Just the Right Amount of Violence

In his new feature film Jon Bang Carlsen inserts the viewer into the affluent suburbs of Los Angeles, a world where families put on a brave face to mask the tension and turmoil at home. The kids are rebelling and the parents doesn’t know how to deal with them. With their parents consent, the children are abducted and bundled into a van which takes them to a reform school in the middle of the desert, in Utah. Blending fact with fiction, Carlsen shows us how parents sometimes achieve control by surrendering it and how fabrications can help us understand real life.

• Jon Bang CarlsenDirector · Writer · Director of Photography
• Helle UlsteenProducer
• Hilda RasulaEditor
• Morten GieseEditor
• RIKKE SELIN- LORENTZENEditor

Release date

February 15, 2013

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 20m