'The Last Viking', the highly anticipated new film by Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen, starring Mads Mikkelsen, will open the 22nd edition of the Seville European Film Festival, organised by the local City Hall. A former protégé of Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, Oscar winner in 2010 for the screenplay of 'In a Better World' and Academy Award winner for Best Short Film in 1999 ('Election Night'), Anders Thomas Jensen is the perfect example of an emerging talent whose career has blossomed into an extraordinary body of work.
With 'The last viking', arriving in the Official Section of the Seville Festival after rave reviews in Venice and Toronto, Anders Thomas Jensen crowns three decades of collaboration with actor Mads Mikkelsen ('Another Round', 'The Hunt'…), here in the delirious role of a man who, after suffering a mental disorder, forgets everything and believes himself to be John Lennon. Together, Jensen and Mikkelsen once again craft a dark comedy on identity, full of unpredictable twists, absurd humor and eccentric characters, continuing the path traced between 'Riders of Justice' (2020) and Jensen’s debut feature, the stunning 'Flickering Lights' (2000).
With this addition, the Seville Festival highlights its strong commitment to filmmakers who twist genres and film language with a voice of their own. These are new European voices to be discovered, daring and unorthodox, capable of sparking enthusiasm for cinema with stories and characters that go beyond convention while remaining profoundly humanist mirrors of the continent’s culture and values.
