Heartbreak
Director:August Aabo
Screenwriter:August Aabo, Andrea Winding
Cast:Adam Ild Rohweder, Anton Hjejle
Producer: Asta Stuhr
Cinematographer:Kristoffer Engholm Aabo
Running Time:25 min 50 s
Region:Denmark
Year:2023
Language:Danish
Production Company:Tall & Small
SYNOPSIS
Albert and Sixten are getting married. Today. The only problem is that if they were completely honest with each other, they shouldn’t even be a couple anymore. Frictions arise on the morning of the wedding, and suddenly, it’s obvious that something is utterly wrong. Through a series of brutal and absurd situations, Albert and Sixten unravel all the problems they have been hiding in their relationship. But is it enough to save them and their relationship? Heartbreak is an intense and poetic tale of break-up, love, hate and everything in between.
Director Biography
August Aabo, is a film director born in 1994. August has studied at the Copenhagen-based independent film school Super16. August is a visually oriented director, who loves to create aesthetic universes. His films use extremely fictional setups to tell stories about extremely real feelings. August’s films seek to examine the world by reinterpreting, exaggerating and creating alluring universes – all while maintaining an urge to entertain his audience.
Director's Statement
It hurts to break up, and it hurts to be broken up with. It hurts to the bone: a life-defining, all-encompassing pain. Leaving the togetherness that has defined your life and self-image feels, in many ways, like life and death. Or maybe just like death. The short film Heartbreak is about a couple who try to kill each other on their wedding day. They’ve put off the breakup for far too long, even though deep down they both know they’re not right for each other. And now it seems there’s no way out. Heartbreak is an absurd and action-packed movie, but it’s also a sensitive and heartfelt film that is essentially about breaking up and being broken up with. And about how you’re not always right for each other even if you love each other. The film dares to be a little bit crazy, as a symbol of the absolutely maddening feelings that arise when the love between two people runs out and the difficult but necessary choice you have to make not to be together even if you love each other.





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