Beauty and the Beast movie storyline. When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until he discovers that young Jønne has taken some semi-nude photos of Mette and clearly is intending to go further in their relationship.
Suddenly the father starts hanging out with Mette and her friends as they practice winter sports together – and there is hardly anything stranger, or more embarrassing, as far as Mette is concerned. It is clear that father and daughter are heading toward a change in their relationship as both have to adjust to her “growing up.”
Beauty and the Beast (Danish: Skønheden og Udyret) is a 1983 Danish drama film written and directed by Nils Malmros. The film stars Line Arlien-Søborg as a sexually active 16-year-old and Jesper Klein as the father who struggles to accept his daughter’s relationships with boys as well as his own jealousy. Malmros, who had worked with the young Arlien-Søborg on his coming-of-age drama, Tree of Knowledge, wrote the role of the daughter specifically for her.
Beauty and the Beast (1983)
Directed by: Nils Malmros
Starring: Line Arlien-Søborg, Jesper Klein, Carsten Jørgensen, Merete Voldstedlund, Brian Theibel, Eva Gram Schjoldager, Michael Nørgaard, Jan Johansen, Lone Elliot, Hans Otto Hjort Hansen
Screenplay by: Nils Malmros
Production Design by: Peter Høimark
Cinematography by: Jan Weincke
Film Editing by: Birger Møller Jensen
Costume Design by: Manon Rasmussen
Makeup Department: Birthe Lyngsøe
Music by: Gunner Møller Pedersen
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Kærne Film
Release Date: November 11, 1983
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