Norén’s Drama (2007; 60 mins; English subtitles)
On January 3, 2003, the internationally acclaimed Swedish playwright Lars Norén begins directing his 66th play, Cold. Two years later he has been through the most dramatic period of his life as a writer.
Norén's Drama follows the artist at work during this time, closely examining his views on creativity, life and meaning.
The film approaches – via the experiences through which Norén enacts his concrete work as a director – the author, ultimately the person himself, behind the expression. It is a filmic essay on the creative subject seen through a process.
Voices on Norén’s Drama
“Posterity will thank you for preserving something of the creative moment.”
- Horace Engdahl, Swedish author and a member and former permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy
"An important documentary. Norén is a giant, and Per Zetterfalk opens his very original workprocess to us."
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-Jørgen Leth, Danish documentary film maker, e g The Perfect Human (1967) and, together with Lars von Trier, The Five Obstructions (2003)
"Very thorough... Very gripping.... This film will, I think, become an important historic document of a time in artistic evolution."
- Michael Rabiger, American documentary film maker and author, awarded by the International Documentary Association at IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards.
Rabiger writes about Norén’s Drama in the fourth edition of his standard book Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics (Focal Press 2007). There he ranks the film as a rare insight into a director/writer’s process of developing a text while working inductively with his excellent actors.
