When emerging fashion model Emma gets a chance to pursue her dream of becoming an international top model, she leaves her everyday life in Denmark behind, and moves to Paris. At a photo shoot in her new hometown, she meets the attractive photographer Shane White and they fall in love. But their relationship soon turns into a dangerous obsession for Emma.
Cinematography
Paris looks impossibly gorgeous while everything falls apart.
Costume
The clothes are characters; Emma increasingly disappears into them.
Direction
Matthiesen shoots desire like a horror film—intentionally uncomfortable.
Director
Mads Matthiesen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Mads Matthiesen previously won at Cannes for the short film 'Dennis'—also about body image and masculinity, suggesting an ongoing fixation on how we perform identity through our physical selves.
Shot during actual Paris Fashion Week with real industry figures, blurring documentary and fiction in ways that make Emma's exploitation feel uncomfortingly authentic to how young models are actually treated.
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