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 [...]