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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 »
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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 Thorsen -
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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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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Gabriel Axel – Babettes gæstebud AKA Babette’s Feast (1987)
1981-1990DenmarkDramaGabriel AxelIn 19th century Denmark, two adult sisters live in an isolated village with their father, who is the honored pastor of a small Protestant church that is almost a sect unto itself. Although they each are presented with a real opportunity to leave the village, the sisters choose to stay with their father, to serve to him and their church. After some years, a French woman refugee, Babette, arrives at their door, begs them to take her in, and commits herself to work for them as maid/housekeeper/cook. Sometime after their father dies, the sisters decide to hold a dinner to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth. Babette experiences unexpected good fortune and implores the sisters to allow her to take charge of the preparation of the meal.Read More »
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Niels Arden Oplev – To verdener AKA Worlds Apart (2008)
2001-2010DenmarkDramaNiels Arden OplevSara, the daughter of a Jehovah’s Witness, is forced to choose between religion and love when she falls for someone outside her faith.
This film is based on a true story. It is one of the finest films I have seen on the Jehovah’s Witnesses and social control. In the last scene, the girl in the train who looks up and smiles at Sara is the “real life-Sara”. The director got the inspiration for the film from reading her story in a national Danish newspaper in 2006.Read More »
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Kristian Håskjold – Crocodile Tears (2020)
2011-2020ComedyDenmarkKristian HåskjoldShort FilmAfter 20 years of no contact, the Norwegian Dancer Øyvind is invited to Denmark to visit his old father and his new girlfriend in their isolated farmhouse, but nothing turns out as Øyvind expects.Read More »
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Max Kestner – Drømme i København AKA Dreams in Copenhagen (2009)
2001-2010DenmarkDocumentaryMax KestnerDreams in Copenhagen is director Max Kestner’s documentary film portrait of Denmark’s capital. COPENHAGEN DREAMS is a film about the physical surroundings that are part of shaping our lives. About the buildings we wake up in, the front doors we walk out of, the streets we traverse. It is also a film about how the way we live our lives affects our physical surroundings. About the places we dream of and the walls onto which we scratch the names of our loved ones, before it’s too late.Read More »
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Astrid Henning-Jensen – Kranes konditori AKA Krane’s Bakery Shop (1951)
1951-1960Astrid Henning-JensenDenmarkDramaQuote:
In a small Norwegian coastal town Katinka Stordal supports her children as a seamstress. Her life is one of poverty, loneliness and constant complaints from her customers. One day she meets a Swedish sailor at the local café who helps her find the strength to break free from her daily routine. But her children, ex-husband and neighbors has no tolerance for this kind of untraditional friendship.Read More »