A Canneseries main competition contender, “The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen” begins with a voiceover from Connie Nielsen reading, in beautifully cadenced Danish, a letter ‘Out of Africa’ author Karen Blixen writes to her mother in 1931.
In it, she expresses the joy Africa has given her, that the family farm she ran has gone bankrupt, and she will soon take her life.
Exquisite shots of Africa play out, meanwhile, on the screen.
It this mix of lush period detail and big production value and a harder economic edge and sustained portrait of a woman’s sentiments and soul – through read letters, dialog confession and Nielsen’s central commanding central performance – that sets “The Dreamer” apart.
Developed from a concept by Nielsen, “The Dreamer” begins when Blixen near ends, economically and emotionally bankrupt after her farm fails and her soulmate, as she calls English aristocrat Denys Finch Hatton, dies in an air...
In it, she expresses the joy Africa has given her, that the family farm she ran has gone bankrupt, and she will soon take her life.
Exquisite shots of Africa play out, meanwhile, on the screen.
It this mix of lush period detail and big production value and a harder economic edge and sustained portrait of a woman’s sentiments and soul – through read letters, dialog confession and Nielsen’s central commanding central performance – that sets “The Dreamer” apart.
Developed from a concept by Nielsen, “The Dreamer” begins when Blixen near ends, economically and emotionally bankrupt after her farm fails and her soulmate, as she calls English aristocrat Denys Finch Hatton, dies in an air...
- 4/5/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
TrustNordisk will handle international sales on the project.
Danish actress Connie Nielsen is playing the lead role in The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen, a new series about one of the country’s most celebrated authors.
The six-part series was filmed in Denmark and internationally, and is currently in post-production, with delivery scheduled for 2022.
Danish sales agency TrustNordisk has acquired international rights to the series, which is produced by Zentropa and Nordic Entertainment Group for Nordic streaming platform Viaplay, as a Viaplay Original title.
The series is created by Dunja Gry Jensen, who previously created Sf Studios’ crime series Norskov; and...
Danish actress Connie Nielsen is playing the lead role in The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen, a new series about one of the country’s most celebrated authors.
The six-part series was filmed in Denmark and internationally, and is currently in post-production, with delivery scheduled for 2022.
Danish sales agency TrustNordisk has acquired international rights to the series, which is produced by Zentropa and Nordic Entertainment Group for Nordic streaming platform Viaplay, as a Viaplay Original title.
The series is created by Dunja Gry Jensen, who previously created Sf Studios’ crime series Norskov; and...
- 11/30/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Fascinating backroom politics circa WWII are undermined by banal marital melodrama in Danish director Christina Rosendahl’s “The Good Traitor,” resulting in a so-so period drama that raises more questions than it answers. The film centers on the life of diplomat-gone-rogue Henrik Kauffmann, who was posted to Washington, D.C., as Danish Ambassador in 1939. When the Nazis occupy Denmark on April 9, 1940, Kauffmann declares himself the only true representative of the free Danish people and goes on to make a number of high-risk autonomous decisions that, in the long run, help to free his homeland. Unfortunately, the details of Kauffmann’s wheeling and dealing are continually undercut by the film’s concentration on his rather unusual personal life, rendered here in trite narrative clichés.
During a long and distinguished foreign service career, Kauffmann enabled the U.S. to install strategic military bases on Greenland (an autonomous territory of Denmark) during WWII.
During a long and distinguished foreign service career, Kauffmann enabled the U.S. to install strategic military bases on Greenland (an autonomous territory of Denmark) during WWII.
- 3/9/2021
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
Iffr’s new artistic director Bero Beyer brings television back to the big screen in Rotterdam.
Following on from the 2013 strand Signals: Changing Channels, Beyer and former Critics’ Week programmer Léo Soesanto have jointly created Episodic/Epidemic - a new strand that highlights filmmakers working within television formats.
The section sits within Perspectives - an over-arching part of the festival Bero considers as “film-making that detours to the left, to the right and upside down of cinema”.
Both Soesanto and Beyer assert it is not another festival trend, which has seen TV strands such as Berlinale’s Special Series and Toronto’s Primetime, but instead an extension of Iffr’s programming.
“This is at the heart of Rotterdam [Iffr] - we want to celebrate all the ways a filmmaker can express themselves. Whether it’s music, art, gaming, Vr or episodic - we want to find the best way to present different types of storytelling,” said Bero.
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Following on from the 2013 strand Signals: Changing Channels, Beyer and former Critics’ Week programmer Léo Soesanto have jointly created Episodic/Epidemic - a new strand that highlights filmmakers working within television formats.
The section sits within Perspectives - an over-arching part of the festival Bero considers as “film-making that detours to the left, to the right and upside down of cinema”.
Both Soesanto and Beyer assert it is not another festival trend, which has seen TV strands such as Berlinale’s Special Series and Toronto’s Primetime, but instead an extension of Iffr’s programming.
“This is at the heart of Rotterdam [Iffr] - we want to celebrate all the ways a filmmaker can express themselves. Whether it’s music, art, gaming, Vr or episodic - we want to find the best way to present different types of storytelling,” said Bero.
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- 1/31/2016
- ScreenDaily
Copenhagen-set time travel thriller set in a world where the oceans have risen.
Global Screen has picked up international sales rights to Far Rung, a sci-fi thriller staring Danish actor Carsten Björnlund (The Legacy, ID:a) and Sofia Helin (The Bridge).
It marks the narrative feature debut of established documentary director Max Kestner.
Filming began last week in Copenhagen. Global Screen will present first images at Afm (American Film Market) in November.
Written by Dunja Gry Jensen (Terribly Happy), the story begins in 2095, in a time when the world has been ravaged by ecological disaster: The oceans have risen, and all natural freshwater has disappeared.
Behind fortified dams, Copenhagen has survived the flood but is facing disaster. As a last resort, the Ministry of Defense agrees to send Fang Rung, the head of scientific security, back in time, to 2015. But when Rung tries to return to the future, he realizes that someone has begun to alter the course...
Global Screen has picked up international sales rights to Far Rung, a sci-fi thriller staring Danish actor Carsten Björnlund (The Legacy, ID:a) and Sofia Helin (The Bridge).
It marks the narrative feature debut of established documentary director Max Kestner.
Filming began last week in Copenhagen. Global Screen will present first images at Afm (American Film Market) in November.
Written by Dunja Gry Jensen (Terribly Happy), the story begins in 2095, in a time when the world has been ravaged by ecological disaster: The oceans have risen, and all natural freshwater has disappeared.
Behind fortified dams, Copenhagen has survived the flood but is facing disaster. As a last resort, the Ministry of Defense agrees to send Fang Rung, the head of scientific security, back in time, to 2015. But when Rung tries to return to the future, he realizes that someone has begun to alter the course...
- 6/1/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Rating: 5/5
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz
Writer: Henrik Ruben Genz and Dunja Gry Jensen
Cast: Jakob Cedergren and Lene Maria Christensen
Sometimes, I love watching a movie and being able to metaphorically see the director filling in the “influences” box on their MySpace. On the one hand, watching Star Wars gets much more interesting after watching Hidden Fortress. Watching George Lucas draw on Akira Kurosawa in a subtle and reverent manner made me respect Lucas that much more. However, it could turn out like Push which was a direct rip off of the television show Heroes. It’s not like either was very good, but seeing the exact same thing rehashed was far from fun.
Read more on Theatrical Review: Terribly Happy…...
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz
Writer: Henrik Ruben Genz and Dunja Gry Jensen
Cast: Jakob Cedergren and Lene Maria Christensen
Sometimes, I love watching a movie and being able to metaphorically see the director filling in the “influences” box on their MySpace. On the one hand, watching Star Wars gets much more interesting after watching Hidden Fortress. Watching George Lucas draw on Akira Kurosawa in a subtle and reverent manner made me respect Lucas that much more. However, it could turn out like Push which was a direct rip off of the television show Heroes. It’s not like either was very good, but seeing the exact same thing rehashed was far from fun.
Read more on Theatrical Review: Terribly Happy…...
- 4/19/2010
- by Will Schiffelbein
- GordonandtheWhale
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz Writers: Henrik Ruben Genz, Dunja Gry Jensen (screenplay), Erling Jepsen (novel) Starring: Jakob Cedergren, Lene Maria Christensen, Kim Bodnia Robert (Jacob Cedergren), a police officer, is being transferred from Copenhagen to Skarrild (a very small village in rural Denmark) after having “just snapped” back in Copenhagen. Robert is being given a second chance in this land of mud, cows and rubber boots where “mojn” (meaning both hello and goodbye) is the typical salutation. Robert soon inherits a cat from previous Marshall who left it behind (the cat also seems to say “mojn”). People seem to just disappear here (the previous Marshall, owner of cycle shop). Does it have something to do with the bog? (In this part of Denmark, the water table is very high. Cows have been known to sink, stay under water for 6 months then give birth to a two-headed calf with human and cow heads…...
- 3/12/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
A Nordic creepfest the Coen brothers might admire.
Jakob Cedergren in "Terribly Happy"
Photo: Oscilloscope Pictures
Talk about tough towns. The remote village that Copenhagen cop Robert Hansen finds himself transferred to in "Terribly Happy" is more than just unwelcoming: It's deeply creepy. The marshal who preceded Hansen in this one-man-police-force job has disappeared, for some unexplained reason, and the rustics who congregate at the local tavern whisper and leer whenever the new arrival walks in — they seem to know more about him than they really should. There's also a little girl who walks the empty streets in the dead of night pushing a baby-less stroller; and in a desolate bog on the outskirts of town, somebody's car is slowly sinking into the muck.
The movie is wonderfully warped. There are overtones of horror and noirish depravity that recall both the 1973 cult film "The Wicker Man" and Shirley Jackson's famous 1948 short story,...
Jakob Cedergren in "Terribly Happy"
Photo: Oscilloscope Pictures
Talk about tough towns. The remote village that Copenhagen cop Robert Hansen finds himself transferred to in "Terribly Happy" is more than just unwelcoming: It's deeply creepy. The marshal who preceded Hansen in this one-man-police-force job has disappeared, for some unexplained reason, and the rustics who congregate at the local tavern whisper and leer whenever the new arrival walks in — they seem to know more about him than they really should. There's also a little girl who walks the empty streets in the dead of night pushing a baby-less stroller; and in a desolate bog on the outskirts of town, somebody's car is slowly sinking into the muck.
The movie is wonderfully warped. There are overtones of horror and noirish depravity that recall both the 1973 cult film "The Wicker Man" and Shirley Jackson's famous 1948 short story,...
- 2/12/2010
- MTV Movie News
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