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Arvingerne (2014)
Brilliant show with amazing characters
I love Danish cinema. They can come up with a story boring as hell on paper and turn it into an amazing and touching film. This is the case with the legacy. When you read the synopsis, you think 'yeah another family dispute, saw it a million times'. You couldn't be further from the truth. I don't know what is their recipe but the characters and atmosphere just take your breath away. It is deep without being pompous.You just feel part of the family, you feel their pain as they do stupid things, it sometimes does not make sense as it does in life. I think this so brilliant, it now has become one of my all-time favorite show. Ever since dogma, Danish cinema and series have discovered something unique. The finale of the Legacy is just perfect, yes perfect. I couldn't have imagined a better one. Please do watch this show.
Big Little Lies (2017)
Promising but shallow as a grave in reality
Seeing its high score on IMDb, I rushed into this show with great expectations. At first, I was caught and started watching. My first impression was that it was going to be like desperate housewives with famous actresses. It is not but not that far after all. The plot is full of inconsistencies and impossible situations (a six-year-old who knows Bowie and only listens to old music ? NO). The character Jane Chapman is just not likable at all (the actress is so annoying and is not good at all), Nicole Kidman is so annoying with her fake mystery and plastic surgery (I came to realise I really can't stand her). Reese Witherspoon is like in all movies she plays in (legally blond like). The end is just grotesque (the raped girl just happened to move in the exact same town as her rapist and befriend her wife ? NO). This show just throws fake wit and intelligence around but it just ends up to be shallow, unreal and ridiculous. You don't feel anything for the characters. Also nothing happens, or let's say that the same scenes keep on coming back (the wife gets beaten up, they have rough sex she feels bad, the adulterous woman feels bad because her life is not so perfect and then goes outside in front of the ocean to explain what she really feels to her husband, the rape victim goes jogging and they all drink coffee...BORING). I'm just so sad I lost time watching this show (at some point I just watched the last scene of episode 7 and laughed) because I was sure that with this type of rating it was going to be awesome. IT IS NOT. I prefer desperate housewives as it does not pretend to be what it is not. Don't WASTE YOUR TIME.
Den skaldede frisør (2012)
Please give me Danish cinema back !
I'm a huge Danish cinema fan. I've seen many movies from that wonderful country. I've never been a huge fan of Susanne Bier but I thought "open hearts" or "brothers" were much better than this one. One of the main issue with this picture is that it was shot in Italy and of course including Pierce Brosnan is the cast was nothing but a huge mistake. He is far too smooth for a Danish film...This movie contains a considerable amount of clichés, the end is so predictable that it becomes unbearable. Every good danish actor is misused, the plot is so terrible that a new word should be invented to describe it. I'm being harsh because I'm afraid Danish cinema is going to lose its touch with people like Susanne Bier. Keep it inside Denmark without trying to get it closer to "general" cinema. As far as I'm concerned, cinema in Denmark is best represented by Festen or Mifune aka Dogma. Every film Danish directors have made outside Denmark with American or English actors (thinking of Thomas Vinterberg's It's all about love : a complete disaster...) has been a complete washout. Please keep on making good films without feeling the pressure to do something else just because people have started to get interested. Nothing much said about this film because it's so poor, nothing is worth mentioning. It's like a bad TV-show without anything of the brutal and realistic intake on human beings you usually see in Danish movies. It's sadly empty...