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Bookmark this pageA Soap (2006)
Director: Pernille Fischer Christensen
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From Time Out London
Charlotte (Dyrholm), bored with her bourgeois life, leaves her fella and moves into an apartment in a less swish bit of town. Her downstairs neighbour doesn’t get out much: Veronica (Dencik) is a pre-op transsexual who turns tricks and fends off her mother’s cringeworthy attempts at support. The former is confident, even brash or crass; the latter is mouse-like, nervy and insecure as she awaits news of the operation. The rapport they strike up in Christensen’s chamber piece pierced with shafts of bright sunlight remains a somewhat unknown quantity, a shifting dynamic taking some of its cues from the soaps and melodramas the characters watch together and others from a realist tradition of considerable emotional heft.Author: Ben Walters
Time Out London Issue 1887: October 18-25 2006
Cast & crew
Director: Pernille Fischer Christensen
Cast: Trine Dyrholm, David Dencik, Frank Thiel full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 104 mins
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