Fast-rising Danish production powerhouse Motor, led by scribe Christian Torpe and producer Jesper Morthorst, has unveiled a splashy five-pic slate, led by the Göteborg Film Festival’s closing film “Camino” by Birgitte Stærmose and Tea Lindeburg’s pic in development “The Seal Woman,” to be pitched at the Discovery strand of Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market (Feb. 2-5).
One of the hottest new Danish directors, Netflix “Equinox” series creator Lindeburg made waves on the festival circuit with her directorial debut “As in Heaven,” which scooped a double win in San Sebastian and best-Nordic statuette in Göteborg 2021, before wooing several buyers including Juno Films in the U.S.
Her anticipated sophomore feature “The Seal Woman,” based on her original screenplay, is inspired by a Faroese legend, which has it that those who drown themselves turn into seals. And once every year, they return to shore in their human shape.
The story...
One of the hottest new Danish directors, Netflix “Equinox” series creator Lindeburg made waves on the festival circuit with her directorial debut “As in Heaven,” which scooped a double win in San Sebastian and best-Nordic statuette in Göteborg 2021, before wooing several buyers including Juno Films in the U.S.
Her anticipated sophomore feature “The Seal Woman,” based on her original screenplay, is inspired by a Faroese legend, which has it that those who drown themselves turn into seals. And once every year, they return to shore in their human shape.
The story...
- 1/19/2023
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Scandinavia’s leading streamer Viaplay has ordered its Danish feature, “Camino,” a heartwarming comedy-drama directed by Birgitte Stærmose (“Industry”) with a cast led by Lars Brygmann and Danica Curcic (“The Chestnut Man”).
“Camino” portrays the complex relationship between a father and daughter who are walking a famous pilgrim route in Spain. The film is produced by Copenhagen’s Motor and will premiere exclusively on Viaplay in 2023.
Penned by Stærmose and Kim Fupz Aakeson (“Becoming Astrid’), the film tells the story of Regitze (Danica Curcic), who is in her early 30s, pregnant and no longer speaks to her father Jan (Lars Brygmann). But when they discover that Regitze’s mother’s dying wish was for them to follow the Camino de Santiago together, the two set out on a 260-kilometer journey of discovery under the burning Spanish sun.
“Many people have children, but everybody has parents. Processing and dealing with baggage...
“Camino” portrays the complex relationship between a father and daughter who are walking a famous pilgrim route in Spain. The film is produced by Copenhagen’s Motor and will premiere exclusively on Viaplay in 2023.
Penned by Stærmose and Kim Fupz Aakeson (“Becoming Astrid’), the film tells the story of Regitze (Danica Curcic), who is in her early 30s, pregnant and no longer speaks to her father Jan (Lars Brygmann). But when they discover that Regitze’s mother’s dying wish was for them to follow the Camino de Santiago together, the two set out on a 260-kilometer journey of discovery under the burning Spanish sun.
“Many people have children, but everybody has parents. Processing and dealing with baggage...
- 12/9/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
In the near future, robots have become a commonplace part of family life, providing 24/7 companionship to children. Alberte’s (Selma Iljazovski) teddy bear like robot, Robbi (voice of Lars Brygmann) is extremely out of date, so they use a connection to get her an advance example of the brand new model. Konrad (Philip Elbech Andresen) is so lifelike, he could be a real boy. When she discovers that’s exactly what he is, Alberte is at first betrayed, but then must set off on an adventure to help him.
I can see the appeal, especially for kids who are isolated or picked on, of having something like the robots depicted in the world that Alberte and her friends inhabit. Indeed, I might have found value in something like it when I was young myself. That said, what writer/director Frederik Meldal Nørgaard seems to largely miss here is how incredibly...
I can see the appeal, especially for kids who are isolated or picked on, of having something like the robots depicted in the world that Alberte and her friends inhabit. Indeed, I might have found value in something like it when I was young myself. That said, what writer/director Frederik Meldal Nørgaard seems to largely miss here is how incredibly...
- 10/17/2022
- by Sam Inglis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Powder Keg (Krudttønden) Samuel Goldwyn Films Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Ole Christian Madsen Writer: Lars Kristian Andersen, Ole Christian Madsen Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lars Brygmann, Jakob Oftebro, Sonja Richter, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Martin Greis-Rosenthal Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 7/29/21 Opens: September 3, 2021 The political situation […]
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- 8/29/2021
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
"Why can't we express our opinions or humour?" Samuel Goldwyn Films has released an official US trailer for a Danish drama titled Powder Keg, releasing in the US this September. (Not to be confused with that BMW driver short of the same name.) The film also goes under the title The Day We Died, and originally Krudttønden in Danish (referring to the the Krudttønden cultural centre where the attack took place), and opened there last year. The film is based on the true events surrounding the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on February 14th and 15th, 2015, which followed the recent Charlie Hebdo attacks a month before. The film follows various people in Copenhagen whose lives change with this shooting. The full cast includes Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lars Brygmann, Albert Arthur Amiryan, Adam Buschard, Jakob Oftebro, and Sonja Richter. This looks chilling and very dark, "freely inspired by true events," showing unique stories.
- 7/29/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Mads Mikkelsen is the enthusiastically violent avenger, with top back-up support, in Anders Thomas Jensen’s darkly funny new movie
A former military man is driven to avenge the death of his wife with brutal, at times overly enthusiastic efficiency. It’s a fairly generic revenge movie premise. However, in the hands of Danish director and co-writer Anders Thomas Jensen (the man behind transgressive black comedy Men & Chicken), the revenge movie takes a swerve into more unexpected territory. Jensen’s approach has always been to push the limits of acceptable subjects for comedy, and this is no exception. Violence aside, there are some moments – I hesitate to call them gags – dealing with sexual abuse that venture into pretty dark places, comedically speaking. Others are gloriously absurd. We laugh, partly, from relief at escaping the unimaginable.
The reliably excellent Mads Mikkelsen channels the rigid black-and-white certainties of military man Markus.
A former military man is driven to avenge the death of his wife with brutal, at times overly enthusiastic efficiency. It’s a fairly generic revenge movie premise. However, in the hands of Danish director and co-writer Anders Thomas Jensen (the man behind transgressive black comedy Men & Chicken), the revenge movie takes a swerve into more unexpected territory. Jensen’s approach has always been to push the limits of acceptable subjects for comedy, and this is no exception. Violence aside, there are some moments – I hesitate to call them gags – dealing with sexual abuse that venture into pretty dark places, comedically speaking. Others are gloriously absurd. We laugh, partly, from relief at escaping the unimaginable.
The reliably excellent Mads Mikkelsen channels the rigid black-and-white certainties of military man Markus.
- 7/24/2021
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Anders Thomas Jensen’s film is far-fetched, tonally wayward and shouldn’t work at all, but somehow it all comes together
The poster image of a grey-bearded, shaven-headed, tooled-up, mean-looking Mads Mikkelsen, combined with that title, might set alarm bells ringing … along the lines of, “Oh no, he’s doing a Taken.” Blessedly, rather than giving us a straightahead middle-aged revenge thriller, this unpredictable Danish film takes apart the whole trope. There are action thrills, to be sure, but they are folded into what becomes a sort of group therapy session on the psychology of grief, guilt, vengeance, chance and coincidence. Even more blessedly, it’s often hilarious.
Mikkelsen plays Markus, a military commander who is recalled from Afghanistan when his wife is killed in a train crash. He might have a particular set of skills, as Liam Neeson would put it, but emotional intelligence is not one of them.
The poster image of a grey-bearded, shaven-headed, tooled-up, mean-looking Mads Mikkelsen, combined with that title, might set alarm bells ringing … along the lines of, “Oh no, he’s doing a Taken.” Blessedly, rather than giving us a straightahead middle-aged revenge thriller, this unpredictable Danish film takes apart the whole trope. There are action thrills, to be sure, but they are folded into what becomes a sort of group therapy session on the psychology of grief, guilt, vengeance, chance and coincidence. Even more blessedly, it’s often hilarious.
Mikkelsen plays Markus, a military commander who is recalled from Afghanistan when his wife is killed in a train crash. He might have a particular set of skills, as Liam Neeson would put it, but emotional intelligence is not one of them.
- 7/22/2021
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The familiar vengeance payback genre has some goofy and entirely welcome top-spin applied to it in Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders Of Justice. The Danish film also features a version of Mads Mikkelsen — currently at a career peak — that we’ve never seen before, with his handsome face hidden behind an Ozark-style full beard as a tough army officer ill-prepared to console his bereft teenaged daughter in the wake of her mother’s violent death.
Writer-director Jensen knows Mikkelsen well, having written previous films for the actor including The Salvation, After The Wedding and Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself. Jensen has also enjoyed good fortune at the Oscars — directing 1998 Best Short Subject winner, Election Night; as co-writer of the 2009 winner in the same category, The New Tenants; and as screenwriter of Suzanne Bier’s 2011 Best Foreign Language Film laureate, In A Better World.
At the outset, Riders Of Justice, which...
Writer-director Jensen knows Mikkelsen well, having written previous films for the actor including The Salvation, After The Wedding and Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself. Jensen has also enjoyed good fortune at the Oscars — directing 1998 Best Short Subject winner, Election Night; as co-writer of the 2009 winner in the same category, The New Tenants; and as screenwriter of Suzanne Bier’s 2011 Best Foreign Language Film laureate, In A Better World.
At the outset, Riders Of Justice, which...
- 5/21/2021
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
Who knows how it was forged, the ironclad bond between Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen and Mads Mikkelsen, star of countless sex dreams and recent Oscar-winner Another Round. Perhaps they buried a body together. Whatever the reason, we continue to reap the benefits as that actor, who has been central to all of Jensen’s movies (including his 2000 debut Flickering Lights), reunites with his pal/conspirator-in-corpse-disposal to deliver their fifth, and very possibly finest collaboration to date: the witty, weird and wantonly violent Riders of Justice.
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- 5/14/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Rollingstone.com
Roadside Attractions is releasing Finding You, a coming of age romantic drama based on Jenny B. Jones’ novel There You’ll Find Me and written and directed by Brian Baugh. The pic, which is available in theaters today, stars Rose Reid, Jedidiah Goodacre, Katherine McNamara, Patrick Bergin, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, with Tom Everett Scott, and Vanessa Redgrave
In the movie, after an ill-fated audition at a prestigious New York music conservatory, violinist Finley Sinclair (Reid) travels to an Irish coastal village to begin her semester studying abroad. At the B&b run by her host family, she encounters gregarious and persistent heartthrob movie star Beckett Rush (Goodacre), who is there to film another installment of his medieval fantasy-adventure franchise.
As romance sparks between the unlikely pair, Beckett ignites a journey of discovery for Finley that transforms her heart, her music, and her outlook on life. In turn, Finley emboldens Beckett to reach...
In the movie, after an ill-fated audition at a prestigious New York music conservatory, violinist Finley Sinclair (Reid) travels to an Irish coastal village to begin her semester studying abroad. At the B&b run by her host family, she encounters gregarious and persistent heartthrob movie star Beckett Rush (Goodacre), who is there to film another installment of his medieval fantasy-adventure franchise.
As romance sparks between the unlikely pair, Beckett ignites a journey of discovery for Finley that transforms her heart, her music, and her outlook on life. In turn, Finley emboldens Beckett to reach...
- 5/14/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
A scene from Riders Of Justice (Retfærdighedens Ryttere), a Magnet release.
Photo credit: Rolf Konow. Courtesy of Magnet Releasing
Although the title reads like something from a 1930s Western, this is a very contemporary Danish revenge flick with a unique blend of action and comedy, written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen and starring Mads Mikkelsen. It is also my favorite film, thus far, of 2021. Sneaky excellence in a surprising package.
We open with math geek Otto (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) struggling to explain the commercial value of his algorithm for predictions, factoring far more causal factors than any other program. It is akin to the axiomatic butterfly in Africa fluttering its wings setting in motion a chain of events that result in something quite different across the globe. The tunnel-vision Board fails to see how it will serve their only goal of selling their product, so they fire him and his fellow nerds.
Photo credit: Rolf Konow. Courtesy of Magnet Releasing
Although the title reads like something from a 1930s Western, this is a very contemporary Danish revenge flick with a unique blend of action and comedy, written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen and starring Mads Mikkelsen. It is also my favorite film, thus far, of 2021. Sneaky excellence in a surprising package.
We open with math geek Otto (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) struggling to explain the commercial value of his algorithm for predictions, factoring far more causal factors than any other program. It is akin to the axiomatic butterfly in Africa fluttering its wings setting in motion a chain of events that result in something quite different across the globe. The tunnel-vision Board fails to see how it will serve their only goal of selling their product, so they fire him and his fellow nerds.
- 5/14/2021
- by Mark Glass
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Riders Of Justice (Retfærdighedens Rytterel) Magnet Releasing Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Anders Thomas Jensen Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Gustav Lindh, Roland Møller Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/1/21 Opens: May 14, 2021 “Riders […]
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- 5/9/2021
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
"We're just gonna talk to him." Magnet Releasing has debuted an official US trailer for the Danish revenge dark comedy titled Riders of Justice, from filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen. We've already been featuring the original Danish trailers for this since last year, and it's now opening in May in the US (both in theaters and on VOD). Mads Mikkelsen stars as Markus, a military vet who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck - but it turns out that it might have been a carefully orchestrated assassination, which his wife ended up being a random casualty of. A few passengers find him and they set out to enact revenge. The cast includes Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Gustav Lindh, Roland Møller, Nicolas Bro, Jacob Lohmann, and Lars Brygmann. I saw this at IFFR and it's awesome!
- 4/15/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The story is set in the near future, where the climate crisis has been solved, everything is green and sustainable, and people live with their own personal robot assistants. Danish filmmaker Frederik Nørgaard is now filming his new feature, a sci-fi family flick with the working title My Robot Brother. The story, penned by Jacob Tingleff and the director himself, is based on a novel by Morten Dürr and is set in the near future, where the climate crisis has been solved, everything is green and sustainable, and people live with their own personal robot assistants. Here, lonely 12-year-old Alberte (played by Selma Iljazovski) is given the perfect birthday present: the newest humanoid model on the market, Konrad (Philip Elbech), who looks and acts completely as if he were human. He’s far better than her old teddy-bear-like robot, Robbi (voiced by Lars Brygmann), who is quite an...
Photo: ‘Riders of Justice’/Nordisk Film How do we justify the violence inherent in our society? How do we make sense of terrible tragedy? At what point does reliance on science and logic become too extreme, rendering one’s mind as inflexible as that of a fundamentalist religious zealot? These are some of the questions at the heart of ‘Riders of Justice’ ('Retfærdighedens Ryttere'), the hilarious and heartbreaking new film from Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen. The film, which is the fifth collaboration between the director and stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Mads Mikkelsen, follows career soldier Markus (Mikkelsen) as he adjusts to domestic life and single fatherhood after the sudden death of his wife in a freak train accident. Only statistician Otto (Kaas), who also happened to be on the train, does not believe it was an accident, believing instead that it was an assassination conducted by the Riders of Justice,...
- 3/3/2021
- by Trent Kinnucan
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
TrustNordisk has closed key territory sales on “Riders of Justice,” Anders Thomas Jensen’s dark comedy starring Mads Mikkelsen.
“Riders of Justice” revolves around a military man Markus (Mikkelsen), who returns home to his teenage daughter after his wife dies in a tragic train accident. When a passenger on the wrecked train surfaces with claims of foul play, Markus begins to suspect the accident may have been a carefully orchestrated assassination.
Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Gustav Lindh and Andrea H. Gadeberg also star. The movie, which won four Danish Film Awards, was produced by Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Sidsel Hybschmann for Zentropa Entertainments3.
Jensen is the screenwriter behind Susanne Bier’s Oscar-winning drama “In a Better World.” His directorial credits include “Men & Chicken,” “Adam’s Apples,” “The Green Butchers” and “Flickering Lights” — all of which star Mikkelsen.
TrustNordisk sold the film to Canada (Mongrel Media), Spain (La Aventura...
“Riders of Justice” revolves around a military man Markus (Mikkelsen), who returns home to his teenage daughter after his wife dies in a tragic train accident. When a passenger on the wrecked train surfaces with claims of foul play, Markus begins to suspect the accident may have been a carefully orchestrated assassination.
Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Gustav Lindh and Andrea H. Gadeberg also star. The movie, which won four Danish Film Awards, was produced by Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Sidsel Hybschmann for Zentropa Entertainments3.
Jensen is the screenwriter behind Susanne Bier’s Oscar-winning drama “In a Better World.” His directorial credits include “Men & Chicken,” “Adam’s Apples,” “The Green Butchers” and “Flickering Lights” — all of which star Mikkelsen.
TrustNordisk sold the film to Canada (Mongrel Media), Spain (La Aventura...
- 3/2/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Other winners from Danish academy include Riders of Justice, Cry Wolf, The Mole.
Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round continues its streak by winning best film, best director, best original screenplay, best actor and best editing at Denmark’s Robert Awards, presented by the Danish Film Academy on Saturday night (Feb 6).
Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders of Justice, the opening film at Rotterdam last week, also fared well at the Roberts, winning best actress (newcomer Andrea Heick Gadeberg) and best supporting actor for Lars Brygmann, as well as best visual effects.
Another newcomer, Özlem Saglanmak, was named best supporting actress for...
Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round continues its streak by winning best film, best director, best original screenplay, best actor and best editing at Denmark’s Robert Awards, presented by the Danish Film Academy on Saturday night (Feb 6).
Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders of Justice, the opening film at Rotterdam last week, also fared well at the Roberts, winning best actress (newcomer Andrea Heick Gadeberg) and best supporting actor for Lars Brygmann, as well as best visual effects.
Another newcomer, Özlem Saglanmak, was named best supporting actress for...
- 2/9/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
‘Riders of Justice’ Director on the Making of his Existential Comedy Drama and TV vs. the Big Screen
When Anders Thomas Jensen hit 45 years of age the “Adam’s Apple” and “Men & Chicken” director said he had a “minor breakdown,” questioning the point of his life and desperately searching for meaning.
Channeling these feelings into the character of a military man with Ptsd whose wife has just died in a train explosion that may not have been an accident was the start point of Jensen’s fifth feature as a director: a mid-life noir that straddles action, comedy and existential drama.
Monday night’s Rotterdam Film Festival opener, “Riders of Justice” treads that delicate line between farce and tragedy as solider Markus (Jensen regular Mads Mikkelsen), also father to teenager Mathilde, hooks up with three oddball maths geeks to determine the cause of the fatal crash.
Markus’ band of data analysts and hackers – more accustomed to breaking into computer systems to steal free gym memberships than tracing criminal biker gangs,...
Channeling these feelings into the character of a military man with Ptsd whose wife has just died in a train explosion that may not have been an accident was the start point of Jensen’s fifth feature as a director: a mid-life noir that straddles action, comedy and existential drama.
Monday night’s Rotterdam Film Festival opener, “Riders of Justice” treads that delicate line between farce and tragedy as solider Markus (Jensen regular Mads Mikkelsen), also father to teenager Mathilde, hooks up with three oddball maths geeks to determine the cause of the fatal crash.
Markus’ band of data analysts and hackers – more accustomed to breaking into computer systems to steal free gym memberships than tracing criminal biker gangs,...
- 2/3/2021
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Deliriously wry and so perfectly balanced it should become a case study in script classes, “Riders of Justice” may be the film that finally gives Anders Thomas Jensen international recognition beyond his usual spotlight as a sought-after screenwriter. Comparisons with the Coen brothers will be inevitable given oddball characters whose fixations and genuine heart contrast with moments of extreme violence, yet the roots of this black revenge comedy go back even further, bringing an asocial spin to classic screwballers where a group of quirky misfits are balanced out by a lone woman who’s the most put-together and in touch of the bunch.
Jensen works with his customary stable of actors, many of whom have appeared in his previous four features including Mads Mikkelsen, the most globally recognized of the group and currently enjoying quite a year between this and “Another Round.” Box office in Denmark was predictably high for...
Jensen works with his customary stable of actors, many of whom have appeared in his previous four features including Mads Mikkelsen, the most globally recognized of the group and currently enjoying quite a year between this and “Another Round.” Box office in Denmark was predictably high for...
- 2/3/2021
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Samuel Goldwyn has acquired U.S. rights to Christina Rosendahl’s World War II-set drama “The Good Traitor” and Ole Christian Madsen’s Danish terrorist drama “The Day We Died” (“Powder Keg”) from REinvent.
Based on true events, “The Day We Died” is headlined by “Game Of Thrones” star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The film follows the journey of four people connected to the February 2015 terrorist attacks in Copenhagen: a newly released criminal, a filmmaker, a Jewish watchman and a police officer. Only one of them will be left alive. Coster-Waldau stars opposite Lars Brygmann, Albert Arthur Amiryan and Adam Buschard. Creative Alliance produced the film.
“The Good Traitor” is based on the true story of Denmark’s ambassador to the U.S., Henrik Kauffmann. An unsung hero, Kauffmann was the Danish ambassador to Washington in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II and declared himself to be the only true representative...
Based on true events, “The Day We Died” is headlined by “Game Of Thrones” star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The film follows the journey of four people connected to the February 2015 terrorist attacks in Copenhagen: a newly released criminal, a filmmaker, a Jewish watchman and a police officer. Only one of them will be left alive. Coster-Waldau stars opposite Lars Brygmann, Albert Arthur Amiryan and Adam Buschard. Creative Alliance produced the film.
“The Good Traitor” is based on the true story of Denmark’s ambassador to the U.S., Henrik Kauffmann. An unsung hero, Kauffmann was the Danish ambassador to Washington in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II and declared himself to be the only true representative...
- 1/7/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Anders Thomas Jensen’s action comedy “Riders of Justice,” starring Mads Mikkelsen, will open the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam. The festival will be staged in two parts this year: the first, in a hybrid format, running Feb. 1-7, and the second, hopefully a physical event, June 2-6. The awards ceremony will take place on Feb. 7.
In “Riders of Justice,” Mikkelsen plays Markus, a military man who returns home to look after his daughter Mathilde following his wife’s death in a train accident. At first it looks like she was the victim of a tragic piece of bad luck, but then mathematics geek Otto (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), a fellow passenger on the train, shows up with his two eccentric colleagues, Lennart (Lars Brygmann) and Emmenthaler (Nicolas Bro), and floats the theory of a possible murder conspiracy. The film plays in the Limelight section.
Jensen is Denmark’s top screenwriter,...
In “Riders of Justice,” Mikkelsen plays Markus, a military man who returns home to look after his daughter Mathilde following his wife’s death in a train accident. At first it looks like she was the victim of a tragic piece of bad luck, but then mathematics geek Otto (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), a fellow passenger on the train, shows up with his two eccentric colleagues, Lennart (Lars Brygmann) and Emmenthaler (Nicolas Bro), and floats the theory of a possible murder conspiracy. The film plays in the Limelight section.
Jensen is Denmark’s top screenwriter,...
- 12/22/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Danish black comedy also picked up for Switzerland, Anz and Brazil.
France and Japan are among several new territories to snap up Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders Of Justice, starring Mads Mikkelsen, from TrustNordisk.
The Danish black comedy has been acquired by France (Snd – Groupe M6), Japan (Klockworx), Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto), and Brazil (Synapse).
Recent deals were closed for the US (Magnet Releasing) and UK (Vertigo Releasing).
The film had its local release in Denmark on November 19, reporting 150,000 admissions on its opening weekend – the biggest in Denmark this year. It also ranked as the biggest...
France and Japan are among several new territories to snap up Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders Of Justice, starring Mads Mikkelsen, from TrustNordisk.
The Danish black comedy has been acquired by France (Snd – Groupe M6), Japan (Klockworx), Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto), and Brazil (Synapse).
Recent deals were closed for the US (Magnet Releasing) and UK (Vertigo Releasing).
The film had its local release in Denmark on November 19, reporting 150,000 admissions on its opening weekend – the biggest in Denmark this year. It also ranked as the biggest...
- 12/7/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Danish dark comedy hopes to receive a theatrical release in 2021.
Vertigo Releasing has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Anders Thomas Jensen’s Danish dark comedy Riders Of Justice, starring Mads Mikkelsen, from TrustNordisk.
The distributor is hoping to release the film in spring 2021.
The story centres on military man Markus (Mikkelsen), who returns home to his teenage daughter after his wife dies in a tragic train accident. But when a passenger on the wrecked train surfaces with claims of foul play, Markus begins to suspect the accident may have been a carefully orchestrated assassination.
Alongside Mikkelsen, who was recently...
Vertigo Releasing has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Anders Thomas Jensen’s Danish dark comedy Riders Of Justice, starring Mads Mikkelsen, from TrustNordisk.
The distributor is hoping to release the film in spring 2021.
The story centres on military man Markus (Mikkelsen), who returns home to his teenage daughter after his wife dies in a tragic train accident. But when a passenger on the wrecked train surfaces with claims of foul play, Markus begins to suspect the accident may have been a carefully orchestrated assassination.
Alongside Mikkelsen, who was recently...
- 12/1/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Riders of Justice International Trailer — Anders Thomas Jensen‘s Riders of Justice / Retfærdighedens ryttere (2020) international movie trailer has been released by Zentropa Productions and stars Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Roland Moller, Rikke Louise Andersson, Jesper Ole Feit Andersen, Kaspar Velberg, Gustav [...]
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- 10/23/2020
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"What is it for?" "I want to avenge my wife." Nordisk Film has debuted the full-length official trailer (with English subtitles this time!) for a Danish revenge dark comedy titled Riders of Justice, from filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen. The film is opening in Denmark this fall, but still has no international dates set. Mads Mikkelsen stars as Markus, a military vet who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck - but it turns out that it might have been a carefully orchestrated assassination, which his wife ended up being a random casualty of. A few passengers find him and they set out to enact revenge. The cast includes Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Gustav Lindh, Roland Møller, Nicolas Bro, Jacob Lohmann, and Lars Brygmann. This looks so awesome! I love Mads and his beard,...
- 10/20/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Nordisk Film has unveiled a short teaser for a Danish revenge dark comedy titled Riders of Justice, from filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen. The original Danish title is much more badass: Retfærdighedens ryttere. The film is opening in Denmark this fall, but still has no international dates set. Mads Mikkelsen stars as Markus, a military vet who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck - but it turns out that it might have been a carefully orchestrated assassination, which his wife ended up being a random casualty of. A few passengers find him and they set out to enact revenge. The cast includes Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Gustav Lindh, Roland Møller, Nicolas Bro, Jacob Lohmann, and Lars Brygmann. There's no subtitles with this trailer, but you can still get a glimpse of the film with Mads and his beard.
- 10/13/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Bouncing between Hollywood projects and films in his native country of Denmark, Mads Mikkelsen continues to carve out an impressive career. Following his reteam with Thomas Vinterberg in the TIFF highlight Another Round, his next Danish production finds him collaborating with writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen once again after Men & Chicken a few years back.
The dark comedy Riders of Justice follows military man Markus (Mikkelsen), who returns home to his teenage daughter after his wife dies in a tragic train accident. But when a passenger on the wrecked train surfaces with claims of foul play, Markus begins to suspect the accident may have been a carefully orchestrated assassination.
While not yet picked up for U.S. distribution, it’ll arrive in Denmark this December, and now the first teaser had landed. Watch below for the film also starring Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Gustav Lindh and Andrea H Gadeberg.
The dark comedy Riders of Justice follows military man Markus (Mikkelsen), who returns home to his teenage daughter after his wife dies in a tragic train accident. But when a passenger on the wrecked train surfaces with claims of foul play, Markus begins to suspect the accident may have been a carefully orchestrated assassination.
While not yet picked up for U.S. distribution, it’ll arrive in Denmark this December, and now the first teaser had landed. Watch below for the film also starring Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Gustav Lindh and Andrea H Gadeberg.
- 10/8/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Danish dark comedy is directed by Anders Thomas Jensen
TrustNordisk has closed the first crop of deals on Danish dark comedy Riders of Justice, directed by Anders Thomas Jensen and starring frequent collaborator Mads Mikkelsen.
The film has sold to Germany and Austria (Splendid); Russia and Cis (Cappella); Benelux (September); Baltics (Estin); Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe); Poland (Best Film); Hungary (Vertigo Media); and Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia & Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia (Cinemania Groupicon).
The story centres on military man Markus (Mikkelsen), who returns home to his teenage daughter after his wife dies in a tragic train accident. But...
TrustNordisk has closed the first crop of deals on Danish dark comedy Riders of Justice, directed by Anders Thomas Jensen and starring frequent collaborator Mads Mikkelsen.
The film has sold to Germany and Austria (Splendid); Russia and Cis (Cappella); Benelux (September); Baltics (Estin); Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe); Poland (Best Film); Hungary (Vertigo Media); and Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia & Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia (Cinemania Groupicon).
The story centres on military man Markus (Mikkelsen), who returns home to his teenage daughter after his wife dies in a tragic train accident. But...
- 10/5/2020
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Produced by Danish outfit Zentropa, shooting on the €5.3m feature began this week.
Mads Mikkelsen is to star in Riders Of Justice, a dark comedy written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, which will be sold internationally by TrustNordisk.
Jensen is perhaps best known as the screenwriter behind Susanne Bier’s Oscar-winning In a Better World but has directed features including Men & Chicken, Adam’s Apples, The Green Butchers and Flickering Lights – all of which starred Mikkelsen.
The cast of his latest feature also includes Nikolaj Lie Kaas, star of the Department Q franchise, Lars Brygmann (That Time Of Year...
Mads Mikkelsen is to star in Riders Of Justice, a dark comedy written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, which will be sold internationally by TrustNordisk.
Jensen is perhaps best known as the screenwriter behind Susanne Bier’s Oscar-winning In a Better World but has directed features including Men & Chicken, Adam’s Apples, The Green Butchers and Flickering Lights – all of which starred Mikkelsen.
The cast of his latest feature also includes Nikolaj Lie Kaas, star of the Department Q franchise, Lars Brygmann (That Time Of Year...
- 1/14/2020
- by ¬0¦Thomas Messner¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Mads Mikkelsen is set to headline the dark comedy “Riders of Justice” written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, the well-known Danish helmer and screenwriter of Susanne Bier’s Oscar-winning “In a Better World.”
Mikkelsen will star in the film alongside Nikolaj Lie Kaas (“The Department Q Series”), Lars Brygmann (“That Time of the Year), Nicolas Bro (“Nymphomaniac”), Gustav Lindh (“Queen of Hearts”), Roland Møller (“Valhalla”) and the newcomer Andrea Heick Gadeberg (“Daniel”).
The story revolves Markus, a deployed military man who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck – but it turns out that it might have been a carefully orchestrated assassination, which his wife ended up being a random casualty of.
Produced by leading Scandinavian company Zentropa, the €5.3 million movie is represented in international markets by TrustNordisk which is describing the...
Mikkelsen will star in the film alongside Nikolaj Lie Kaas (“The Department Q Series”), Lars Brygmann (“That Time of the Year), Nicolas Bro (“Nymphomaniac”), Gustav Lindh (“Queen of Hearts”), Roland Møller (“Valhalla”) and the newcomer Andrea Heick Gadeberg (“Daniel”).
The story revolves Markus, a deployed military man who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck – but it turns out that it might have been a carefully orchestrated assassination, which his wife ended up being a random casualty of.
Produced by leading Scandinavian company Zentropa, the €5.3 million movie is represented in international markets by TrustNordisk which is describing the...
- 1/14/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Mist star Danica Curcic is to front Netflix’s Danish original Equinox.
Curcic, who played Mia Lambert in Spike TV’s adaptation of the Stephen King novella, is joined by Viola Martinsen (When The Dust Settles), Lars Brygmann (Dicte) and Hanne Hedelund (Borgen) in the six-part series.
The series is a remake of podcast Equinox 1985 and was created by Tea Lindeburg. It is exec produced by The Killing commissioner Piv Bernth and her ITV Studios-backed company Apple Tree Productions and produced by Dorthe Riis Lauridsen. It is directed by Søren Balle.
Filming has begun on the series, which is a character-driven supernatural thriller about young woman Astrid (Danica Curcic), who is very affected by the unexplainable disappearance of her sister and her school class in 1999. The series is set in Denmark and swipes back and forth between 1999, where it all started, and the present time.
Astrid is only...
Curcic, who played Mia Lambert in Spike TV’s adaptation of the Stephen King novella, is joined by Viola Martinsen (When The Dust Settles), Lars Brygmann (Dicte) and Hanne Hedelund (Borgen) in the six-part series.
The series is a remake of podcast Equinox 1985 and was created by Tea Lindeburg. It is exec produced by The Killing commissioner Piv Bernth and her ITV Studios-backed company Apple Tree Productions and produced by Dorthe Riis Lauridsen. It is directed by Søren Balle.
Filming has begun on the series, which is a character-driven supernatural thriller about young woman Astrid (Danica Curcic), who is very affected by the unexplainable disappearance of her sister and her school class in 1999. The series is set in Denmark and swipes back and forth between 1999, where it all started, and the present time.
Astrid is only...
- 12/18/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The film about the 2015 Copenhagen terrororist attack is in post.
Screen can exclusively reveal the first-look image from Ole Christian Madsen’s forthcoming feature The Day We Died, now in post.
The story follows four people connected to the February 2015 terrorist attacks in Copenhagen: two victims, the radicalised homegrown terrorist and the Swat team leader who shot the terrorist. The latter is played by Game Of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
This image shows Lars Brygmann, whose credits include Borgen and That Time Of Year, playing Finn Nørgaard, the Danish filmmaker killed in the attacks.
“I realised if I could have...
Screen can exclusively reveal the first-look image from Ole Christian Madsen’s forthcoming feature The Day We Died, now in post.
The story follows four people connected to the February 2015 terrorist attacks in Copenhagen: two victims, the radicalised homegrown terrorist and the Swat team leader who shot the terrorist. The latter is played by Game Of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
This image shows Lars Brygmann, whose credits include Borgen and That Time Of Year, playing Finn Nørgaard, the Danish filmmaker killed in the attacks.
“I realised if I could have...
- 11/10/2019
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Last year, Danish, Icelandic and Norwegian films triumphed with local audiences, fueling general attendance. In Sweden, local fare also upped their share of an overall sluggish market, while Finland had a quieter year after a record 2017. Everywhere “Mamma Mia-Here We Go Again” was number one except in Denmark where local films were back in favor.
Denmark
After two years of slide, Danish films were back in favour with local crowds, and boosted general admissions to 13 million (up 4.6%) and box office to Dkk 1.1 billion ($173 million). With 3.8 million admissions (up 34.2% from 2017), representing Dkk 290.9 million ($44.5 million) in revenue, local titles claimed a 29% market share, the success target just set in new Danish Film Agreement for 2019-2023.
“In a country like Denmark with a relatively small feature film production [21 films in 2018], the box office will inevitably vary from one year to the next,” commented Claus Ladegaard, CEO at the Danish Film Institute. The latter welcomed the...
Denmark
After two years of slide, Danish films were back in favour with local crowds, and boosted general admissions to 13 million (up 4.6%) and box office to Dkk 1.1 billion ($173 million). With 3.8 million admissions (up 34.2% from 2017), representing Dkk 290.9 million ($44.5 million) in revenue, local titles claimed a 29% market share, the success target just set in new Danish Film Agreement for 2019-2023.
“In a country like Denmark with a relatively small feature film production [21 films in 2018], the box office will inevitably vary from one year to the next,” commented Claus Ladegaard, CEO at the Danish Film Institute. The latter welcomed the...
- 1/28/2019
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Take a look at the feature "Kursk", directed by Thomas Vinterberg, based on author Robert Moore's "A Time to Die", about the true story of the 2000 'Kursk Submarine' disaster, starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Colin Firth, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, Max von Sydow, Matthias Schweighöfer and Michael Nyqvist:
"...based on the 2000 'K-141' 'Kursk' submarine disaster, with 118 sailors dying, Kursk sank during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea.
"Twenty-three sailors survived, trapped in the sub, desperately waiting for help to arrive, while their oxygen ran out minute-by-minute.
"But the government refused help for five days before agreeing to aid from the Brits and Norwegians..."
Cast also includes Martin Brambach, Guido De Craene, Geoffrey Newland, Danny Van Meenen, Kristof Coenen, Matthias Schweighöfer and Lars Brygmann.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Kursk"...
"...based on the 2000 'K-141' 'Kursk' submarine disaster, with 118 sailors dying, Kursk sank during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea.
"Twenty-three sailors survived, trapped in the sub, desperately waiting for help to arrive, while their oxygen ran out minute-by-minute.
"But the government refused help for five days before agreeing to aid from the Brits and Norwegians..."
Cast also includes Martin Brambach, Guido De Craene, Geoffrey Newland, Danny Van Meenen, Kristof Coenen, Matthias Schweighöfer and Lars Brygmann.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Kursk"...
- 11/8/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
“That Time of Year” refers to Christmas, and it is a given in Danish thesp Paprika Steen’s third directorial feature that the togetherness holidays force on us are a holy pain in the arse, with or without Baby Jesus. That “Families are the best… and the worst!” stance feels more than a bit pat in a dramedy whose crises and insufferable behaviors have a well-made-play calculation even as they’re meant to capture emotional messiness. Nevertheless, this mix of sour comedy and default sentimentality should have some appeal in Scandinavia, where the actors’ familiarity will be a lure. Farther afield, it may stir lesser interest as a foreign-language piece too mainstream, and not original or subtle enough, for art-house audiences.
The theatrical air shouldn’t surprise, as this is the first original feature screenplay for well-established Danish playwright Jakob Weis. Sooner or later, “That Time of Year” will probably...
The theatrical air shouldn’t surprise, as this is the first original feature screenplay for well-established Danish playwright Jakob Weis. Sooner or later, “That Time of Year” will probably...
- 9/21/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to Good Favour, a drama directed by Rebecca Daly that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. The company is eyeing a theatrical release in the first quarter of 2018. Written by Daly and Glenn Montgomery, the film follows a remote Christian community experiencing a crisis of faith that finds new hope in the arrival of a mysterious young man. It stars Vincent Romeo, Lars Brygmann, Clara Rugaard, Alexandre Willaume, Victoria…...
- 12/1/2017
- Deadline
Milad Alami makes feature debut on film whose DoP Sophia Olsson previously shot Sparrows and Volcano.
Swedish-Iranian director Milad Alami has started principal photography on his debut feature The Charmer in Copenhagen.
The film will also shoot at undisclosed locations in the Middle East with a second unit.
The feature is “an intense psychological drama” about a young Iranian man who wants to meet women who can help him stay in Denmark; he falls in love with one woman while another woman’s husband seeks revenge on him.
After a five-week shoot, The Charmer will be delivered in spring 2017.
Alami, who graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2011, won the Danish Robert award for his short Mommy; and his previous short Void starring Lars Mikkelsen played at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.
The script is co-written by Alami with Ingeborg Topsøe, an Nfts graduate who previously wrote Sundance-selected Volume.
“I’ve always...
Swedish-Iranian director Milad Alami has started principal photography on his debut feature The Charmer in Copenhagen.
The film will also shoot at undisclosed locations in the Middle East with a second unit.
The feature is “an intense psychological drama” about a young Iranian man who wants to meet women who can help him stay in Denmark; he falls in love with one woman while another woman’s husband seeks revenge on him.
After a five-week shoot, The Charmer will be delivered in spring 2017.
Alami, who graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2011, won the Danish Robert award for his short Mommy; and his previous short Void starring Lars Mikkelsen played at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.
The script is co-written by Alami with Ingeborg Topsøe, an Nfts graduate who previously wrote Sundance-selected Volume.
“I’ve always...
- 11/15/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Nicolo Donato’s feature about the escape of Danish Jews in 1943 to star Danica Curcic and David Dencik among others.
Brotherhood director Nicolo Donato is to return with Fuglene over sundet, a Second World War film about the escape of Jews from Denmark in October 1943.
The cast includes Danica Curcic, David Dencik, Laura Bro, Jacob Cedergren, Nicolas Bro, Signe Egholm Olsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard and Lars Brygmann.
Scandinavian major Svensk Filmindustri’s Danish subsidiary Sf Film and production entity Sf Film production will produce.
It marks the follow-up to Donato’s neo-Nazi drama, Brotherhood, which won prizes including the Golden Marc’Aurelio Award at the Rome Film Festival in 2009.
Set in 1943, it centres on Arne Itkin, a famous Jewish jazz musician living in Copenhagen with his wife Miriam and their five-year-old son Jacob.
Rumours about deportation of the Danish Jews start to flourish, and when rumors suddenly turn to reality the Itkin-family is forced to flee their...
Brotherhood director Nicolo Donato is to return with Fuglene over sundet, a Second World War film about the escape of Jews from Denmark in October 1943.
The cast includes Danica Curcic, David Dencik, Laura Bro, Jacob Cedergren, Nicolas Bro, Signe Egholm Olsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard and Lars Brygmann.
Scandinavian major Svensk Filmindustri’s Danish subsidiary Sf Film and production entity Sf Film production will produce.
It marks the follow-up to Donato’s neo-Nazi drama, Brotherhood, which won prizes including the Golden Marc’Aurelio Award at the Rome Film Festival in 2009.
Set in 1943, it centres on Arne Itkin, a famous Jewish jazz musician living in Copenhagen with his wife Miriam and their five-year-old son Jacob.
Rumours about deportation of the Danish Jews start to flourish, and when rumors suddenly turn to reality the Itkin-family is forced to flee their...
- 7/3/2015
- ScreenDaily
Slow-burning thrillers are stories that reward patient souls who are willing to wait. They are not for filmgoers who expect instant gratification. Fear Me Not is a fairly well-crafted slow-burn thriller from Denmark, and it keeps viewers guessing how this story will end. What will divide audiences is the ending, which some will see as a brave departure from the predictable and others will see as a let-down.
In Fear Me Not, Mikael (Ulrich Thomsen) is taking a break from work because his life feels out of sync. He is unhappy, but he can’t figure out why. He has a beautiful wife Sigrid (Paprika Steen), an intelligent daughter Selma (Emma Sehested Hoeg), and a comfortable living. His brother-in-law Fredrik (Lars Brygmann) is running a drug trial for a new anti-depressant, and Mikael convinces Fredrik to let him into the study. As the study goes on, Mikael seems more upbeat and energetic,...
In Fear Me Not, Mikael (Ulrich Thomsen) is taking a break from work because his life feels out of sync. He is unhappy, but he can’t figure out why. He has a beautiful wife Sigrid (Paprika Steen), an intelligent daughter Selma (Emma Sehested Hoeg), and a comfortable living. His brother-in-law Fredrik (Lars Brygmann) is running a drug trial for a new anti-depressant, and Mikael convinces Fredrik to let him into the study. As the study goes on, Mikael seems more upbeat and energetic,...
- 1/4/2011
- by Rachel Kolb
- JustPressPlay.net
A Nordic creepfest the Coen brothers might admire.
Jakob Cedergren in "Terribly Happy"
Photo: Oscilloscope Pictures
Talk about tough towns. The remote village that Copenhagen cop Robert Hansen finds himself transferred to in "Terribly Happy" is more than just unwelcoming: It's deeply creepy. The marshal who preceded Hansen in this one-man-police-force job has disappeared, for some unexplained reason, and the rustics who congregate at the local tavern whisper and leer whenever the new arrival walks in — they seem to know more about him than they really should. There's also a little girl who walks the empty streets in the dead of night pushing a baby-less stroller; and in a desolate bog on the outskirts of town, somebody's car is slowly sinking into the muck.
The movie is wonderfully warped. There are overtones of horror and noirish depravity that recall both the 1973 cult film "The Wicker Man" and Shirley Jackson's famous 1948 short story,...
Jakob Cedergren in "Terribly Happy"
Photo: Oscilloscope Pictures
Talk about tough towns. The remote village that Copenhagen cop Robert Hansen finds himself transferred to in "Terribly Happy" is more than just unwelcoming: It's deeply creepy. The marshal who preceded Hansen in this one-man-police-force job has disappeared, for some unexplained reason, and the rustics who congregate at the local tavern whisper and leer whenever the new arrival walks in — they seem to know more about him than they really should. There's also a little girl who walks the empty streets in the dead of night pushing a baby-less stroller; and in a desolate bog on the outskirts of town, somebody's car is slowly sinking into the muck.
The movie is wonderfully warped. There are overtones of horror and noirish depravity that recall both the 1973 cult film "The Wicker Man" and Shirley Jackson's famous 1948 short story,...
- 2/12/2010
- MTV Movie News
By Harvey Karten - Sophisticated moviegoers know that January is the month that finds the big Hollywood studios dumping their turkeys on the public. This notorious reputation, however, does not apply to indies released by smaller studios or foreign offerings, many of which can be as compelling as the celluloid released during the prestigious months of November and December. .Terribly Happy. is, happily, one of those foreign pictures good enough to be Oscar-considered: in fact it is Denmark.s entry into the Academy Awards race for movies distributed during 2009.
While the bloated, $450 million .Avatar. is breaking records on IMAX screens and just about everywhere in the free world, a patron can gain just as much satisfaction from a far, far lower-budgeted choice like .Frygtelig lykkelig,. as Henrik Ruben Genz.s feature is known in its original Danish.
Oscilloscope Pictures
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: B+
Directed by:...
While the bloated, $450 million .Avatar. is breaking records on IMAX screens and just about everywhere in the free world, a patron can gain just as much satisfaction from a far, far lower-budgeted choice like .Frygtelig lykkelig,. as Henrik Ruben Genz.s feature is known in its original Danish.
Oscilloscope Pictures
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: B+
Directed by:...
- 1/6/2010
- Arizona Reporter
If The Shining taught us one thing, it's that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. In the atmospheric thriller Fear Me Not, the other side of that equation is unnervingly laid out: all play and no work yields the same result.
Mikael Neumann (Ulrich Thomsen) has been on leave from his job for six weeks when the film begins, a fact he reports to us in the somber-voiced narration that represents his diary. What sort of work he did, and why he went on leave, we don't know. Whatever it was, he has done well for himself. He and his architect wife, Sigrid (Paprika Steen), and teenage daughter, Selma (Emma Sehstede Hoeg), live in a gorgeous modern home on a picturesque lake.
Like many in his situation, Mikael has had a hard time adjusting to not working: the unstructured days, the lack of purpose. Sigrid is...
Mikael Neumann (Ulrich Thomsen) has been on leave from his job for six weeks when the film begins, a fact he reports to us in the somber-voiced narration that represents his diary. What sort of work he did, and why he went on leave, we don't know. Whatever it was, he has done well for himself. He and his architect wife, Sigrid (Paprika Steen), and teenage daughter, Selma (Emma Sehstede Hoeg), live in a gorgeous modern home on a picturesque lake.
Like many in his situation, Mikael has had a hard time adjusting to not working: the unstructured days, the lack of purpose. Sigrid is...
- 4/26/2009
- by Eric D. Snider
- Cinematical
Fear Me Not, the English title that has been applied to Danish director/co-writer Kristian Levring’s new film (currently playing at the Tribeca Film Festival, and available on-demand from IFC Films in June), is clearly meant to be ironic. But the movie’s original moniker, Den Du Frygter (What You Fear), is even more pointed: While protagonist Mikael Neumann (Ulrich Thomsen) becomes someone to be scared of, it is his own hidden anxieties that push him into that situation.
As the film opens, Mikael has taken a leave of absence from his job and has been spending more time at home with his wife Sigrid (Paprika Steen) and teenage daughter Selma (Emma Sehested Høeg). It’s all very peaceful and Mikael should be content, but he begins to worry that he’s becoming too complacent, that his life is becoming empty and lacks excitement. When his brother-in-law Frederik (Lars Brygmann...
As the film opens, Mikael has taken a leave of absence from his job and has been spending more time at home with his wife Sigrid (Paprika Steen) and teenage daughter Selma (Emma Sehested Høeg). It’s all very peaceful and Mikael should be content, but he begins to worry that he’s becoming too complacent, that his life is becoming empty and lacks excitement. When his brother-in-law Frederik (Lars Brygmann...
- 4/24/2009
- Fangoria
Pusan International Film Festival
BUSAN, South Korea -- Jannik Johansen's White Night, like the Danish director's psychological thriller Murk, is a character study, here of a successful real estate agent on a downward spiral after an accidental homicide. In the same way Johansen incrementally increased the tension in his earlier pseudo-mystery, he slowly tracks the protagonist's rocky path to healing.
International film festival play is a surety for White Night, and moderate success at home in Denmark is likely. The film also could find audiences in urban markets for distributors willing to take the chance on this small gem.
After closing another big land sale, Ulrik (Lars Brygmann) goes out with some colleagues for drinks, where they happen upon a surly barfly who starts a fight. Some pushing and shoving result in a devastating fall that kills the man. Ulrik is arrested and held overnight but released when the cause of death is determined accidental. Ulrik tries to return to his old life with his glamorous wife, Camilla Anne Sophie Byder), but can't get past an intensifying sense of guilt.
To this end, Ulrik buys a new home for the dead man's impoverished widow, Karina Rikke Louise Andersson), and her two children. Uncomfortable as she is with Ulrik's motives, Karina accepts his generosity at the urging of her sister. Nonetheless, Ulrik slowly alienates those around him, beginning with Camilla, moving on to his shallow friends and co-workers and his lawyer brother, Bertel (Nicolas Bro). Hovering in the background and compounding Ulrik's anguish is the strained relationship with his father, Jacob (Morten Grunwald).
Brygmann, last seen in Clash of Egos, brings the appropriate combination of hangdog sadness and simmering anger to Ulrik, allowing his shifting emotions to come to the fore. Bro, who starred as the widower in Mork, is excellent in his few scenes as the brother caught between estranged family members. Watching him barely flinch when Ulrik hurls abuse at him is a lesson in emotional control.
Ulrik's life is almost impressionistically shot in icy blues (by Jens Maasbol) whenever he confronts his guilt, and in bright color for the world that lies outside his dilemma. If there's a fault in the film, written by its director and veteran filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen, it's the brief running time. At a compact 96 minutes, Ulrik's crushing burden and subsequent change of heart come on rather swiftly with pat logic and expository dialogue that can come across as lecturing, such as Ulrik's realization about the lack of ethics in his work. It's a point bluntly stated as opposed to intuited in this otherwise cerebral film.
WHITE NIGHT
A Nimbus Film, Fine & Mellow production
Credits:
Director: Jannik Johansen
Screenwriters: Anders Thomas Jensen, Jannik Johansen
Producer: Brigitte Skov, Morten Kaufmann
Director of photography: Jens Maasbøl
Production designer: Charlotte Bech
Music: Jens Unmack, Nikolaj Norlund
Editor: Per K. Kirkegaard
Cast:
Ulrik: Lars Brygmann
Karina: Rikke Louise Andersson
Bertel: Nicolas Bro
Jacob: Morten Grunwald
Camilla: Anne Sophie Byder
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
BUSAN, South Korea -- Jannik Johansen's White Night, like the Danish director's psychological thriller Murk, is a character study, here of a successful real estate agent on a downward spiral after an accidental homicide. In the same way Johansen incrementally increased the tension in his earlier pseudo-mystery, he slowly tracks the protagonist's rocky path to healing.
International film festival play is a surety for White Night, and moderate success at home in Denmark is likely. The film also could find audiences in urban markets for distributors willing to take the chance on this small gem.
After closing another big land sale, Ulrik (Lars Brygmann) goes out with some colleagues for drinks, where they happen upon a surly barfly who starts a fight. Some pushing and shoving result in a devastating fall that kills the man. Ulrik is arrested and held overnight but released when the cause of death is determined accidental. Ulrik tries to return to his old life with his glamorous wife, Camilla Anne Sophie Byder), but can't get past an intensifying sense of guilt.
To this end, Ulrik buys a new home for the dead man's impoverished widow, Karina Rikke Louise Andersson), and her two children. Uncomfortable as she is with Ulrik's motives, Karina accepts his generosity at the urging of her sister. Nonetheless, Ulrik slowly alienates those around him, beginning with Camilla, moving on to his shallow friends and co-workers and his lawyer brother, Bertel (Nicolas Bro). Hovering in the background and compounding Ulrik's anguish is the strained relationship with his father, Jacob (Morten Grunwald).
Brygmann, last seen in Clash of Egos, brings the appropriate combination of hangdog sadness and simmering anger to Ulrik, allowing his shifting emotions to come to the fore. Bro, who starred as the widower in Mork, is excellent in his few scenes as the brother caught between estranged family members. Watching him barely flinch when Ulrik hurls abuse at him is a lesson in emotional control.
Ulrik's life is almost impressionistically shot in icy blues (by Jens Maasbol) whenever he confronts his guilt, and in bright color for the world that lies outside his dilemma. If there's a fault in the film, written by its director and veteran filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen, it's the brief running time. At a compact 96 minutes, Ulrik's crushing burden and subsequent change of heart come on rather swiftly with pat logic and expository dialogue that can come across as lecturing, such as Ulrik's realization about the lack of ethics in his work. It's a point bluntly stated as opposed to intuited in this otherwise cerebral film.
WHITE NIGHT
A Nimbus Film, Fine & Mellow production
Credits:
Director: Jannik Johansen
Screenwriters: Anders Thomas Jensen, Jannik Johansen
Producer: Brigitte Skov, Morten Kaufmann
Director of photography: Jens Maasbøl
Production designer: Charlotte Bech
Music: Jens Unmack, Nikolaj Norlund
Editor: Per K. Kirkegaard
Cast:
Ulrik: Lars Brygmann
Karina: Rikke Louise Andersson
Bertel: Nicolas Bro
Jacob: Morten Grunwald
Camilla: Anne Sophie Byder
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/8/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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