Sex, Drugs & Taxation
Written by Christoffer Boe and Simon Pasternak
Directed by Christoffer Boe
Denmark, 2013
Sex, Drugs & Taxation begins with a title card warning us that though much of this story is true, many aspects are also untrue. The film is director Christoffer Boe’s exploration of the way memory can be molded and reconstructed. In it, the memory in question is that of society as a whole (or in this case, Denmark as a stand-in for society at large), shaped and reshaped to paint a particular portrait of two public figures.
The figures in question are Simon Spies (Pilou Asbæk) and Mogens Glistrup (Nicolas Bro), two real-life figures from 1960s Denmark. Spies was a millionaire playboy, not unlike Howard Hughes, who became known to everyone in Denmark when he created the country’s first cheap airline with the help of his mousy tax lawyer, Glistrup. The film chronicles their weird,...
Written by Christoffer Boe and Simon Pasternak
Directed by Christoffer Boe
Denmark, 2013
Sex, Drugs & Taxation begins with a title card warning us that though much of this story is true, many aspects are also untrue. The film is director Christoffer Boe’s exploration of the way memory can be molded and reconstructed. In it, the memory in question is that of society as a whole (or in this case, Denmark as a stand-in for society at large), shaped and reshaped to paint a particular portrait of two public figures.
The figures in question are Simon Spies (Pilou Asbæk) and Mogens Glistrup (Nicolas Bro), two real-life figures from 1960s Denmark. Spies was a millionaire playboy, not unlike Howard Hughes, who became known to everyone in Denmark when he created the country’s first cheap airline with the help of his mousy tax lawyer, Glistrup. The film chronicles their weird,...
- 9/19/2013
- by Laura Holtebrinck
- SoundOnSight
Just as you are unlikely to ever come across a more unlikely friendship than that which blossomed between browbeaten tax lawyer Mogens Glistrup and hedonist playboy Simon Spies through the 1960s in Denmark, you are equally unlikely to settle on a more unlikely filmmaker than Christoffer Boe to tell their story. Best known for serious fare that treads the line between arthouse and genre film while toying with ideas of love, memory and obsession, Boe here tackles a real life story of sex, drugs and discount airlines and the results are utterly compelling.Nicolas Bro (Adam's Apples) plays Mogens Glistrup, an intelligent but intensely socially awkward tax lawyer desperate to escape from the shadow of his overbearing father in law when he encounters his old school...
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- 9/8/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Christoffer Boe – Sex Drugs & Taxation
Section: Vanguard
Dates: Saturday 7th, Sunday 8th, Friday 13th
Buzz: Originally titled Spies & Gilstrup, Danish filmmaker Christoffer Boe has been steadily making films since his successful Cannes premiered 2003 debut, Reconstruction, which still stands as his best known work and starred Maria Bonnevie and Nikolaj Lee Kaas. While Boe seems to recycle many of his cast members (including Kaas and Nicolas Bro), his projects are often offbeat, intriguingly styled, and notably acted. Sadly, Boe’s last feature, 2011’s Beast, which was described as a cross between Alien and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on the fest circuit, never saw a theatrical release here, though it’s yet another subdued examination of the literal manifestations of grotesque happenings brought about by the excess of human emotion. His latest, which stars Bro and Jesper Christiensen is a sort of period piece biopic, so we’re certain this...
Section: Vanguard
Dates: Saturday 7th, Sunday 8th, Friday 13th
Buzz: Originally titled Spies & Gilstrup, Danish filmmaker Christoffer Boe has been steadily making films since his successful Cannes premiered 2003 debut, Reconstruction, which still stands as his best known work and starred Maria Bonnevie and Nikolaj Lee Kaas. While Boe seems to recycle many of his cast members (including Kaas and Nicolas Bro), his projects are often offbeat, intriguingly styled, and notably acted. Sadly, Boe’s last feature, 2011’s Beast, which was described as a cross between Alien and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on the fest circuit, never saw a theatrical release here, though it’s yet another subdued examination of the literal manifestations of grotesque happenings brought about by the excess of human emotion. His latest, which stars Bro and Jesper Christiensen is a sort of period piece biopic, so we’re certain this...
- 9/2/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Tiff’s Midnight Madness selection is usually where we find all of the horror films, but the Vanguard selection features Ti West’s latest film, The Sacrament, and Alexandre Aja’s Horns, starring Daniel Radcliffe:
“Toronto — The Toronto International Film Festival® Vanguard programme takes audiences on a sensory rollercoaster ride with boundary-pushing international works that are bold and bodacious. Curated by international programmer Colin Geddes, this lineup brings the best in genre and arthouse together for a cinematic odyssey that eludes conventional definition.
“From revenge and ruin to sex, drugs and taxation, this programme challenges audiences to go places that noaudience has gone before,” said Geddes. “Where Midnight Madness opens up audiences to a world of fear and fantasy, Vanguard plunges them into a confrontational and unnerving one that sometimes comes a bit too close to reality for comfort.”
The Vanguard roster features a provocative partnership between Ti West (The House of the Devil,...
“Toronto — The Toronto International Film Festival® Vanguard programme takes audiences on a sensory rollercoaster ride with boundary-pushing international works that are bold and bodacious. Curated by international programmer Colin Geddes, this lineup brings the best in genre and arthouse together for a cinematic odyssey that eludes conventional definition.
“From revenge and ruin to sex, drugs and taxation, this programme challenges audiences to go places that noaudience has gone before,” said Geddes. “Where Midnight Madness opens up audiences to a world of fear and fantasy, Vanguard plunges them into a confrontational and unnerving one that sometimes comes a bit too close to reality for comfort.”
The Vanguard roster features a provocative partnership between Ti West (The House of the Devil,...
- 7/30/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
A man exposing himself to a gorilla is not what I would typically expect to see in the trailer for a new film by Christoffer Boe but evidently this is what happens when the director of Reconstruction, Beast, and Offscreen tackles the real life story of Mogens Glistrup and Simon Spies - a politician and travel magnate whose friendship would eventually lead to scandal.The true story about the spectacular friendship between two notorious and provocative Danes: the eccentric lawyer-turned-politician Mogens Glistrup, and the "travel king", millionaire, womanizer and public provocateur, Simon Spies. Despite their different ways of life Glistrup and Spies become best friends, and together they turn Spies Travels into one of most profitable travel agencies in Scandinavia in the 1960s and 1970s. They...
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- 6/4/2013
- Screen Anarchy
A long time favorite here at Twitch, director Christoffer Boe is taking a sharp turn into some different territory with his next film and he's taking a pair of our favorite actors - Nicolas Bro and Pilou Asbaek - with him.Having built his name with a string of pictures that fuse arthouse and genre sensibilities, Boe's latest - titled Sex, Drugs and Taxation - moves into biopic territory, charting the friendship of a famous Danish politician and businessman.The true story about the spectacular friendship between two notorious and provocative Danes: the eccentric lawyer-turned-politician Mogens Glistrup, and the "travel king", millionaire, womanizer and public provocateur, Simon Spies. Despite their different ways of life Glistrup and Spies become best friends, and together they turn Spies Travels into...
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- 4/3/2013
- Screen Anarchy
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