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‘A-Ha – The Movie’ director on why we can thank The Beatles for the film
It sparked his curiosity in music documentaries, and on Friday, one Robsahm directed debuts in theaters.
“A-Ha – The Film” examines the Norwegian synth-pop trio who had the hit “Take On Me” in 1985, together with what was then progressive, that includes the band as each drawings and actual life folks, in what grew to become one of many decade’s best-known music movies.
A-Ha went on to have an extended profession since then, and Robsahm advised CNN he believes they’ve been underestimated for the way good a pop band they’re.
“Perhaps they had been a bit too handsome and had an excessive amount of of a teen picture,” he stated of members lead vocalist Morten Harket, guitarist Paul Waaktaar-Savoy and keyboardist Magne Furuholme. “And likewise it was onerous for them to get the type of recognition that you really want as a severe musician.”
Robsahm stated it was in 2009 when Furuholme attended the premiere of considered one of his movies and complimented Robsahm on the movie’s rating which he had written.
He took the chance to ask about his doing a movie concerning the making of their tenth album.
The one drawback, Robsahm famous, was the band was breaking apart — once more — and there could be no tenth album.
“So then I stated, ‘OK, however name me then if you get again collectively,’ and Furuholme stated that will by no means occur,” Robsahm recounted. “After which after all it did occur 5 years later.”
The trio, who’ve had a tumultuous relationship over time, didn’t name him.
To not be deterred, Robsahm reached out in 2015 and began taking pictures a movie concerning the group, which included their tensions.
“I do know that there’s a profound respect for one another, however for some motive they’ve a tough time type of displaying that to one another,” he defined, not not like the Beatles, who Robsahm contended additionally did not at all times appear to grasp “how good they had been for one another.”
“I feel all three of them assume that they’re an important a part of the band,” he stated of A-Ha. “As an alternative of seeing all three as an entire. Additionally, it is unhappy to see how all three of them are fairly dissatisfied with being within the band and feeling underestimated by the opposite two.”