❉ The feature film debut of director Anna Emma Haudal is a warm-hearted story that could open a summer of love for everyone.
Twenty-something Liv’s life is turned upside down when the chaotic and headstrong Andrea comes crashing into her countryside gardening store. Andrea is everything Liv isn’t, and she’s completely infatuated. As the two women grow closer, their different lifestyles begin to clash, and Liv discovers that relationships, love and family can come in many forms.
Danish Film Award winner, The Venus Effect is a romantic comedy about daring to love yourself and each other which marks the feature film debut of director Anna Emma Haudal. The cast includes Johanne Milland (Glinda in Danish stage production of Wicked), Josephine Park (Netflix’s Babyfever), Sofie Gråbøl (TV’s Prisoner, The Killing), and Lars Mikkelsen (Netflix series The Witcher, The Kingdom). A warm-hearted story that could open a summer of love for everyone.
Director Anna Emma Haudal is one of the most prominent voices of her generation among Danish filmmakers. A graduate of the National Film School of Denmark in 2015, she is best known for the acclaimed TV series Doggystyle, which she both wrote and directed. The series earned her a Robert Award for Best Short TV Series from the Danish Film Academy. With The Venus Effect, Haudal sets out to create a film that is unapologetically feminine at its core – a direct counterpoint to the masculine narratives that, according to her, dominate the media landscape and shape our collective experience. As someone who has dated both men and women, Haudal views gender not as a defining trait, but as secondary to the person as aa whole. She hopes this perspective shines through in The Venus Effect, and that audiences can connect with the film on that basis.
“The Venus Effect is a romantic comedy about daring to lovey yourself and each other. I am truly engaged in the human need to define ourselves through community and in how we often end up hurting each other despite the love and care we feel. It’s important to me that the audience cheers on love although love is tough, complicated and full of misunderstandings. I would like to remind the audience that love is irrational. That it is living and changeable, like nature, like us. The Venus Effect is a heart-warming story in a way that makes the audience leave the cinema wanting to love one another and themselves”.
– Anna Emma Haudal
THE VENUS EFFECT is available on streaming services from 2 June.
❉ THE VENUS EFFECT (Venuseffekten). Directed by Anna Emma Haudal. Starring Johanne Milland, Josephine Park, Sofie Gråbøl, Lars Mikkelsen (104 mins/ Denmark) Danish with English subtitles. Released 2 June 2025. Available on the following streaming and digital platforms: Peccadillo film, Amazon.
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