. Stellan Skarsgård portrays Gustav; Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas play his daughters, and Trier insisted on Skarsgård while recruiting Fanning via recommendation.
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