Bad Moon Rising

"Bad Moon Rising" is the new feature film from award-winning director Erik Poppe, based on the first ever original screenplay for the screen by Nobel Prize-winning author Jon Fosse.

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 the inevitable question arises: “How much distance can love endure before it bursts?”

Production facts

Director: Erik Poppe
Scriptwriter: Jon Fosse
Producer: Finn Gjerdrum, Njål Lambrecht and Rebecca Mathisen

The film is produced by Paradox Rettigheter AS in co-production with Mediefondet Zefyr, True West AS, SF Studios, and Film i Väst.

Photo: Helge Skodvin, Paradox, SF Studios