Impossibly stunning out model Erika Linder stars in Of Monster’s and Men’s new video for “Empire” in what the video’s director Tabitha Denholm is hailing as a tip to the 1971 classic Harold and Maude. Linder plays a beautiful, brooding young woman who enters into a “forbidden relationship” with a quite older woman (Ingmari Lamy) with a wildly youthful spirit.
The result is a pristinely shot study of life and death. Also, Linder does a lot of this:
And this:
Until, finally, she cracks a smile:
Watch the lovely celebration of life here.
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