When half way through the journey of our life I found that I was in a gloomy wood, because the path which led aright was lost. So bitter it is, that death is little worse, but of good to treat which there I found, I'll speak of what else is there. Johan Melin digs into “The Brightening” - a film about Dante Olsson (Rainer Gerdes), a blocked writer who tries to live the normal life with his wife Anette (Patricia Schumann) - but everything changes when he meets femme fatale and muse Natalja (Anna Fabricius) and Dante receives a message from God to commit the biggest sin of them all... A film which after many years in the making finally saw the light of the cinema in 2019. About art vs the machine, praying for cakes falling from the sky, going your own way, the ensemble G.A, the hamster wheel and breaking out of it - and looking after lost master tapes. Watch the film here.
