Norwegian production company Paradox, owned by SF Studios, is about to launch production of Beloved, a new feature film from award-winning director Erik Poppe (The Emigrants, A Thousand Times Good Night), based on the first ever original screenplay for the screen by Nobel Prize-winning author Jon Fosse. REinvent International Sales will handle global distribution rights and SF Studios distributes the film in the Nordics.
In Fosse’s distinctive, minimalist style, the unsaid is conveyed through sparse dialogue, surprising shifts, and a brutally beautiful landscape. She and He find each other, become parents to a boy, and for a while, their happiness is complete. But her roots in their homeland run deeper than his, and the distance between them grows. Loneliness eats away, love fades, language slowly disintegrates, and in their house farthest out to sea in the west, the inexorable question is asked: – How much distance can love endure before it bursts?
“This is, paradoxically, an extraordinarily beautiful story about the dissolution of a relationship. Every project must explore new spaces I have not yet inhabited—spaces unlike anything I have done before. A story that has not yet been told to an audience. Beloved is a painful, visual, and powerful story about the fragility of love and the power of longing. This is the most demanding project I have ever embarked on. I am now mobilizing all my experience to create a seductive and gripping film that will invite you into Jon Fosse’s rich and dramatic universe—through the lens of my temperament,” says Erik Poppe, director.
The film is produced by Finn Gjerdrum, Njål Lambrecht and Rebecca Mathisen for Paradox in co-production with True West AS, Mediefondet Zefyr, SF Studios and Film i Väst.
SF Studios distributes the film in the Nordics with REinvent handling international sales.
Shooting will begin in the fall of 2025 and will take place on the west coast of Norway and on the Swedish west coast in Västra Götaland.