![]() Though they’re an ostensibly enviable family, Peter confesses to wishing Anne were a little more submissive, while both partners are wedded to their jobs first and foremost. remake of “Queen of Hearts” while watching it.)Īt a leisurely 127 minutes, the film takes time to build its crisis, while dropping hints from the off that something is rotten in, if not the state of Denmark, at least the state-of-the-art Danish home that Anne shares with her Swedish husband Peter (Magnus Krepper), an equally high-flying doctor, and their adorable twin girls. (Meanwhile, you can practically envisage a Robin Wright-starring U.S. You can’t quite turn away from it even as you don’t quite believe it: That will carry el-Toukhy’s sophomore feature (formally, a sizable step up from her 2015 romantic comedy “Long Story Short,” also featuring Dyrholm) far on the international arthouse circuit, and ought to net the interest of international producers in the director’s next move. In a conversation piece pitched halfway between the delicate Sirkian tragedy and Adrian Lyne at his most sensational, it’s the overridingly controlled nature of proceedings - from performance to production design - that keeps “Queen of Hearts” from sliding into the hysterical silliness that its provocations invite. Her finely shifting body language and simultaneously knowing, querying gaze go a long way toward making in-the-moment sense of an intelligent character’s most brazenly stupid decisions, even as we begin to suspect that the script, by el-Toukhy and Maren Louise Käehn, may be as bemused by her as we are. © 2013 – 2023 All Rights Reserved - Any content reblogged or taken from I'm Jeffrey Rex must adhere to the terms of © Copyright Archives Archives Tags 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Academy Awards Adam Driver amc Ant-Man Avengers Awards Batman BCS Benedict Cumberbatch Better Call Saul Black Panther Bob Odenkirk BOP Box Office Box Office Predictions Breaking Bad Captain America Chuck McGill Comedy Dagobah Day DC Disney Documentary Episode Review Film Review Giancarlo Esposito Guardians of the Galaxy Gus Fring HBO HBO Nordic Horror Iron Man Jeffrey Wright Jimmy McGill Jonathan Banks Kevin Feige Kim Wexler Mads Mikkelsen Mark Margolis Martin Scorsese Marvel Marvel Cinematic Universe Marvelous Monday Marvel Studios MCU Michael Mando Michael McKean Mike Ehrmantraut Movie Review Netflix News Oscars Patrick Fabian Predictions Retro Review Review Rhea Seehorn Saul Goodman Season Review Special Features Spider-Man Star Wars Thriller TV Review Vince Gilligan Warner Bros.That this approach holds water for as long as it does comes largely down to the sharp, subtle gifts of Dyrholm, one of those actors who truly has to strain for a false note. Continue reading “REVIEW: Retfærdighedens Ryttere (2020)” → It is strange to say this, but, in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, this has been a remarkably strong year for the Danish film industry. Now, this week, Anders Thomas Jensen’s black comedy Retfærdighedens Ryttere has been released in Denmark. ![]() Then, not too long ago, Thomas Vinterberg’s near-masterpiece Druk was released to rave reviews, and it has almost single-handedly revived Danish movie theaters. It all began with Mikkel Nørgaard’s Klovn: The Final, which is a continuation of arguably Denmark’s most popular comedy series of the last two decades. This year has produced several event films, so to speak, in my home country. ![]() It is quite extraordinary that in a year like 2020, which has seen a global pandemic severely damage the film industry and movie theaters all around the world, somehow the Danish film industry has thrived. ‘Retfærdighedens Ryttere / Riders of Justice,’ Promotional Still Image - Photo by Rolf Konow - Nordisk Film.ĭirected by Anders Thomas Jensen - Screenplay by Anders Thomas Jensen. ![]()
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