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A woman wakes next to a river, battered and barely alive, with the bodies of two men prone next to her. So begins the trailer for Sara Johnsen's All That Matters Is Past (Uskyld).The director of Vinterkyss and Upperdog, Johnsen has a well earned reputation for dark and edgy fare that defies easy categorization. Are they thrillers? Dark character dramas? It doesn't really matter, because what they mostly are is very, very good.Janne meets William after many years of separation. She leaves her family to live with him in a cabin by the river and they recreate the feeling of love and lust that they had as children, being sweethearts playing in the woods. When a canoeist by coincidence finds Janne in the forest,...

LONDON -- Sara Johnsen's Kissed By Winter (Vinterkyss) will represent Norway in this year's race for best foreign-language Oscar, it was announced Friday. According to the Norwegian Film Institute, the movie "has all the qualities a national Oscar candidate should have. It is fascinating, exciting, profound and beautiful, and the story engages and provokes."...