Tag: Cinema of Denmark
Home Sweet Home | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Sofie, Homemaker: Petersen Banks on Undervalued Emotional Labor
Danish director Frelle Petersen’s latest title Home Sweet Home (Hjem kaere hjem) aims to showcase the significant...
Exclusive Trailer: Frelle Petersen’s “Home Sweet Home” – 2025 Berlinale
The 75th edition of the Berlinale begins today and tomorrow, on Valentine's day, is the world premiere to Frelle Petersen's Home Sweet Home (Hjem...
Sauna | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Review
Love Me If You Dare: Broe Explores Love in a Hopeless Place
Harlan Ellison’s publication Love Ain’t Nothing But Sex Misspelled might be a more...
The Girl with the Needle | Review
Casa de los Babys: von Horn Hits a Bleak Streak
You know you’re in for something dark and dreary when a film opens upon a...
The Apprentice | Review
The Devil and Donald Trump: Abbasi Reconstructs the Rise of a Crony Capitalist
Among the many wise observations written by nineteenth century Englishman Lord Acton,...
Sons (Vogter) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
A Poison Tree: Moller Employs Wrathful Mother in Jailhouse Revenge Drama
“A man that studied revenge keeps his own wounds green,” comes to mind in...
Bastarden (The Promised Land) | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
The Good Earth: Arcel Inherits the Wind with Romanticized Historical Recuperation
After making his English language debut with the imperiled Stephen King adaptation The Dark...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #29. Isabella Eklöf’s Kalak
Kalak
We still think about her breakout directorial debut and we were filled with glee when we learned that Isabella Eklöf moved into her sophomore...
Dirty Dane: Emil Johnsen Confronts Painful Past in Isabella Eklöf’s “Kalak”
In terms of new trauma triggering old trauma experiences, her debut film Holiday was no walk in the park and now for Isabella Eklöf's...
Speak No Evil | Review
Dial M for Manners: Tafdrup Uses Cruel Intentions to Play Funny Games
Oftentimes the simplest, most realistic scenarios breaking through the veneer of contentment and...
Flee | Review
Flee a Mile in your Neighbor’s Shoes: Ramussen’s Refugee Doc Is A Journey Worth Taking
Evocative animation, first-person pain and a strong dose of hope...
Wildland | Review
Wild in the Streets: Nordahl’s Debut Spins on Devotional Dysfunction
The family crest for the sinister brood at the heart of Jeanette Nordahl’s directorial debut...
Riders of Justice [Video Review]
Chances Are: Jensen Gets Improbable in Violent Soap Opera
Denmark’s Anders Thomas Jensen brings his offbeat skills at scripted ensembles to his fifth feature as...
Enforcement [Video Review]
Cop(s) Out: Hviid & Olholm Provide Neutral Portrait Prizing Familiar Perspectives
Cinema can certainly successfully exist as both a statement and a sentiment, and...
Another Round | Review
The Libation Bearers: Vinterberg Explores a Collective Mid-life Crisis in Boozy Black Comedy
Thomas Vinterberg returns to his favored motifs, experimental behavioral portraits of Danish...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #139. Kød & Blod – Jeannette Nordahl
Kød & Blod
Denmark’s Jeannette Nordahl makes her debut with crime thriller Kød & Blod (Wildland), headlined by esteemed actress Sidse Babett Knudsen (“Westworld,” The...
Interview: Ali Abbasi – Border
Two years after Shelley, a horror film based on a Norse mythology and folktale, Ali Abbasi premiered the buzz heavy Border at the Cannes Film...
Video: Ali Abbassi’s Border | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
The surprise hit of the Un Certain Regard and kudos to the Benicio del Toro led jury on giving the section's top honors, Ali...
The Guilty | Review
Right Man at the Wrong Desk: Gustav Möller Cracks the Case with Debut
You wouldn’t expect the tipping point of a thriller to be marked...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Before the Frost
Making it two for two, with the premiere of Before the Frost following 2017's Papillon as TIFF premieres, Michael Noer landed in Toronto with players...
