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Welcome to The Treatment.

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With her newest film, this year's Oscar winning, in a Better World,

Danish director Susanna Beer,

would undoubtedly find bigger audiences for her unique mix of intimacy

and sudden flashes of emotional violence.

A Doggle 95 practitioner, she's moved into using the medium

in fuller and subtler ways.

Susanna, thanks for being here.

Thank you.

Is the actual title heaven?

No, actually it's funny because it reads heaven when you read the Danish title,

but the Danish title is Heelonen, and that means the revenge.

And we had a few titles, and when we finally got to in a better world, it was too late because the revenge had been all over the Danish newspapers.

So we had to stick with that in Denmark.

But I actually prefer in a better world.

You know, the movie does deal with revenge, so it's not an irrelevant title.

It's just the dark version of the same title.

Yes, it really is.

It's the dark version of the same title.

Since you're talking about it, if you can explain what in a better world is about.

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