Watch The Hunt, Antichrist and other great movies for free at the Danish Film Festival
Denmark has produced some of the most important filmmakers in the history of cinema, from Carl Theodor Dreyer to the instigators of Dogme 95 and after. Starting tomorrow you can see the work of recent Danish filmmakers at the Danish Film Festival in Shang Mall.
If you have not seen The Hunt, we recommend you start there. Mads Mikkelsen (TV’s Hannibal) plays a kindergarten employee who is accused of sexually abusing a child. The charge goes viral in the small town, and even after he is cleared of the charge, he has to defend himself against the same friends he used to go hunting with. Mikkelsen won the Best Actor prize at Cannes for his amazing, empathic portrayal. Also, the movie is set during the Xmas season, which makes for great counter programming.
Then you can watch Mikkelsen again in A Royal Affair, a costume drama where he is cast as friend and physician to the unstable King Christian VII. The physician and Queen Caroline Mathilda use their influence over the king to make Denmark a centre of enlightened thought, enraging the aristocracy. Alicia Vikander, who is in every other movie this year, plays the queen.
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December 11th, 2015 at 21:39
When I saw A Royal Affair (at CineEuropa), Anna Karenina, and The Fifth Estate, I didn’t even know who Alicia Vikander was. Now she is a Golden Globe nominee for The Danish Girl.
Babette’s Feast reminds me a bit of another Isak Dinesen story, The Supper at Elsinore from Seven Gothic Tales, but only because the latter is also about two spinster sisters, this time devoted to the memory of a long-dead younger brother. At a time when gorgeous food photography is standard fare on the Internet and in films like Chocolat, Julie and Julia, The Age of Innocence, and the recent Chef and Burnt, Babette’s feast is still gasp-worthy. Love the bleak setting and the priceless reactions of the frugal, puritanical townfolk whose resolve not to enjoy themselves gradually melts as the meal progresses.