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Commercial for EF International Language Centers.

Directed by Gustav Johansson (gustavjohansson.com)

D.P: Niklas Johansson, fsf (niklasjohansson.com)
Typography: Albin Holmqvist (albinholmqvist.com)
Music: Magnus Lidehäll (twitter.com/magnusthemagnus)

Produced at Camp David (campdavidfilm.com)

Client: EF International Language Centers
Campaign site: ef.com/livethelanguage

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  • Matthew Buchanan plus 1 year ago
    Lovely type choices on all these, bravo.
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  • Steven Cheak plus 1 year ago
    evidence a simple brief can be made beautiful.... thank you
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  • Julien-Pierre plus 1 year ago
    Love it!
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  • Albin Holmqvist 1 year ago
    Thanks guys for your nice comments! I recommend checking Gustav's (The director) vimeo page, some insane stuff there!
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  • KAZ PR✪D. 1 year ago
    Amazing ! love the fonts work...
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  • Sam Morrill staff 1 year ago
    Love this series. So well done.
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  • Jus Medic plus 1 year ago
    Love the series.... I really like all the movies a lot!
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  • Absolutely love these! How do you get that film burning look?
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  • rob 1 year ago
    very nice
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  • Michael McDaniel 1 year ago
    Nice video - very Digital Kitchen in style. The music is weak. I think the bass line is awesome, but then it falls apart after the intro. Overall super nice though.
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  • annaescurriola 1 year ago
    great job! I love it!
    why can't play the video of Barcelona? I want to watch it, i'm from there ;)
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  • katrine busevica 1 year ago
    cool idea!
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  • Geoffroy Dubreuil plus 1 year ago
    Amazing, really pleasant to watch.
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  • Karwin 1 year ago
    :) Amazing!
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  • Que bonito!!!
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  • Albin Bousquet 1 year ago
    Bravo! vive la typo et la poesie des images.
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  • Sebastian Kubatz 1 year ago
    that was beautiful
    lovely images, nice lighting and really good typography
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  • Frederic Vercammen plus 1 year ago
    Lovely,
    great sense of film making !
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  • Harriet Macdonald 1 year ago
    ooh la la ;) sign me up :))
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  • El fantastico mundo de capturar los detalles. Grandioso!!!
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  • Lindsey T 1 year ago
    Wow, excellent way to capture the study-abroad experience!
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  • Jeffrey Lermyte 1 year ago
    i really really love it! AMZING!
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  • Guys! The series is just so cute! Thanx for the ride! ^^
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  • Beekeeper plus 1 year ago
    Sweet!
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  • Marija Popovic 1 year ago
    <3
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  • Nevena Nikolcheva 1 year ago
    enchanting ... great job !
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  • Meg G. 1 year ago
    Very well done. This makes me wish I did EF when I was 16! Here I am living in Paris now though. Love the videos.....!
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  • Jean-Louis Mainguy 1 year ago
    This is a really beautiful and wonderful video, the concept is simple and really interesting.

    By the way, I'm not sure if it's meant to be, but : Droite refers to Right and Gauche refers to Left. I know the girl turns left when it says "gauche", but the arrow indicates right. Can be confusing.

    I had a look at the other EF videos too, amazing stuff.
  • Jesse 11 months ago
    yeah the left, right thing had me confused too :)
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  • Carlos R. Dueñas 1 year ago
    Excelente, muy buen trabajo!
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  • Tomas Sironi 1 year ago
    Incredible, I love this video as much as the others! You should come to Argentina somewhen!
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  • Raul Cabrera 1 year ago
    awesome video, history, edition, everything..
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  • Marjorye 1 year ago
    my favorite! hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts hearts
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  • melania 1 year ago
    A really beautiful way to use typography, combined with the art of the video, edition, music and the story that is shown. Congrats!!! ;)
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  • Jaime Zaragoza 1 year ago
    WOW this is amazing :D It brought me back such amazing memories and to my surprise, I was actually there when they were shooting the scene on the "café" :D
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  • Olivier Ronot plus 1 year ago
    one of the most perfect movie on vimeo!!!
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  • Tim Keeling plus 1 year ago
    Really great work, nice job
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  • Gabe Casalett 1 year ago
    This is great, I love it!
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  • Ale Caso 1 year ago
    Nice photography. Awesome use of types. Lovely work boys. Congrats from Argentina.
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  • Laurens Neels 1 year ago
    This is so cool!
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  • Kenzo 1 year ago
    This is awesome! But I thought at the end you would write... "l'amour" !! Man, it's Paris!!! That's how you might have finished the video!! ;)
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  • Charles Huette plus 1 year ago
    This series is so, so, so good.
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  • ahmicro 1 year ago
    Awesome, love typography and photography
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  • Sarah Hibner 1 year ago
    Such beautiful typography!
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  • Carito 1 year ago
    I fall in love !
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  • Matt Wright 1 year ago
    incredible photography, great music - and spot on perfect typography!
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  • Thrillpill Films plus 1 year ago
    Hello! I just discovered these amazing videos and it inspired me to create a new series on my blog.

    Bravo, this is a phenomenally well done job.

    onesmallwindow.com/2011/02/10/i-want-to-cry-episode-01/
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  • StevenBrisson 1 year ago
    Cinematic, expressive and artful. Brilliant series.
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  • Nate Daubert 1 year ago
    one of the most beautiful videos i've seen in a while. i was an exchange student and it makes me wanna go on another year abroad.
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  • this is so beautiful, i almost cried in the end..
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  • Andre Pires 1 year ago
    Congrats mate! These videos (EF series) are just AMAZING!
    What about making some in Australia, Japan and also Brasil!

    See ya!
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  • Eric Tadros 1 year ago
    Paris je t'aime !
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  • Romina 1 year ago
    wow.
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  • Bianca Catbagan 1 year ago
    excellent work!! i love the concept and execution.
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  • iamjessu 1 year ago
    Pero que guapas amigas, en todos los videos de "live the language" :D

    Excelentes trabajos!
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  • soo 1 year ago
    Beautiful project Albin! I can watch it everyday.
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  • Teddy Hang Vu 1 year ago
    so nice <3
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  • Danni Niebling 1 year ago
    Has Albin Holmqvist made the typography specially for this or did he use existing types? I would love a list or a link to a place to buy them.
  • Albin Holmqvist 1 year ago
    Hey Danni! I have not created the fonts. Most of them are from the following type foundries; Hoefler & Frere Jones, House Industries and Sudtipos.
  • Danni Niebling 11 months ago
    Thanks for the reply! And great job!
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  • Albin Holmqvist 1 year ago
    Thank you again for all your lovely comments! We are making more videos, more on that later!
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  • Olga 1 year ago
    All what can I say about this video - it is really great work! Bravo!Bravo!
    Can someone tell me names of this two actors?
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  • Firefly 1 year ago
    Délicieux ! Très beau travail d'image !
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  • Jordan Taylor 1 year ago
    beautiful
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  • Crave Los Angeles 1 year ago
    so good.
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  • Randy D. Rosario 1 year ago
    so amazing. the series of vids brings back memories of my trip to europe... what an adventure!!!! BAHH i must go back!!!
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  • Khanoff Production 1 year ago
    Perfectly work! Only positive emotions!
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  • Victor Ruiz plus 1 year ago
    Great Videos! Love this one!
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  • Marco Aslan 1 year ago
    Very inspiring.
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  • Diego Muñoz P. 1 year ago
    Realmente impresionante, un orgasmo tipográfico
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  • Helge Thomas plus 1 year ago
    simply amazing! i would have given a lot more hearts if possible. really love it! look, typography, music, story... everything is perfect. even more. everything is in perfect harmony.
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  • aaryn belfer 1 year ago
    what a brilliant little gift! it makes me so anxious to get back there. thank you. thank you. thank you.
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  • Olivier Rensonnet 1 year ago
    très belle réalisation ... typo en parfaite symbiose ... respect ... :))
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  • brittany b reiff 11 months ago
    beautiful! this makes wish to visit again soon.
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  • Oyphis 11 months ago
    And Oporto?!!
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  • Michael Triana plus 11 months ago
    Fantastic!!!! Well done!!! Bravo, bravo!!!!
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  • Tammy 11 months ago
    To Albin and everyone who worked on the project,

    I watched all four of the videos with great interest and found I responded most strongly to Beijing and this one.

    In the Beijing short, you underscore so well this sense of otherness between the very charming young man and this new world he is totally dialing into. Plus those beautifully lit faces are character studies unto themselves.

    I found the Paris piece seemed to have such a tight storyline and progression, with the smallest gestures tying in so perfectly. I also really enjoyed that the Paris you portrayed is very multi-culti, as Paris is, as opposed to the "Amelie" world cinema-goers got.

    Oh and round of applause to Magnus, whose music perfectly captures the thrilling energy, and carries us along with it!
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  • Francisco Andriani 11 months ago
    the photography and type work of this video just left me speechless!!
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  • Francisco Andriani 11 months ago
    aaa eres español! increíble trabajo!!
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  • Yun Creative Labs 11 months ago
    favourite! no doubt!
    lovely photography and type and you caught on video lovely situations!
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  • Ryan Shelley plus 11 months ago
    this is just great!
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  • Federica Calizzano 11 months ago
    A masterpiece!
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  • ssnchz 11 months ago
    Increible!!
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  • Jeffrey Lermyte 11 months ago
    that's really awesome! <3
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  • Piotr Grędowski 11 months ago
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  • blackstar 11 months ago
    Really nice. Congrats!
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  • luciam 11 months ago
    I love it!:)
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  • Laura Serra 11 months ago
    love it! wonderful!
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  • tres tres cool, ça va plaire aux ricains ça ;)..ça a déjà plu meme je crois vu le compteur héhé.
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  • perezramerstorfer 10 months ago
    great videos!
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  • Oleg Samoilov 10 months ago
    very nice
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  • Nicole Tan 10 months ago
    I absolutely love these videos! such great use of type and simplistic but effective concept :) really really nicely executed!
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  • Jérémy Barniaud 10 months ago
    Really nice work !!!
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  • Jinmin Woo 10 months ago
    Love it!
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  • Stephen Coles 10 months ago
    Today we covered the typography of this fine film here: fontsinuse.com/live-the-language-paris/
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  • M Haidar Hanif 10 months ago
    The best choose for typography!
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  • Venus Loi 10 months ago
    I was attracted by the fancy typography in the first sight, and that's what links me here ♥
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  • Ysmny 10 months ago
    Felicitation
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  • Fred Carvalho 10 months ago
    M Haidar H
    "The best choose for typography!"

    Perfect!
    ; )

    F.
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