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June 25, 2005
Wasn't that a line from The Conversation?: Harvey's new guy asks
Derailed director Mikael Håfström gets a neat intro in the Guardian, plus a chance to extol The Conversation: "At a corner table in a busy London bar, cradling a strong black coffee and blinking in the light like a mole just emerged from the undergrowth, sits Harvey Weinstein's new favourite director. You may not know his name—nor does anyone in the room appear to recognise his amiable, bearded face—but if the cigar-chomping founder of Miramax has his way, Mikael Håfström will soon become the most famous Swedish director since Ingmar Bergman." ... When he started out as a writer and director of cop dramas for Swedish television in the early 1990s he would "steal loads of stuff" from Coppola's leanly compelling dialogue. "I could always identify a real cinephile," he admits with a guilty gulp of coffee, "when he would come up to me after seeing my show and say 'Wasn't that a line from The Conversation?' "
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