A nice little film with really good actors, which, for the most part, succeeds in bringing Stine Pilgaard's new classic to the screen.
The film works best when it sticks to the original material and fairly directly translates the book to the screen. However, during the periods when it tries to be a broader, classic Danish comedy (the cast is largely the same as in 'Badehotellet'), I feel it falls somewhere in between. Although the original book is short in text, it contains quite extensive individual episodes, and in a film adaptation, choices must be made about which ones to include.
I could have used more of the original elements, but on the other hand, I don't need the story of how the couple arrives at the boarding school or an 'uplifting' ending beyond what's in the book. And while the dance scene in 'Den eneste ene' (The One and Only) may be a part of Danish film history, there's no need to replicate it here.
The film works best when it sticks to the original material and fairly directly translates the book to the screen. However, during the periods when it tries to be a broader, classic Danish comedy (the cast is largely the same as in 'Badehotellet'), I feel it falls somewhere in between. Although the original book is short in text, it contains quite extensive individual episodes, and in a film adaptation, choices must be made about which ones to include.
I could have used more of the original elements, but on the other hand, I don't need the story of how the couple arrives at the boarding school or an 'uplifting' ending beyond what's in the book. And while the dance scene in 'Den eneste ene' (The One and Only) may be a part of Danish film history, there's no need to replicate it here.
