Denmark
Posted March 24, 2009, 18:03 ET
I have begun watching Danish films, the hook being the scores by Johan Soderqvist. For their earnest, humorless moralizing, their determined effort to exclude any possibility of joy from life, they surpass even Canadian films. Here’s a review of Festen (1998) from IMDB:
I have seen this film more than I’ve bothered to keep track of. That’s not to say that I’ve seen it an unusual amount of times(it’s probably not more than three), just that I’ve never bothered to keep track. Anyway, my point is, every time, it’s like seeing it for the first time. I keep discovering things that I must have noticed before, but don’t remember seeing earlier. Tonight, I finally realized why; I’m blocking them out. I’m blocking out almost every single second of this film, and here’s why; it reminds me of everything I hate about Denmark and being Danish.
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