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Den du frygter
Danish films manage to do it EVERY TIME. Untold backstories & sinister undercurrents. Super good acting. On top of which, Anders Tomas Jensen helped write this one, too. Complex, suspenseful & harrowing.
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.
Yeah, I’ve been kiiind of emo today. I don’t know why. Probably because of the cold. And some troubles involving transferring classes.
Watched Unge Andersen this morning, when I had actually planned to have that movie on while I do laundry. Eventually I ended up being unable to leave the screen, even though it’s the third time I was seeing it and I thought I knew every bit of the film.
I was impressed by the cinematography all over again. Also, it’s a deeply emotional film. Not to mention it’s the first Danish film I’ve ever seen. It may seem like an easy statement, but it means a lot to me on a personal level, because it served as an introduction to the wealth of Danish films and their fascinating perspectives.
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.
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.
