Nils Malmros

  • Nils Malmros – At kende sandheden AKA Facing the Truth (2002)

    2001-2010DenmarkDramaNils Malmros

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    The boy has suffered a stroke, leaving one entire side of his body paralyzed. Dr. Malmros (Jens Albinus) is one of the best men in the whole of neurosurgery, and his exceptionally steady hands make him a prime candidate to operate on children. Working quickly and efficiently, he injects the boy with a chemical called a contrast medium to help photograph the blood vessels in his brain, locates the injured blood vessel, and ties it off. Yet another life saved. Except that decades later, the same boy will die of liver cancer—caused, ironically enough, by the same radio-emitter chemical used to save his life.Read More »

  • Nils Malmros – Kærestesorger AKA Aching Hearts (2009)

    2001-2010DenmarkDramaNils Malmros

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    A bunch of 15-year-olds in Viborg make their first experiences with love, kissing and sexuality, coming together and drifting apart. The film follows the adolescents over a three-year-period, focusing on the relationship between Jonas and Agnete, which is made difficult by misconceptions, Agnete’s interest for philosophy and Jonas’s friend Toke, her father’s mental illness and Jonas’s own indecision regarding his feelings for her. The story ends when the protagonists finish school.Read More »

  • Nils Malmros – Kærlighedens smerte AKA Pain of Love (1992)

    1991-2000DenmarkDramaNils MalmrosRomance

    In Kærlighedens Smerte (Pain of Love) by the Danish veteran director Nils Malmros we follow the life of a young woman with a childish innocence and great impulsiveness called Kirsten. Kirsten grows up in a middle class home with sympathetic bourgeois parents. We watch Kirsten as she experiences her first innocent relationship with a rather immature boy, as she starts to lust after and date older men, as she experiences failures, as she breaks down mentally, …Read More »

  • Nils Malmros – Drenge AKA Boys (1977)

    1971-1980DenmarkDramaNils Malmros

    Boys (Drenge) is Nils Malmros’ first movie made in collaboration with a professional film crew. Even so, the movie has a very mature feel to it and the feeling of authenticity from Malmros’ earlier film “Lars Ole, 5C” remains. Boys is, together with “Lars Ole, 5C” and “Tree of Knowledge” part of Malmros’ “Ole”-triology.Read More »

  • Nils Malmros – Lars Ole, 5c (1973)

    1971-1980DenmarkDramaNils Malmros

    Synopsis by Clarke Fountain
    In the Danish film Lars Ole, 5c the “5c” refers to the boy Lars’ school class form. The film consists of many little moments from the school life of a young man, including such occasions as a skirmish among the teens for teacherly favors or for attention from a member of the opposite sex. This independently produced film was highly praised in its native Denmark and was an official entry in the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.Read More »

  • Nils Malmros – Skønheden og udyret AKA Beauty and the Beast (1983)

    1981-1990DenmarkDramaNils Malmros

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    When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until he discovers that young Jønne has taken some semi-nude photos of Mette and clearly is intending to go further in their relationship. Suddenly the father starts hanging out with Mette and her friends as they practice winter sports together – and there is hardly anything stranger, or more embarrassing, as far as Mette is concerned. It is clear that father and daughter are heading toward a change in their relationship as both have to adjust to her “growing up.” Read More »

  • Nils Malmros – Kundskabens træ AKA Tree of Knowledge (1981)

    1981-1990DenmarkDramaNils Malmros

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    A modified review by Roger Ebert

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    “The Tree of Knowledge” is the truest and most moving film I have ever seen about the experience of puberty, about the little joys and great heartbreaks of the crucial first years of adolescence. It is also one of this year’s best films on any subject – a creative act of memory about exactly what it was like to be 13 in 1953.

    The movie comes from Denmark, and yet it didn’t feel “foreign” to me. At first I was aware that I was watching a Danish picture, and then the universal insights of the story began to reach me so directly that I was just watching a movie about kids anywhere – it could have been made about an American suburb.Read More »

  • Nils Malmros – Kammesjukjul AKA Pal Christmas (1978)

    1971-1980DenmarkDramaNils MalmrosTV

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    ‘Kammesjukjul’ is a children’s Christmas movie made for television. It is basically a portrayal of the odd (in retrospect) childhood experiences which, at the time they occur, hold some mysterious significance. The movie is set at Christmas time, but the Christmas setting is not really important for the appreciation of the movie.

    The plot:
    Mads is not going to a Christmas tree party this year because his father’s company is way too small for that. Therefore, Mads decides to arrange his own party. He invites some of his friends and his teacher’s grandson for the party. Arranging a party is of course not easy for a young boy; it involves theft, intrigues, lying… Do Mads overcome the difficulties, or will there be no Christmas tree party?Read More »

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