![]() ![]() If you take something from it, it will take it back. I’m very boring, but that ending could have a lot of different meanings. What is the significance of the Lamb-Man reveal? Whenever when we came in the morning, they would be doing what we had needed them to do the day before. It was so important for me because it had been a while since I had worked with my grandparents on the farm. How much time did you spend studying animal behavior?īefore I started shooting, I was hired as an assistant on the farm and was there during the lambing period. Also, children don’t do what you want them to do, and animals too, you have to be patient waiting for the right moment to happen. First, with the children, then with the lambs. How did you film a sequence like the bathtub scene with Ada and Maria?Īll the scenes with Ada were time-consuming because we had to do the scenes over and over. I like to keep it open, but when we were making the film, it’s totally real. You left the ending vague - is Ada a figment of their imagination or is she 100% real? Lambs are such fascinating creatures so maybe the inspiration of her came from there. My grandparents were sheep farmers and I spent my childhood hanging out there. For her, we also pulled in elements from Icelandic folklore. I had collected paintings and photos and even artwork to come up with these ideas – she was there with us from the beginning. I worked with a Swedish company called Chimney and with Fredrik Nord who was the visual effects supervisor. We shot every scene that Ada was in, and in the end it was all mixed so she felt alive. We had four lambs and we had two puppeteers. What about filming the actual lamb scenes, what went into that? Both she and Hilmir Snær Guðnason gave me so much because they were working so closely together. She was so prepared and she had been thinking about this character for so long.įor me, as a first-time director, it was such a privilege to work with her. ![]() We created the character of Maria together, and we worked through almost every scene. What was it like working with Noomi Rapace? Since we also see things from the point of view of the animals, people start reading into the film and start thinking they know what the animals are thinking, and because of that, they start to do that with the actors and read their body language, so that’s what we were going for. We wanted to do as much as possible with images. What was it like working with the actors in this way?įrom the beginning, Sjón and I decided to have as little dialogue as possible. There’s not a lot of dialogue in the film, so much of it is about the visual aspect of storytelling. And after meeting people who have seen the film, it’s almost as if no two people read the film the same way. In a way, we just wanted the audience to somehow come up with their ideas. ![]() When we were writing the script there were so many elements that we talked about. What did you want to say with the movie especially in terms of loss and grief as a core theme? ![]()
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