Björn film

Andrésen was a teenager living in a rural cabin with his grandmother, following the trauma of his mother’s suicide when he was just ten – he never knew his father.

In a grisly scene mid-way through the pagan horror Midsommar, a commune elder with long grey hair and a wispy beard launches himself off a cliff and crumples onto the rocks below.

And you know that things can always get worse ... Although it is not so much who, but rather how to prove ones innocence.

But by giving Andrésen the freedom to shape its pathways, the documentary, with its many traumatic revelations, feels as fittingly multi-layered and unconventional as its subject. not Roger Rabbit in this case. It’s a time he still prefers not to discuss. The regular guy who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. “These sad stories have been going on for as long as show business and film have existed.

There was a sadness around him, a vulnerability. It’s an easter-egg of a casting choice, because 50 years ago, that face – now weathered and gaunt but still startlingly arresting – was declared the most beautiful in the world.

Björn Andrésen was 15 years old in 1970. “We chose a picture for the poster – it’s him at the end of the Visconti audition, when they ask him to take off his shirt.

“He knows he’s not an easy person,” says Petri. The director’s reaction was instantaneous, and is captured on Super 8 footage unearthed by Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri for their documentary, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World. Björn Runge has up till now directed 14 feature films, shorts and television productions.