Lone Scherfig (born 2 May 1959) is a Danish film director who has been involved with the Dogme 95 movement and who has been widely critically acclaimed for several of her movies, including the Oscar-nominated film An Education. She has made a total of seven movies, five of which have found wide distributional success. Her movies are generally romantic comedies, including her most recent film One Day, based on the David Nicholls novel. Through bot...
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Lone Scherfig (born 2 May 1959) is a Danish film director who has been involved with the Dogme 95 movement and who has been widely critically acclaimed for several of her movies, including the Oscar-nominated film An Education. She has made a total of seven movies, five of which have found wide distributional success. Her movies are generally romantic comedies, including her most recent film One Day, based on the David Nicholls novel. Through both experimenting with creative constraints and her astute attention to detail, she has come to be recognized as a blossoming talent.
Scherfig graduated from the Danish Film School in 1984, and began her career as a director with the television film Margrethes elsker in 1985. Previously, she had been involved in the advertising business and had won awards (including the Lion d'Argent) at the Cannes International Advertising Film Festival. Her directorial debut in film came with Kaj's fodselsdag. The film was critically successful and garnered...
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