"In a grand rural boarding school, bathed in golden light, a young girl steps out of line from her fellow pupils and into the world, finally visible, but not yet fully formed. Such is the premise of Discipline, a new film by Norwegian auteur and actress Mona Fastvold for Miu Miu Women's Tales, the long-running series of women-led shorts commissioned by the Italian fashion house."
"The filmmaker describes the resulting piece as a "tone poem", different to the work she's produced so far - which includes her first two features, The Sleepwalker and The World to Come, and The Brutalist screenplay, which she co-wrote with her partner, Brady Corbet - but bearing many of the same hallmarks: atmospheric isolated settings, character-driven storytelling (enhanced by costume) and deeply expressive movement."
Discipline is set in a grand rural boarding school where a young girl breaks from her peers and steps into an emerging selfhood. Mona Fastvold made the short for Miu Miu Women's Tales, inspired by a Miu Miu dress and her recent work on The Testament of Ann Lee, and reunited collaborators including composer Daniel Blumberg, choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall, Amanda Seyfried, and cinematographer William Rexer. The work functions as a tone poem that retains Fastvold’s hallmarks—atmospheric isolation, character-driven storytelling enhanced by costume, and expressive movement. Shot on 35mm, scored with experimental drums and flute, and featuring dancers operating life-sized puppets, the film presents a surreal, sublime ode to teenage transformation, premiered in New York.
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