Flickering Lights
I have a hard time finding the exact words for what makes Danish cinema feel so special to me. But if I had to choose one movie as the best example of that strange, heartwarming feeling, it would probably be [...]
The Last Viking
The premise of The Last Viking already sounds ridiculous enough: Anker gets out of prison after fifteen years and wants to recover the money from the robbery that sent him there. The only person who knows where it was buried [...]
After the Wedding
To this day, I still have not watched the American remake of After the Wedding. I have only seen the trailer, and honestly, it already felt like a very different movie to me. So everything here is about Susanne Bier's [...]
The Green Butchers
Just imagine buying some sausage from the local butcher and thinking it is probably the best meat ever made. (It might also help that the butcher happens to look like Mads Mikkelsen.) Then it turns out that the sausage is [...]
Another Round – Druk
First of all, I would like to put another check on my Mads Mikkelsen bingo card. At this point I am seriously starting to wonder: am I only watching Danish movies with Mads Mikkelsen in them, or is Mads Mikkelsen [...]
Open Hearts – Elsker dig for evigt
I honestly don't think I even need to review this movie. I can just tell you the plot and leave. Cecilie and Joachim are a young couple, happily engaged and about to get married. Then Joachim gets hit by a [...]
In a Better World
This was a very touching movie for me, especially because of the way it deals with violence and what being a "strong man" actually means. Anton is probably the strongest person in the movie, at least in the way I [...]
Adam’s Apple
I think Adam's Apples might actually have been the first Danish movie I ever watched. And honestly, it probably played a role in why I became so interested in Danish cinema afterwards. I knew almost nothing about it at the [...]
Corpus Christi
For some reason, I feel like Corpus Christi might be a good movie for people who watched Fleabag and were left wanting more priests, complicated relationships with religion, and people who are probably not making the best decisions of their [...]
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