Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg, behind several commercial productions including the TV series Shit Happens and family film One, Two, Three Go (Robert Audience Award 2017) is directing based on a script by Anne-Marie Olesen Thinghuus (Black Widows). 

The feel-good movie tells of three long-time girlfriends who find a new lease on life when they travel from Denmark to Puglia, Italy to attend a cooking class.

In the starring roles are Kirsten Olesen (The Legacy) as Marie, whose happy family life fell apart when her husband left her on Christmas Eve, Stina Ekblad (Wallander, Thicker Than Water) as Berling, the eternal ‘bachelor’ who lives life to the full, but has relationship problems with her daughter, and Kirsten Lehfeldt (Men & Chicken, The Legacy) as the widowed Vanja, attached to her past.

Other cast members include Michele Venitucci (Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle), Troels Lyby (The Idiots), Rasmus Botoft (The Legacy) and Mia Lyhne (The Boss Of It All).

The film is produced by Nina Lyng and Eva Juel Hammerich for Nepenthe Film, in co-production with Italy’s Lume Film with financing from SF Studios, LevelK, FilmFyn, the Danish Film Institute, First Lady Film, Apulia Film Fund, the Italian tax Credit,  Puglia Promozione and Gislev Rejser & Alm.

SF Studios will handle the domestic premiere October 22, 2020, with a 70+ screen release. 

LevelK’s slate also includes the Finnish film Games People Play by Jenni Toivoniemi,  screening at the Norwegian Film Festival’s Nordic Focus this week, and the upcoming biopic Tove directed by Zaida Bergroth.