Superposition - Expat Cinema Rotterdam
Following its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam last january, where it continuously played to sold out screenings, it’s a pleasure to add the intriguing Twilight Zone-esque Danish thriller by Karoline Lyngbye’s to our Expat Cinema Rotterdam program. Superposition — so named after the quantum physics principle of two distinct but identical physical phenomenon combining as part of the same event — is a tense, taut thriller whose ending is certain to spark debate.
Thirtysomething married couple Stine (Marie Bach Hansen) and Teit (Mikel Boe Folsgaard), together with their young son Nemo (Milo Olsen), travel from their home in Copenhagen to the depths of the Swedish forest to embark on a year-long rural relocation aimed at bringing renewed peace and focus to their lives. The family’s arrival at their new accommodation immediately sets the wry tone for this so-called retreat — this gleaming lakeside glass house, with its electricity, well-stocked kitchen and groaning wine rack, is less back to basics and more of a luxury home-from-home.
This is not your doppelganger thriller of the gothic variety, the film is more a metaphysical meditation towards the realisation that none of us is ever alone, but also never unique.
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Following its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam last january, where it continuously played to sold out screenings, it’s a pleasure to add the intriguing Twilight Zone-esque Danish thriller by Karoline Lyngbye’s to our Expat Cinema Rotterdam program. Superposition — so named after the quantum physics principle of two distinct but identical physical phenomenon combining as part of the same event — is a tense, taut thriller whose ending is certain to spark debate.
Thirtysomething married couple Stine (Marie Bach Hansen) and Teit (Mikel Boe Folsgaard), together with their young son Nemo (Milo Olsen), travel from their home in Copenhagen to the depths of the Swedish forest to embark on a year-long rural relocation aimed at bringing renewed peace and focus to their lives. The family’s arrival at their new accommodation immediately sets the wry tone for this so-called retreat — this gleaming lakeside glass house, with its electricity, well-stocked kitchen and groaning wine rack, is less back to basics and more of a luxury home-from-home.
This is not your doppelganger thriller of the gothic variety, the film is more a metaphysical meditation towards the realisation that none of us is ever alone, but also never unique.
