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If the lack of steamy sex scenes in "Bridgerton" season two left you parched, Joe Talbot's new A24 movie, "The Governesses," is here to quench your thirst. The movie, which is Talbot's sophomore film after 2019's "The Last Black Man in San Francisco", will star "Wolf's" Lily-Rose Depp, "Squid Game's" HoYeon," and "The Worst Person in the World's" Renate Reinsve as three French nannies who decide to let loose and explore their sexualities.

The announcement comes shortly after the independent entertainment company released its upcoming horror film, "X," in March and shared details for an intended prequel film, "Pearl." On March 23, the company also released the trailer for "Men," another horror flick set in the English countryside. With so many dark projects in the works, A24's "The Governesses" sounds like the perfect palate cleanser.

Find out more about the erotic fantasy film here.

"The Governesses" Plot

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A24 has assembled an impressive package for The Governesses—the sophomore feature from Joe Talbot (The Last Black Man in San Francisco), in which Lily-Rose Depp (The Idol) will star, alongside recent breakouts Hoyeon (Squid Game) and Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World).

The film greenlighted today marks Talbot’s second with A24, on the heels of his critically acclaimed feature debut, The Last Man in San Francisco. It’s based on Anne Serre’s novel of the same name and follows three rebellious governesses who upend the household they work in—inspiriting the minds of the boys in their care, igniting the imaginations of the bohemian couple who employ them and abandoning their charges for erotic adventures.

The Governesses was developed with the support of BBC Film, with Talbot adapting the screenplay alongside poet and novelist Olivia Gatwood (Life of the Party). Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe will produce for Element Pictures,...

Erik Poppe’s war drama opens in Norway later this month.

Norway has selected Erik Poppe’s The King’s Choice as its contender for this year’s best foreign language film Oscar race.

The war drama stars Jesper Christensen, Kon-Tiki’s Anders Basmo Christiansen and The Counterfeiters’ Karl Markovics. It opens in Norway on Sept 23.

Based on true events, The King’s Choice is set in 1940 when a fleet of Nazi warships attacked Oslo and King Haakon of Norway (Christensen) is faced with a choice that will change the nation forever, as a race against time between mediation and warfare ensues.

It was selected from a three-strong shortlist that also included Erik Skjoldbjærg’s The Pyromaniac (Pyromanen) and Rune Denstad Langlo’s Welcome To Norway.

Norway have never won in the foreign language Oscar category. Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg’s Kon-Tiki was the last film to be nominated in the category in 2012.

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The land of the midnight sun has narrowed down its contenders for this year's Oscar race. The three films that will be competing for the honor (to be announced on September 7th) are...

The King’s Choice (Erik Poppe)

A Ww II drama about German soldiers invading Norway The Pyromaniac (Erik Skjoldbjærg)

Dramatic thriller about a southern village terrorized - premiering at Tiff Welcome to Norway (Rune Denstad Langlo)

A comedy about a couple opening a home for refugees

Poppe was submitted once before a dozen years back for Hawaii Oslo and Oscar loves World War II but my guess is it's going to be Pyromaniac or Welcome to Norway. Skjoldbjaerg's history should help with the former since he had a finalist for submission with Pioneer a few years ago, though Norway opted for a lower profile submission, and he was also the co-writer of the internationally popular Norwegian hit...

Joachim Trier’s drama Louder Than Bombs won four prizes including Best Director, while The Wave scooped Best Film.Scroll down for full list

Joachim Trier’s Louder than Bombs [pictured] starring Jesse Eisenberg and Gabriel Byrne won four Amanda awards at the 44th Norwegian Film Festival (Aug 20-16), including Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Editing.

In 2015, the film was the first Norwegian feature to play in competition at Cannes for 36 years.

Marking the first English language film made by Trier, Louder Than Bombs follows a father and his two sons who are made to come to terms with the death of their mother, a notable war photographer.

Roar Uthaug’s The Wave took the night’s top prize, Best Norwegian Film in Theatrical Release. Submitted by Norway to last year’s Academy Awards for the best foreign-language category, it depicts the 1934 Tafjord Tsunami which resulted in the death of 40 people.

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It is only in its third year, and yet The Scandinavian Film Festival which runs Australia-wide is one of my most anticipated festivals, following the gargantuan Miff (Melbourne International Film Festival) of course. Considering one of my favorite films from last year featured in the festival (The Young Sophie Bell). it was a wide selection of noir crime, jet black comedy, innovative biopics and more that provided major entertainment while also educating viewers on the cultural differences. Socio-economic sizzlers and deadpan comedy set the broody yet warming mood and 2016's lineup looks to be no exception, including a retrospective screening of Refn's Pusher trilogy! More after the jump.   The festival opens with Welcome To Norway, an acerbic and insightful black comedy about aspiring hotel...

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Director Rune Denstad Langlo delivers what looks to be a remarkably timely comedy with his upcoming Welcome To Norway, a film that puts a comic spin on the refugee crisis in Europe.Per Primus is a fourth generation mountain resort hotel owner; he's born and raised far up in the Norwegian mountians and lives there with his wife and daughter. Primus is a bit more racist than most, and is hopeless with money. Since the tourists haven't been coming to the mountains anymore, he decides to go into the business of running a state-funded asylum reception center. But it's not going to be as easy as he first expected. Because along with 50 unruly refugees, most of them muslims and Arabic speaking, comes Abedi, an endlessly...

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