Flame & Citron [Flammen & Citronen]: A second Danish film this year that I did not care for. I guess I was hoping for a really compelling World War Two resistance story like Gaston’s War or Black Book, but the performance of Thure Lindhardt in one of the lead roles was just so restrained that I had barely any interest in what the character did or ( Read more... )

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I attended the opening of the Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth tonight at the Vancity theatre, to see the Danish film Drømmen. Literally, the title seems to translate as ‘The Dream’ (referencing the famous speech of Martin Luther King Jr.) but the English title of the film is We Shall OvercomeI liked the film quite a bit. What I ( Read more... )