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71% Tomatometer 7 Reviews 45% Audience Score 100+ Ratings A 16-year-old Danish model (Maria Palm) becomes obsessed with a top photographer (Ed Skrein) while trying to hit the big time in Paris. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Buy Now

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The Model | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times The Model digs into the sexual-political economy of Paris fashion through the experience of Emma (Danish model Maria Palm in her acting debut), a naive teen alone in a foreign land, chasing her dreams of fame and fortune. Aug 12, 2016 Full Review The Model | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Neil Genzlinger New York Times The bodies are thin in the Danish film "The Model" and so is the plot, though the real-life model who plays the lead role acquits herself well enough. Aug 11, 2016 Full Review The Model | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Diego Semerene Slant Magazine The film unapologetically warns us at every turn that fashion is nothing but a business, fueled by naivet and rape. Rated: 3.5/4 Aug 8, 2016 Full Review The Model | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Jim Alexander The Young Folks The Model is one of those films you can't seem to take your eyes off. It had me engaged throughout the ugly, sexy and suspenseful parts. Rated: 8/10 Aug 23, 2016 Full Review The Model | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Oktay Ege Kozak The Playlist Takes its classic melodramatic premise and almost goes out of its way to cram it full of stale tropes while making sure that nothing original or unique is said. Rated: D- Aug 13, 2016 Full Review The Model | Rotten Tomatoes (6) David Noh Film Journal International Highly recommended to anti-fashionistas for its unblinking look at the stench beneath the couture. Aug 12, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member An interesting point of view from a model whose young face invades the world of fashion and she falls in love with the photographer. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member The film's plot is based on the fashion industry, and it describes how the industry works in real life. How superficial the industry is, how superficial its workers and leaders are, and therefore also how superficial an impact, it has on the rest of society.The primary role is not played by a person, but instead by The Model; with its infantile, narcissistic and self-absorbed culture, which slowly, but surely, strengthens the formlessness of our society. The secondary lead role, is played by the female actor Maria Palm, who portrays the character Emma, ​​a danish teenager, who travels to Paris, in order to become a model. The name Emma is originally a short form of Germanic names that began with the element sleeve meaning "whole" or "universal". So my interpretation, is that Emma, ​​embraces the whole mentality of the model industry and, as a consequence, also embodies the lack of personal development, in our infantile popular culture.The other characters are more or less, in orbit around Emma, ​​and so they either try to use or abuse her, like the hungry satellites, of external stimuli that they have evolved into. So basically, they represent the rest of us, in orbit around the models and celebrities we watch on a screen.Perhaps one could state that our society has lost its traditional context. And so this movie, describe what happens in the context of no context, nothing.The Model, is a film that should be followed up with a debate, about where the society is headed. For the point of the film is simple; us the people, has allowed, to enter this lack of the same Limbo-Life, where all we do, is to seek out, our next empty pleasure.Our society model has become dysfunctional. It is not developing us in a natural manner, into mature individuals. Instead, it keeps us locked, in infantile behaviour.We need a new society model. Or perhaps, in reality, part of the old. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member another film that glamourizes the industry and blames the model for the abuses she encounters. Rated 1.5/5 Stars • Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review adam b Slowburn drama/romance, it's subtle but executed brilliantly Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Goes to show how sh*ty the model industry is. Rated 2.5/5 Stars • Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Crash and burn story of a young woman in the fashion industry. Left more to be desired. Weak story. Stereotyped male roles. Very obviously aimed at the bewildered and confused world of young women who so often pin their hopes and dreams on making it as a fashion model. Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Mads Matthiesen Director Maria Palm Emma Ed Skrein Shane White Charlotte Tomaszewska Zofia Thierry Hancisse Bernard Marco Ilsø Frederik
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Movie Info

Synopsis A 16-year-old Danish model (Maria Palm) becomes obsessed with a top photographer (Ed Skrein) while trying to hit the big time in Paris.

Director
Mads Matthiesen

Producer
Jonas Bagger

Screenwriter
Mads Matthiesen, Martin Zandvliet, Anders Frithiof August

Distributor
Brainstorm Media

Production Co
Zentropa Entertainments

Genre
Drama

Original Language
Danish

Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 12, 2016, Limited

Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 5, 2016

Runtime
1h 45m
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