As well as an unusual length, Ginevra has a singular tempo and a consciously non-linear story. The films is born by Amanda Ooms (protagonist in the new film by Theo van Gogh, Vals Licht, which will also be screened in Rotterdam) playing an actress who is the contemporary personification of the mythical queen Guinevere (Ginevra).A film crew by the seaside makes several shots of actresses dressed in romantic costumes. One of them is Ginevra, torn between the two worlds of Arthur and Lancelot; in her modern guise, she is the actress Cecilia Linné and also facing a deep personal crisis. The modern Lancelot is the French doctor Luc, the contemporary Arthur is a German painter. The woman eventually turns her back on everything, both worlds and her past, and loses herself in a sequence of random events and encounters. An attempt to combat fear with fear. As a road movie, the film shows her journey from north to south, from her departure from the set film on a beach in Northern Germany via Hamburg and Paris to the South of France and the Pyrenees. The journey is an escape from her work and love, a flight into a free and lonely existence.The German painter in Ginevra, who has much in common with Vincent van Gogh, is played by Gerhard Theuring, with whom Engström has made several films, including Fluchtweg nach Marseille.
