Mother, Couch Interview: Director Niclas Larsson
10Starring Ewan McGregor and The Exorcist’s Ellen Burstyn, Mother, Couch marks writer-director Niclas Larsson’s debut feature film, which premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. While there promoting the film, Larsson stopped by Collider’s studio at the Cinema Center by MARBL to speak with Editor-in-chief Steve Weintraub about this unexpected journey with an unbelievable cast.
Couch, Mother is a surreal dramedy on the anxieties of balancing day-to-day responsibilities with family obligations. McGregor serves as the lead, David, a son who runs an errand with his mother (Burstyn) to a furniture store. While there, David’s mother inexplicably camps herself out on a couch and refuses to budge while David’s prior afternoon engagements begin to weigh on him. When his siblings, Gruffuld (Rhys Ifans) and Linda (Lara Flynn Boyle), prove to be less than helpful, David must take a breath and try to make sense of this bizarre behavior with the help of the furniture store father-and-daughter duo, played by F. Murray Abraham (The Grand Budapest Hotel) and rising star Taylor Russell (Bones and All).
During their one-on-one, Larsson discusses the early 2000s films that inspired the magical realism of his directorial debut and the impressive short films starring Academy Award-winner Alicia Vikander and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour that paved the way to his TIFF premiere. Larsson explains the method behind writing an entire book explaining Mother, Couch to his crew, and why his starry cast was kept in the dark, how he managed to get McGregor, Burstyn, and more in his first film, and what’s up next for the filmmaker.
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