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Can a film be both too long and too short? If so,
Into the Darkness definitely fits the bill. Anders Refn’s long-nurtured family epic follows Karl Skov (Jesper Christensen, more famous as a Bond villain), a self-made Danish industrialist who struggles with his conscience when his country surrenders to Germany in 1940.
Can a film be both too long and too short? If so,
Into the Darkness definitely fits the bill. Anders Refn’s long-nurtured family epic follows Karl Skov (Jesper Christensen, more famous as a Bond villain), a self-made Danish industrialist who struggles with his conscience when his country surrenders to Germany in 1940. Should Skov refuse to manufacture the goods required by his new masters and risk losing not only his comfortable home but also deprive his loyal workers of their livelihood too? And what choices should his sons and daughter make about who they consort with and whether to stay in the military, now its been co-opted by the Nazis? �
Movie review: Another Round
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Dominic Corry is an entertainment writer and film critic based in Los Angeles.@DominicCorry Actor Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal) and filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg (Festen), Danish collaborators on the amazing 2012 film The Hunt, reteam for this alternately joyous and mordant movie about the alarming approach some friends employ to tackle mid-life malaise.
Mikkelsen stars as Martin, one of four high school teachers lamenting the lack of lustre in their lives. When one cites a psychiatrist who theorised that humans are born with a blood alcohol content deficiency, they all agree to follow his teachings and proceed to microdose booze throughout the work day, maintaining a low level of intoxication in the name of loosening up and embracing life.