Television documentary on Marie is still untitled
Written by Judith on October 18, 2004 to Marie Fredriksson.
STOCKHOLM (UPDATED) - 
Swedish production company Titan Television has yet to come up with a final name for their forthcoming television documentary about Marie Fredriksson, and her fight against cancer.
“This one-hour documentary is a detailed portrait of one of our [Sweden’s] biggest artists,” states Titan on their website, where the working title “The Look” had been on display since Friday. This, however, will definitely not be actual name given to the program once it is ready for broadcast.
“They put up a test page that wasn’t supposed to appear until today – but without a title – as it was never intended that [the program] would be called “The Look,” explains their publicist to The Daily Roxette. “The documentary is still untitled… simply ’Marie Fredriksson’ at the moment.”
Titan’s site says “this is the story about when life suddenly and alarmingly changes… and about the meaning of music and songs in order to come back.”
The documentary – like music on the album itself – is expected to depict not only the pain and suffering she has endured the past two years, but also Marie’s energy, lust for life and fighting spirit.
Industry sources tell TDR that Titan is attempting to sell the documentary to television channels in other countries where Roxette – and thereby Marie Fredriksson – are well known. This is in line with Capitol Record’s own efforts to make the album available in as many countries as possible.
The program will first be shown on Sweden’s TV4 on November 24 at 21:00 CET.
Lars-Erik Olson contributed to this article
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54 comments
ally77 said on October 16, 2004 21:06:
Well all the UKers could bombard info@titan.se and beg them to tell us what channels they are approching, and then contact the channels begging for it to be bought and shown... but somehow I don’t think it will reach the UK... :(
Rox-Van said on October 16, 2004 21:32:
that good news and pix, I like his name, I hope it is possible to see in sudamerica :-)
rox-kuryliw said on October 16, 2004 21:50:
awwww sounds good a doc (like the pic), i like the name ’listern to your heart’ better than ’the look’ but doesnt matter to me that much.
Grasi said on October 16, 2004 21:56:
Thanks Judith for this translation... loved the pic :)
Hope the petition works out and we´ll have it with subtitles...
gyllene_tjej said on October 16, 2004 22:01:
Mmmm....lovely, what a fabulous way to survive the gloominess of autumn! At the same time i believe we’ll shed quite some teras watching it too...*sigh*. The title doesn’t appeal to me, hopefully it is just a working one? GO MARIE!!!
jobarth said on October 16, 2004 22:56:
Nice news!
The picture fits to her new song “A table in the sun”, I hope the song is so wonderful as the picture.
AURYTE said on October 17, 2004 09:25:
Good news!!! The name THE LOOK suggests that it should be with at least English subtitles if there is DVD.
I love this pix. Is it something from the documentary?
How many people have signed the petition???
on_a_mission said on October 17, 2004 10:36:
well, regardless of subtitles its been raining in skåne for about 11 straight hours. Apparently this keeps up all autumn. Lets hope that there are cheerful parts in the documentary.
bradhdyd said on October 17, 2004 12:01:
Im in Oz and I truely hope we get it down here. For the documentary to be a successful worldwide release, it will need more than just english subtitles - i think the whole documentary should be in english - especially if other countries are to pick it up.
Well heres hoping! Can’t wait for the album.
joyrider said on October 17, 2004 12:04:
the title THE LOOK doesn’t make that much sense to me ... i’d prefere a tilte like > NO JOYRIDE
Sparvogamarie said on October 17, 2004 14:12:
I think if it’s being shown in other countries then of course it will be in English or have subtitles...it would be a little bit stupid to have Swedish with no subtitles in other countries! So the petition is probably unnecessary!
ncurran said on October 17, 2004 14:18:
the documentary is definitely in swedish...i got an email from emi confirming that. Yes it would be great if one of the english speaking countries in the world showed the documentary with english subtitles, but does anyone realistically think that is going to happen? Those of you in Continental europe might have more luck...your channels might not have such a strong aversion to showing a programme in a foreign language, with subtitles in german, etc. If they truely intended for this to be sold to other countries though, i cant understand why it was filmed in swedish. I think we should keep signing the petition in the meantime.
coyboyusa said on October 17, 2004 14:39:
am I the only one annoyed that emi feels its necessary to attack maries work to roxette? i really am looking forward to seeing the documentary at some point, it would be great if they made a speical edition of the album with the documentary included
Lars-Erik_Olson (moderator) said on October 17, 2004 15:21:
Assuming you (Coyboy) meant “attach” and not “attack” ... then I for one am not upset at all that Titan, EMI, or anyone else would, in an attempt to remind people who Marie Fredriksson is, refer to her work with Roxette. It’s completely logical.
Judith (moderator) said on October 17, 2004 15:41:
in Spain and/or Germany they don’t normally add subtitles, they sync the whole thing.. which is HELL of annoying.. :S
ncurran said on October 17, 2004 16:44:
well judith, in the UK they wouldnt even do that....its extremely rare for them to show anything that wasnt originally made in the english language...i know thats not right, but thats the way it is.
alchemiste said on October 17, 2004 16:45:
I’m pretty damn sure there will be a DVD with this documentary ... There are loads of Marie videos that haven’t been released on DVD, that would make a nice package ...
sweepi said on October 17, 2004 16:53:
Well, not that the choice is in our hands, (furthermore looks like it’s been made already), but, indeed “The Look” doesn’t seem like a title matching all that much with this documentary, does it?... My feeling anyway... All in all, why not to simply have called it “The Change”, after the album? Or better yet, “Second Chance”, such a title as the single’s sounds like suiting it perfectly, or?... Oh well, again, just my feeling... In the end, all I hope for the most is that the documentary may reach to some channel in Portugal as well! :) *fingers crossed* Then, and as for the eventual release (HOPEFULLY!) of this documentary in some form, well, I keep my wish from before: assuming that releasing the documentary as a bonus DVD to the album must not be that much of a possibility (considering both dates for the album release and the documentary broadcast), well, if not releasing it as an individual DVD following to the broadcast (which would for us be probably THE dream option), then perhaps it could at least make it as a bonus DVD to the upcoming single (assuming there is to be one) off “The Change”?... Sort of a “fans edition” thing (alongside with the regular edition of the single as obvious)?...
Sparvogamarie said on October 17, 2004 17:18:
Hmmm that’s a good point Sweepi - “The Change” would be a much better title! I can understand why they want to connect the documentary to Roxette because people outside of Sweden may not know her name, but I think the title does not fit very well at all!!
sweepi said on October 17, 2004 18:15:
Then again, and if the idea is definitely to link the title of this documentary (and therefore Marie) with Roxette, which, as LEO says, is a completely logical strategy after all, well then, joyrider’s idea for instance, “No Joyride”, that would fit quite nice even, I think, quite nice indeed... Though, still, still I think I’d rather go for linking it to Marie’s new work, particularly to “2:nd Chance” I guess, as as by listening to this song, I suppose this will be the very same feeling we will get, by watching this documentary: sometimes you are fortunate to be given a second chance, and thank God for it. Thank God. But, as I say, and back to the title, this isn’t a choice of ours anyway, and then, it’s made already, so... It’s just a detail in the end anyway... All I wish is that I’ll be able to watch it! :) *still crossing fingers*
lonely_girl said on October 17, 2004 19:00:
Great to hear that they try to sell it to other TV channels, so maybe non-Swedes get the chance to see it too! ;-D
naturalborn-roxer said on October 17, 2004 20:50:
please if it will be show with english subtitles one day please please please put it on rox bytes
patolucas said on October 17, 2004 23:21:
I love the PIC!!!I can’t wait to watch the documentary!
Fernanda-Brasil said on October 18, 2004 01:04:
Hope they could release this documentary in Brazil. It would be fantastic :D
Mari said on October 18, 2004 05:57:
Also Finnish will see The Look via digital tv. Maybe i should buy digital box for my tv...Well it costs about 160€, but I want to see so much this documentary.
RobS said on October 18, 2004 07:43:
although i would love to see this doco, i’m not holding my breath that it’ll be shown down here in australia. I just don’t see any of the channels here picking it up :-(
Sparvogamarie said on October 18, 2004 12:53:
RobS: definitely wouldn’t hold my breath about Australia. We didn’t even get all the singles off the last albums, so the documentary seems unlikely...unless SBS pick it up???
I think we need a new petition asking for the documentary to be released on video or DVD! I’m in Sweden so I’ll see it, but of course I won’t get subtitles and my Swedish is blaaah! I’m gonna be sitting there with a Swedish/English dictionary lol. There’s so many people who won’t get a chance to see this doco at all unless they can buy a DVD, so I would LOVE them to release it officially. Like some ppl have said, it would make a GREAT bonus disc with the album.
ncurran said on October 16, 2004 20:44:
remember to sign the petition...
http://www.petitiononline.com/mfdoc/petition.html
I wonder if we can persuade some obscure channel to show it in the UK???
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