Jake Scott, director of “Le Fantome”, the extended cinematic commercial for the Ford Edge starring Mads Mikkelsen, says it’s not an advertisement as much as a “love affair between a human and a car” [assuming, by “car”, he means SUV].
In the eight-minute short film shot in Croatia and directed by Scott, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is an enigmatic stranger known as Le Fantôme. The story centers on a couple who enter a witness protection program after their testimony convicts a crime kingpin. Mikkelsen’s character is sent to find the couple, before the new Ford Edge inadvertently reveals their true identity–and changes the nature of Mikkelsen’s mission.
