Kill Your Darlings
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Directed byBjörne Larson
Written byBjörne Larson
StarringLolita Davidovich
Andreas Wilson
Fares Fares
Alexander Skarsgård
Julie Benz
John Larroquette
Greg Germann
Benito Martinez
Release date
  • 12 April 2006 (2006-04-12)[1]
Running time
94 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

Kill Your Darlings is a 2006 film directed by Björne Larson and written by Björne Larson and Johan Sandström. In an interview with Svenska Dagbladet, Larson said that the film is based on a real event in his life when he met a seemingly nice man at an internet cafe in Los Angeles who ended up leaving Larson bound and restrained in a desert.[2] The film features a cast of many of the most popular contemporary Swedish actors (Fares Fares, father and son Stellan and Alexander Skarsgård, and Andreas Wilson from Oscar-nominated Evil), some less famous U.S. actors, Julie Benz and Greg Germann, and Canadian Lolita Davidovich.

The title seems to be a reference to the popular advice for writers, "Murder your darlings", commonly misattributed but written by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.[3]

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References

  1. ^ @SkarsJoy (April 12, 2020). "Today is the anniversary of the release of Björne Larson's KILL YOUR DARLINGS (April 12, 2006). Alexander Skarsgård…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ Stefan Malmovist (2006-04-11). "Handlar filmen om ditt liv?" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2007-03-11.
  3. ^ Forrest Wickman (2013-10-18). "Who Really Said You Should "Kill Your Darlings"?". Browbeat (Slate). Retrieved 2016-03-23.

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