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Markus, who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems like an accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.Read More »
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Anders Thomas Jensen – Retfærdighedens ryttere AKA Riders of Justice (2020)
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Jens Jørgen Thorsen – Stille dage i Clichy AKA Quiet Days in Clichy (1970)
1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtArthouseDenmarkEroticaJens Jørgen ThorsenQuote:
Joey is a struggling writer with no money. His roommate Carl is a womanizer with a taste for young girls. Together, these insatiable dreamers will laugh, love and screw their way through a decadent Paris paved with wanton women, wild orgies and outrageous erotic adventures. Based upon the long-banned novel by Henry Miller, Quiet Days in Clichy is considered to be the most daring film adaptation ever of one of the most controversial authors in history.Read More » -
August Blom – Ekspeditricen AKA In the Prime of Life (1911)
1911-1920August BlomDenmarkDramaScandinavian Silent CinemaSilentYay! Another Danish silent melodrama. Actually, this is a particularly superior example. The Danish Film Institute’s website, from which this copy comes, descrbes it thusly:
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A wealthy young man, Edgar, sees a shopgirl, Ellen, and is immediately attracted to her. He buys her flowers. They meet next Sunday and, presumably, often thereafter. Three months later Ellen is pregnant. The couple decide to marry, and Edgar tells his mother. His father convinces him not to marry Ellen and sends him away to visit friends in the country. The daughter of the family he visits, Lily, gets him to write to Ellen when she finds out about her. Edgar’s fahter, however, has convinced Ellen’s former employer, to whom the letters have been sent, to turn them over to him. When Edgar gets no reply from Ellen, he secretly returns to the city. Read More » -
Jonas Kærup Hjort – Den Næstsidste AKA The Penultimate (2020)
2011-2020ArthouseDenmarkDramaJonas Kærup HjortA Kafkaesque tale of an insignificant Water Inspector who arrives at a giant remote building in order to register the residents’ water meters. Before he knows of it, he finds himself trapped inside the building facing an impenetrable maze of obstacles. In his attempt to escape, perception of reality, the rational, and the remnants of his human existence is turned upside down.Read More »
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Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt – Weekend (1962)
Drama1961-1970ArthouseDenmarkPalle Kjærulff-SchmidtThree dissatisfied and dysfunctional couples in their thirties spend a weekend together in a summer cottage. A drunkard called Lars is brought along by one of the couples. At the cottage Lars provokes the others and urges them to try something new. They then go on a binge, fuck, provoke various authority figures, and wrestle with the consequences and implications of their new-found liberty. Their libertine games continue until their dark inner human core is released.Read More »
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Jannik Hastrup – Drengen der ville gøre det umulige aka The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear (2002)
2001-2010AnimationDenmarkJannik HastrupIMDB:When a boy child is stolen by bears who raise him as their own, his human parents hunt the bears in despair, and the boy is faced with the dilemma of who and what he is.Read More »
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Sven Methling – Pigen og pressefotografen AKA The Girl and the Press Photographer (1963)
1961-1970ComedyDenmarkSven MethlingA male photographer and a female reporter meet at the newspaper they work for in Copenhagen and become friends. She helps him get an apartment with a marriage of convenience – or so he thinks.Read More »
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Lars von Trier – Forbrydelsens element AKA The Element of Crime (1984)
1981-1990CrimeDenmarkDramaLars Von TrierFisher, an ex-cop, returns to his old beat somewhere in northern Europe after a thirteen-year hiatus in Cairo. His former mentor and role model, author of a treatise called “The Element of Crime”, asks him to solve a series of murders involving lottery ticket sellers. Guided by the theories put forth in the book, Fischer retraces the steps of a suspect, Harry Grey, as recorded in a three-year-old police surveillance report.Read More »
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Lars von Trier – Dogville [+ Commentary] (2003)
2001-2010CrimeDenmarkDramaLars Von TrierA woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.Read More »