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This is going to be a rather rushed & disorganised entry, but I recently revisited one of the films Thure has starred in & looked up his more recent projects.
I’ve always wanted to see him play a gay character and I just discovered that he has done so. (With Nicolas Bro in it, too. Could it get any better.) He’s mostly played heterosexual characters (bisexual in one case) & I just wanted to see how it is for an actor who’s gay in real life to actually play a gay character. Would it be different from a straight actor playing a gay character? It’d be interesting to see.
Blå mænd
Durch, für, gegen, ohne, wieder, um
– kennst du nicht den Akkusativ, dann bist du wirklich dumm!
LOL.
I’ve been waiting for this film for ages, ever since Flammen og Citronen came out. Thure Lindhardt is just love, even though there isn’t much acting in this film to speak of. Nonetheless Blå mænd is a fun movie to watch. It’s made up of a bunch of colourful characters, each having his/her own quirks. I love the scene where Lotte kung-fu busted the German guyz, haha!
Worth watching!
The DVD for this film is very expensive, I’m not sure why because there’s hardly any handsome actors in it, but in any case there is Thure Lindhardt! (Even though he’s like, 10 years old in this movie. He’s the boy who sits in front of Pelle in class.) Nonetheless Pelle erobreren seems to follow Thure’s resume everywhere on the net: it gets mentioned all the time. And that’s part of the reason why I watched this film.
Pelle erobreren is a rather candid portrayal of 19th century rural life, with the social-economical gap, the forbidden affair between a rich man’s son and a farm girl. And ultimately, this film chronicles the struggles of a poor, immigrant servant boy who eventually took the courage to leave the place that had tormented him but also taught him lessons in life.
Having recently been reading Icelandic sagas from the Medieval period, I can somewhat relate to certain elements of the film, (such as the lifestyle of farmers and the hope and threats that comes from the ocean.) They were touching.
I’m a stranger here, and if somebody says,
“We don’t like strangers”, then I say, “I don’t care.”
I don’t care, and you know why?
Because I’m happy with who I am,
and that’s the most important thing.
Good movie.
This is the story of four people involved with the drug scene whose lives interlaced with one another. The youths struggle with fates that are full of sorrow, but at the same time misery finds redemption in bittersweet moments.
The “skipping” interludes gets a bit too long. Otherwise, everything was well-paced and the acting was simply fantastic.
Notably, Signe Egholm Olsen, who came off as a bubbly Copenhagen girl in Into The Wild, plays the lonely and neglected pusher-girl, while Thure Lindhardt plays Steso, a boy from an average family who fell hard by the wayside. (Signe Egholm Olsen & Thure Lindhardt were so cute together in Into The Wild!)
See, I just knew that Lars Mikkelsen could do a good job as Thure (Steso)’s Father. I love the scene with Lars and Thure. So affecting. I’ve seen them collaborate in the Danish crime series “Unit One”, where Lars’ played (some sort of) guardian to Thure, with impressive performance from both of them, too. They do really well together.
Worth watching.
The thing that shocked me the most is that it’s based on true events. Christopher McCandless existed in real life — Christopher McCandless, who abandoned his identity and took up a trip to redefine himself as a person. The events in the films were derived from anecdotes by people who had met and interacted with him.
It’s really a good thing that Christopher’s story eventually got made into a movie, so that his journey of self-discovery can continue to inspire people for years to come. His experience is as relevant in his time almost 2 decades ago as in this day.
OH, and I almost forgot to mention that Thure Lindhardt is in this film. As the goofiest goof ever.
What use is love only in thought?
When the time comes, you won’t know.
Love In Thoughts is a movie that explores the depth of love and volatility of thought. It is basically about a love “pentagon”. A character relationship map should come in handy here:
This film is based on an actual incident that occurred in 1927, Weimar Germany, where a student committed suicide after shooting his lover to death.
On a regular weekend, Günther and Paul forms a suicide club whose decree is that a member should end his life at the moment when he no longer feels any love, taking the one he most loved with him, as a revenge to love lost. With the intention to find the ultimate happiness, they invite a bunch of schoolmates to a dissipated party at a summer house in the suburbs. The film unfolds the short chronicle of agony and struggle among the lovers and the beloved that lead to the eventual tragedy.
I haven’t watched too many German films. Funny that all of the German films I’ve watched so far…
Princess is a Danish animated feature film that deals with a few controversial themes.
In the film, a missionary named August returns to Denmark upon his sister’s death, whereupon he adopts his sister’s 5-year-old daughter, Mia. His sister, Christina, nicknamed “Princess”, had been a popular porn star who led a dysfunctional life, and August soon discovers that not only had his sister been exploited by the pornography company, Mia was also sexually abused on a continuous basis. Consumed with anger, August, with Mia in tow, began a violent and vengeful quest to destroy all materials involving the “Princess”. In the process of hunting down the initial perpetrator, August has to come face-to-face with the aftermaths of his past ignorance and apathy.
This film has been directed by Anders Morgenthaler, one of the (in)famous duo who…
Flame & Citron is a Danish movie that tells the story about two assassins from the Danish Holger Danske anti-German resistance group during WWII — Bent Fauerschou-Hviid, nicknamed Flammen for his red hair, and Jørgen Haagen Schmidt, nicknamed Citronen after his place of work, Citroën Automobile. They are portrayed by the very talented Thure Lindhardt and Denmark’s most famous actor Mads Mikkelsen.
