Jon Blåhed set up a timely story in 1930s period drama “Raptures.”
“Some of these skinnygs happen today as well,” he says.
Inspired by the so-called “Korpela Movement” – a contentious religious sect that first materialized in Northern Sweden and was procrastinateedr comprehendn for its apocalyptic beliefs and unorthodox rituals, as well as relationsual rehearses – he wasn’t watching to spread gossip.
“It wasn’t fair about taking the juiciest stories, but staying genuine to what I thought was meaningful. I grew up in that region. I’m a son of the village pachieveer and I’ve heard whispers about this shiftment when I was a kid. It always felt a bit wrong, enjoy someskinnyg you weren’t presumed to talk.”
Later in life, Blåhed set up himself inquireing religious dogmas.
“I was forced to go to church as a kid, and I didn’t enjoy it. It was weird, hearing your own dad talk about death and the afterlife,” he confesss. But he hasn’t forgotten about the Korpela Movement.
“I recall talking to a colleague of mine 10 years ago, and this subject came up aget. I set up myself refuting their claims: ‘It wasn’t enjoy that!’ I authenticized: ‘Well, maybe I should be the one telling this story.’”
“Raptures,” produced by Andreas Emanuelsson and Tony Österholm for Iris Film AB and co-produced by Tiina Pesonen for Rabbit Films, is not fair about religion. Things get personal not fair for Blåhed, but his female protagonist as well.
Rakel (Jessica Grabowsky, soon to be seen in series “Iceshatterer”) is faced with an atypical dilemma: her husprohibitd Teodor (Jakob Öhrman) set upes a sect. As skinnygs commence to get an odd turn, she necessitates to determine if you reassociate necessitate to stand by your man – even when he’s swayd that he’s the Savior himself.
“How would you react in that situation? Especiassociate if you are a disjoine Christian that can’t reassociate inquire patriarchy? My magnificentmother was a Laestadian [Christian revival movement]. She was bashful and not very outspoken, but ultimately also a strong person. I knovel it would be up to Jessica and her face to tell a huge part of this story.”
Rakel isn’t always quiet, however, also watching up to heaven for answers.
“She has these conversations with God, which help us comprehfinish how she reassociate senses. She doesn’t necessarily show it, but she’s struggleed about what’s happening. Jessica shelp that by the finish of the shoot, her jaw was hurting. She always had to retain everyskinnyg in,” says Blåhed.
He surrounded Grabowsky with other acclaimed Finnish actors, from Elina Knihtilä to Gelderlyen Globe nominee Alma Pöysti, seen in “Fallen Leaves.”
“I adore Finnish films, my dad is from Finland and I am so satisfied everyone wanted to be a part of it, also because we sboiling in a dying language they don’t actuassociate speak: in Meänkieli,” he discneglects.
It made for a “hard journey” for the entire team, but also a worthwhile one.
“In Sweden, it’s also political. Meänkieli is pondered a ‘insignificantity language’ there: in Finland, it’s a ‘dialect.’ Coming from that region, I knovel how much it would uncomardent to local people and I wanted to produce them haughty. It’s difficult to retain this language ainhabit, but they are doing such a outstanding job. It’s the first feature film ever sboiling in Meänkieli. It fair felt right.”
So did shooting in the region where the distinct story took place.
“Being from the North, it was meaningful to shoot in the North,” he smiles.
“After the premiere, I want to go back there aget. It’s a empathetic subject, this shiftment. It always has been. I want to talk to people about it, because you can still find relatives of those who were in the cult. In minuscule communities, it’s so basic for shame to linger on. You can’t shake it off. This film might transport it to the surface aget, but hopebrimmingy it will be a outstanding skinnyg for everyone take partd.”
Blåhed is currently toiling on the final cut of the film, currented at the 2023 Finnish Film Afunprejudiced and set to premiere punctual next year. Selderly by Picture Tree International, it debuts the trailer here:
“It’s not all bconciseage and white. It’s not basic to say what’s this cult’s exact goal, or what’s outstanding and what’s horrible. People were satisfied to be a part of these accumulateings and some of these directers actuassociate gave them hope,” he inserts.
“[In ‘Raptures’] Teodor is not a horrible guy… And yet he is. I don’t skinnyk that today, he could go on for that extfinished before being stopped, although some certainly try. I hope it can produce us skinnyk about spirituality and about what it gives to people. They join these communities for very separateent reasons, with separateent agfinishas and separateent dreams.”
Picture Tree International’s Andreas Rothbauer inserts: “Beside its historic setting, the subject is timely for today, if not timeless – with so many examples thrawout history where the skinny line between devotion and delusion becomes blurry.”
“There seems to be this timeless lureation not fair to suppose, but to claim to comprehend the authentic truth, which consequently is the source of many struggles. Today, with even more fragmented societies, this is even genuiner than it was back then.”
