The Model

The Model (2016) is a Danish psychological drama directed by Mads Matthiesen — watch it online on iFILM. Emma, a young woman from a small Danish town, lands a spot at a top Paris agency and goes without hesitation.

In Paris she meets photographer Shane White. Ed Skrein plays him with a controlled, unreadable kind of appeal. The relationship moves fast and turns suffocating before Emma gets her bearings. Maria Palm carries almost every scene without dialogue; the camera rarely leaves her face. Matthiesen, who made the spare Danish film Teddy Bear (2012), brings the same quiet precision here — a film about how the fashion world mistakes a person's longing for an asset. Stream The Model (2016) online on iFILM.