The best links and resources to films from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. From Ingmar Bergman to Lars van Trier.
Together - Lukas Moodysson's Together - a Review. Lukas Moodysson's lovely swedish film "Together" (Tillsammans) is set in a Swedish hippie commune. Jurgen Fauth review.
Just Another Love Story review - Just Another Love Story, a dark, romantic thriller from one of Scandinavia's seminal directors, Ole Bornedal. Anders Bertelsen (MIFUNE, ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS), Nikolai Lie Kaas (THE IDIOTS), Rebecka Hemse and Charlotte Fich star.
Troubled Water review - Erik Poppe's Troubled Water review, a story of redemption, won the two top prizes at the Hamptons Film Festival: the Golden Starfish for Best Narrative Feature and the Audience Water. Actress Trine Dyrholm is true discovery.
Widely considered to be one of Ingmar Bergman's best film, "The Seventh Seal" (1957) tells the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) across a plague-ridden landscape, where he is challenged by Death to a game of chess.
Paul Verhoeven's "Black Book," which did big business in Holland and arrives here with the cachet of an acclaimed foreign film about the Holocaust, would be plain-old kitsch if it didn’t cash in on the suffering of millions to get its low-brow action-adventure kicks.
Aki Kaurismäki's Lights in the Dusk concludes the trilogy began by Drifting Clouds and The Man Without a Past. The film opens in NY on June 13th, 2007.
Susanne Bier's Oscar-nominated film tells the story of a Jacob, a Danish man who after a twenty year absence, returns home to receive funds for the orphanage in India he runs. Many secrets await him. Wonderful, rich, human performances by Mads Mikkelsen (“Casino Royale”), Rolf Lassgård and Sidse Babett Knudsen. THe film opens March 30, 2007.
With the second part of his US trilogy, Lars Von Trier's "Manderlay" returns to the story of the tragic American martyr. Dallas Bryce Howard replaces Nicole Kidman in the role of Grace, continuing the saga of the long suffering woman, this time on a Southern plantation.
In Suzanne Bier's melodrama "Brothers," a broken soldier returns from engagement in Afghanistan to find that nothing is the same. Connie Nielson (Gladiator, Demonlover) makes her Danish feature debut.
Aki Kaurismäki's "The Man Without a Past"
Review of the Criterion Collection DVD of Ingmar Bergman's "Smiles of a Summer Night"
Lars von Trier challenges veteran filmmaker Jorgen Leth to a director's game in this fascinating metafilm. Review by Jurgen Fauth.
Profoundly unsettling, exceedingly well acted, and crowned with a breathtaking climax.
This movie made me cry and cry and cry. Written and directed by Lars Von Trier. Academy award nominated Emily Watson was amazing in this film.
Watch this film and feel grateful for your family. Thomas Vinterberg's film won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 1998. The first film made under the rule of Dogme 95.
Lars Von Trier's musical starring Bjork won the prestigious Palme d'Or at Cannes 2000.
Lars Von Trier's new film is a work of genius. Nicole Kidman leads the illustrious cast in the volatile tale of American goodwill and greed by one of the world's most adventurous directors.
This quirky and touching Dutch comedy, one of the 2001 Academy Awards nominees for Best Foreign Film, is one of the funniest movies of the year.
Lars Von Trier is back. This film took two years to make it to the States after its premiere at Cannes.
Lone Scherfig's Dogme film is an unlikely success: a romantic comedy from Denmark, filmed with handheld cameras and without swelling theme music. The result is an honest and touching film.
Inspired by a 1950s study in Sweden about the daily lives of housewives, Bent Hamer's Danish comedy focuses on a fictional analysis of single men, in which scientists attempt to watch their subjects without interacting with them.
Lukas Moodyson, whose "Together" was the best and warmest film of 2000, is back -- with one of the most depressing movies ever made.
Aki Kaurismäki delivers a marvelously droll film that's as quiet as it is touching, funny, and sweet.
Before Swedish director Lasse Hallström got lost in Hollywood, he struck a true chord with the 1986 classic about a sensitive boy who likes to compare himself to Russian space dog Laika.
Ulf Malmros' hip, dark crime comedy from Sweden "Slim Susie" is out on DVD. When beauty queen Susie disappears from her small town, her older brother returns from Stockholm to discover the whereabouts of his sweet little sister.
Restore your faith in humanity with "Together," a wonderfully warm and colorful look at a Swedish hippie commune.
Directed by Colin Nutley, this film was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 1999 Academy Awards.
