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Director: Dagur Kári
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From Time Out London
Icelander Dagur Kári wowed many critics a couple of years back with his suitably undemonstrative embrace of the slacker gestalt in his Reykjavik-set debut feature, ‘Nói Albinói’. He’s carted his camera and his laidback observational skills to the quiet streets of Copenhagen for his latest feature, another gently absurdist, wryly comedic look at a demotivated outsider, this time older, twentysomething graffiti-artist, Daniel (a winningly contained Jakob Cedergren), who’s mates with a disappointingly regulation-issue eccentric, the portly ‘grandpa’ (Nicolas Bro). There’s perhaps an overfamiliarity and self-consciousness to Kári’s meandering, quietly melancholy observations and a gentle whiff, too, of pretension about the mock-formal chapter headings and deliberately desaturated black-and-white cinematography. But things become more intriguing with an affecting injection of a Wender-esque existentialism as Daniel is forced to react to the demands of a new girlfriend, vulnerable shop assistant Franc (Tilly Scott Pedersen). A little slight and self-conscious, maybe, but nicely understated and seductively sympathetic.Author: Wally Hammond
Time Out London Issue 1898: January 3-10 2007
Cast & crew
Director: Dagur Kári
Cast: Jakob Cedergren, Nicolas Bro, Tilly Scott Pedersen, Morten Suurballe, Bodil Jørgensen, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Anders Hove, Kristian Halken, Thomas W Gabrielsson, Michelle Bjørn-Andersen full cast
Rated: 15
Duration: 106 mins
UK Release: Jan 5 2007
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