Lucky One

• Mia Engberg
• 77 min
• Sweden, Norway, Finland
• 2019
• Fiction

Well-poised, intelligent, and apt as Mia Engberg goes from documentary to fiction and explores “the visual silence.”

Just as in Engberg’s Guldbagge-awarded documentary Belleville Baby (GFF 2013), a dialog between Mia and Vincent is in progress. “Yes, but imagine if,” Mia says, and unfolds a long story that is not possible. Together with the recalcitrant Vincent, she develops a painful, modern, and at the same time timeless tale. The aging gangster Vincent works long nights and dreams about another life. When he is unexpectedly given responsibility for his teenage daughter, Adina, life begins to change. The film takes place in Paris and at a secret place somewhere near you.

Lucky One is the first standalone film in the Belleville trilogy and will be screened before Mia Engberg’s Directors Talk on Sunday, January 29 at 7:00 p.m. at Bio Roy.

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