I really enjoyed creating a villain in a bit of a different way than you normally would. What was it like creating such a disarmingly feminine villain in the Mother? That is a real old, traditional lullaby which is quite creepy. The only thing that is from old Finnish culture is the lullaby that is sung. No, actually, there wasn’t any Finnish fairy tale or anything that we adapted, it was just the original idea.
So it’s kind of like hiding something or brooding something.ĭid you draw on any regional Finnish lore for the story? In the Finnish language, hatching is “hauto.” It kind of means, like, brooding. Why do you associate hatching with hiding something? So this idea of a mother-daughter relationship came and, a theme of growing up. And I started to think, “OK, if this girl is hatching something, for me it means she’s trying to hide some of her emotions, some sides of her character.” And hatching, there’s a theme of motherhood. So then we basically started to develop the whole story from this one sentence. I just felt that was a very fresh idea, but I really wanted to change the lead character into a girl because I really missed seeing more stories about girls and women in film. We met at a directors and screenwriters speed-meeting event where you pitch ideas, and he said that he had in his mind this one-sentence idea: a boy hatches a doppelgänger out of an egg. It all started with the screenwriter, Ilja Rautsi. He and Bergholm expanded the story to include themes of motherhood, perfectionism, puberty and suppression. That kind of breaks her, in a sense.”Īn official Sundance Film Festival selection, “Hatching” was born out of a nightmare that screenwriter Ilja Rautsi had about an evil twin causing mayhem and leaving him to take the blame. And it seems that because the mother is acting charming, it must be Tinja’s fault and there must be something wrong with her. “She’s trying to act in a loving way, but there’s always something a little bit more that Tinja should do in order to gain the love. “I think what Tinja feels from her mother is that her love is not quite genuine,” Bergholm said. The Finnish body horror, now playing in select theaters and available on VOD May 17, stars newcomer Siiri Solalinna as Tinja, a meek 12-year-old girl who struggles to live up to the high standards set for her by her mother, a mommy vlogger with a hint of coldness lurking beneath her hyperfeminine veneer.
In director Hanna Bergholm’s “Hatching,” a young gymnast, seeking comfort from her domineering and perfectionist mother, nurtures an egg that hatches into a disquieting human-bird hybrid. Warning: This story contains spoilers about IFC Midnight’s “Hatching.” There will be another warning before key plot points are divulged.
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