Danish

  • Per Fly – Bænken AKA The Bench (2000)

    1991-2000DenmarkDramaPer Fly
    Bænken (The Bench) (2000)
    Bænken (The Bench) (2000)

    Quote:
    Bænken (The Bench), dir. by Per Fly. tells the tale of Kaj, a stubborn and proud alcoholic who has squandered away most of his life in devotion to the bottle. When his estranged daughter moves, by coincidence, into the same public housing project as him, he gets a second chance. A sympathetic, witty, and moving drama about responsibility and family ties, à la Ken Loach and Mike Leigh.Read More »

  • Søren Kragh-Jacobsen – Mifunes sidste sang aka Mifune’s Last Song (1999)

    Søren Kragh-Jacobsen1991-2000ComedyDenmarkDogma FilmsDrama
    Mifunes Sidste Sang (1999)
    Mifunes Sidste Sang (1999)

    Kresten’s dad dies and he returns to the farm on Lolland to take care of things incl. his retarded brother. He employs a hooker as maid. He loses wife and job due to lies. The maid’s kid brother moves in and they’re a family of 4.

    DOGME 95 #3Read More »

  • Ole Christian Madsen – Kærlighedshistorie AKA Kira’s Reason: A Love Story (2001)

    Ole Christian Madsen2001-2010DenmarkDogma FilmsDramaRomance
    Kira's Reason: A Love Story (2001)
    Kira’s Reason: A Love Story (2001)

    En Kærlighedshistorie AKA Dogme # 21

    REVIEW by Scott Tobias (from avclub.com):
    The 21st film to receive official Dogme certification, and one of the few unharmed by its minimalist limitations, Ole Christian Madsen’s powerful Kira’s Reason: A Love Story could be the undercard to A Woman Under The Influence, John Cassavetes’ seminal study of a marriage and mental illness. Beginning with a wife’s return home after time in a psychiatric ward, both films gain their tension from the strained attempt to return to normalcy after everything has irrevocably changed, a transitional phase made all the more painful by brief flashes of the couple’s old dynamic. Though Madsen’s middle-class heroes have little in common with Cassavetes’ more combative blue-collar counterparts, their reunion is similarly raw, painful, and unexpectedly romantic, as they try to redefine their relationship around a new set of terms. Looking and acting uncannily like a young Genevieve Bujold, Stine Stengade gives a touchingly unhinged performance as the title character, a madwoman who tries to find her footing as a wife and mother after being committed for an unspecified condition.Read More »

  • Henrik Ruben Genz – Frygtelig lykkelig AKA Terribly Happy (2008)

    Henrik Ruben Genz2001-2010DenmarkDrama
    Frygtelig lykkelig (2008)
    Frygtelig lykkelig (2008)

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    Robert has a number of skeletons in his cupboard, which he is determined to bury. Although hardly his dream job, Robert sees the position of temporary village constable as a necessary stage on the road to rehabilitation. He just needs to do well and generally behave by the book. However, village life and the macabre provincial order turn out to be difficult to fit into Robert’s plans. Nothing is ever straightforward, and certainly not when you are way out in the countryside.Read More »

  • Frelle Petersen – Onkel AKA Uncle (2019)

    Frelle Petersen2011-2020DenmarkDrama

    Kris, living with her uncle since her teenage years, is starting to second guess her current life, at her disabled uncles farm. As love crosses her path, a possible life changing question emerges.

    8 wins & 8 nominations.
    Tokyo Grand Prix – Tokyo International Film Festival 2019Read More »

  • Alice O’Fredericks – Far til fire og ulveungerne (1958)

    Alice O'Fredericks1951-1960ComedyDenmark
    Far til fire og ulveungerne (1958)
    Far til fire og ulveungerne (1958)

    Little Per has become a boy scout. As a boy scout he has to help other people in need, but things take a turn for the worse and Little Per goes missing. Now it is up to the family to find him…Read More »

  • Susanne Bier – Hævnen AKA In a Better World (2010)

    Susanne Bier2001-2010DenmarkDramaRomance
    Hævnen (2010)
    Hævnen (2010)

    The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.Read More »

  • Per Kirkeby & Jørgen Leth – Dyrehaven: Den romantiske skov AKA The Deer Garden: The Romantic Forest (1970)

    1961-1970DenmarkDocumentaryJørgen LethPer KirkebyShort Film

    Quote:
    This film about the Deer Garden, a forest park north of Copenhagen, was an assignment to celebrate the Deer Garden’s 300th anniversary. Leth and the painter Per Kirkeby above all wanted to do an attractive film about life in the forest orchestrated around the four seasons. The photography is heavily inspired by the Danish Golden Age painters’ view of nature. Kirkeby, Leth and DP Henning Camre worked on and off for a full year to find the ideal light and the optimum framing, seeking out the truly beautiful. As Leth puts it, “there was complete…golden-section control of the whole film. “The narrative holds tiny traces of romantic-poetry notions of mystical and mythical forest life: a nude woman appears among the tree trunks and vanishes again like a fairy girl on a summer night. Read More »

  • Isabella Eklöf – Holiday (2018)

    2011-2020DenmarkDramaIsabella EklöfThriller

    Quote:
    The white sand sparkles in the hot sun beside the clear blue waters of the Turkish Riviera. Young, blonde, clad in light summer garb and an oversized hat, Sascha (Victoria Carmen Sonne) looks as though she was made for this place. She drifts around the hotel pool on an inflatable crocodile, leans out laughing in the bow of a yacht or giggles over cocktails. One day, buying strawberry ice cream, she catches the eye of a young Dutchman, Thomas (Thijs Römer). But Sascha is already attached – to fortysomething mobster Michael (Lai Yde) – a man whom she has already learned will respond to disloyalty with violence…Read More »

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