Film tips week 48
Kosmorama recommends quality films for the week to watch either on the big screen or on various streaming services! This week, we recommend a visit to Cinemateket for a French coming-of-age film, as well as Anders Thomas Jensen’s newest comedy, which premieres this week at Trondheim Kino. In that spirit, we’re also highlighting another of Jensen’s dark comedies from 2005, which you can find available for streaming.
The Last Viking
Where: Trondheim Cinema
After 15 years in prison for robbery, Anker is released. Anker’s brother, Manfred, is the only one who knows where the stolen money is hidden, but in the meantime, he has developed a mental condition that means he no longer remembers where it was stashed.
Together, the brothers set out on a journey back to their childhood home to find the money – but also to discover who they really are.
The Last Viking is Anders Thomas Jensen’s sixth film as a director, and also the sixth time he collaborates with two of Danish cinema’s biggest stars – Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Mads Mikkelsen, who play Anker and Manfred respectively.
As a director, Anders Thomas Jensen is behind some of Denmark’s most beloved films, including Flickering Lights, The Green Butchers and Riders of Justice.
The cast also includes several well-known actors and regulars in Jensen’s cinematic universe, such as Sofie Gråbøl, Lars Brygmann, Bodil Jørgensen, Søren Malling, Nicolas Bro and Lars Ranthe.
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Water Lilies
Where: Cinemateket Trondheim
With Water Lilies, Céline Sciamma made her feature film debut and introduced audiences to Marie, Anne and Floriane, three teenage girls whose lives become intertwined through swimming, longing and desire. The film plays with the teen-movie genre, partly following classical plot rules but also breaking them.
In addition to portraying how the girls explore their femininity and sexuality, Water Lilies is, for Sciamma, also a film about girlhood itself – which she compares to synchronized swimming, with its forced smiles, outward ornamentation, and the constant effort that must remain hidden.
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Adams Apples
Where: Streaming
Ivan is a modern, optimistic man. As a priest, he sees it as his greatest task to help and support his fellow human beings — especially those who have gone astray.
At the same time, Ivan’s connection to reality is somewhat unstable. Still, that doesn’t stop him from welcoming the neo-Nazi Adam with open arms. Adam has been “sentenced” to 12 weeks of community service and arrives at Ivan’s fragile, otherworldly collective, which already includes the alcoholic Gunnar, Sarah, and Khalid, a gas-station robber.
But revelations are on their way, slaps are in the air, and there is unrest in Paradise. Adam’s Apples is a funny, dark and satirical film.
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