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      • Mona Fastvold (born 7 March 1986) is a Norwegian filmmaker and actress. She is known for directing the drama films The Sleepwalker (2014) and The World to Come (2020).
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  2. Mona Fastvold (born 7 March 1986) [1] is a Norwegian filmmaker and actress. She is known for directing the drama films The Sleepwalker (2014) and The World to Come (2020). [ 2 ] She has also directed music videos for several musicians, most notably her ex-husband Sondre Lerche .

  3. Jul 23, 2021 · When I sit down with The World to Come ’s director Mona Fastvold, my first question is an itch I need to scratch. “Is making queer films any easier now?” “No. No, it’s hard. It’s so hard,” she laughs. This is what I thought. Three films don’t exactly uproot the industry. But Fastvold does share words of encouragement:

  4. Sep 14, 2023 · I had a chance to chat with Fastvold during Sundance. After I shared my love for Norway, where she was zooming in from, we moved to talking to her new film, and what it was like to imagine a world that has come (and fortunately gone).

  5. Mar 4, 2021 · In the 1850s-set drama, Fastvold explores the interior lives of two women Abigail (Katherine Waterston), a farmer’s wife, and her new neighbor Tallie (Vanessa Kirby). Taking place on a farm in Upstate New York, Abigail has lost her only child to diphtheria.

  6. Feb 11, 2021 · A lovelorn lesbian story reflecting on loss and those life-altering moments which become possible when a new, impossible smile starts orbiting your world, Fastvold’s film — starring the exceptionally talented Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby as Abigail and Tallie, a pair of 19th Century pioneer women who develop a connection so strong ...

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  7. Jul 23, 2021 · While Fastvold, who is also a writer, speaks of how she was able to “move into the story”, she refutes the idea that the film has her mark on it – or that it is hers, preferring to highlight how much of filmmaking is collaborative.

  8. Jul 28, 2021 · Director Mona Fastvold’s delicate, tragedy-tinged period lesbian romance, set in mid 19th-century rough-country New York State, is filled with these sensuous grace notes, as the childless women’s closeness through the harsh rural winter tips into a yearning affair.