Boe’s feature project A Taste of Hunger is his latest collaboration with Zentropa, after the director’s smash hit Purity of Vengeance (770,000 admissions in Denmark) - the last instalment in Jussi Adler-Olsen’s popular “Department Q” film adaptations.  

The post-Dogme auteur who turned to crime genre with Purity of Vengeance, the TV dramas Warrior and the upcoming series Face to Face, told www.nordicfilmandtvnews.com that he will “go back to his roots” with the relationship drama Family Dinner. 

Asked about his first writing collaboration with Academy-award nominated Tobias Lindholm (A War), Boe said: “I’ve known him since his early days at the Danish Film School and have always enjoyed his company. We've been working on the script for 4-5 years." 

Expanding on the core of the film, Boe says: “Tobias and I both have big families - wonderful wives and three kids, but we were interested in exploring the concept of family, divorce and the battlefield of illusion. We all believe in the perfect union of souls, but it often ends up in disillusion and divorce. Finding the one and only is actually rare, so why is this dream so big and why do people tend to fail?"    

A Taste of Hunger will be set in a restaurant run by a young couple who dreams of picking up a Michelin star. “They work, live and have children together, but on a fatal day, everything seems to fall apart. When one of their kids tries to help out because he feels something is wrong with the family, the situation spirals out of hand and is about to destroy everything,” explains Boe. He continues: “Basically the film is about food, love and relationships, it will be a big epic drama about the very private moments of life.”

To bring this relationship drama to the silver screen, Boe will team up with his own wife, editor My Thordal who worked with him on Beast and Purity of Vengeance. Renowned cinematographer Manuel Claro, multi-awarded for his work on Boe’s early films Reconstruction and Allegro, is also attached. 

Production and financial partners announced so far are Louise Vesth of Zentropa Denmark, Lizette Jonjic of Zentropa Sweden and Film i Väst. Filming is set to start in two months, between Sweden’s Västra Götaland region and Copenhagen. An A-list Danish cast will be announced shortly according to Boe.

Meanwhile Boe’s upcoming eight-part series Face to Face produced by Miso Film for Viaplay is scheduled to premiere this fall.