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  • 2006
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2006
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 44 m

Summary 32-year-old Charlotte (Dryholm) could have it all, but she doesn't want any of it. When she moves away from her boyfriend, she happens to become the upstairs neighbor of the transsexual Veronica (Dencik). Veronica prefers to keep to herself with her little dog and a romantic soap show on TV, while Charlotte gets through the nights with o...

Directed By: Pernille Fischer Christensen

Written By: Kim Fupz Aakeson, Pernille Fischer Christensen

  • 2006
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2006
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 44 m

En soap

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
55
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary 32-year-old Charlotte (Dryholm) could have it all, but she doesn't want any of it. When she moves away from her boyfriend, she happens to become the upstairs neighbor of the transsexual Veronica (Dencik). Veronica prefers to keep to herself with her little dog and a romantic soap show on TV, while Charlotte gets through the nights with o...

Directed By: Pernille Fischer Christensen

Written By: Kim Fupz Aakeson, Pernille Fischer Christensen

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
55
43% Positive
3 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
29% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
55
43% Positive
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29% Mixed
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29% Negative
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88
Christensen simultaneously avoids all the cliches that might have been heaped upon her beautifully rendered characters and roots their travails in everything that makes for a good soap: tragedy, tears, sexual tension, misplaced letters and a slightly sardonic voice-over that teases the plot lines like the old-fashioned, "tune in tomorrow" narrator of yesteryear.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
75
An amusing melodrama.
By Ruthe Stein FULL REVIEW
70
Casts an entrancing spell thanks to understated perfs by leads and Christensen's featherlight touch with Kim Fupz Aakeson's screenplay.
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60
So sensitively acted you can almost buy its premise that love (in this case, neighborly affection and dependence) might rewire sexuality.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
60
If Christensen's conventional plot is somewhat at odds with her downbeat realism, the idea that these characters are willing to fight like cats and dogs, and destroy each other and themselves, to avoid confronting their intense attraction to each other is totally convincing.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
30
The movie strands you in two miserable flats with these cliche-ridden characters and a static love story that is as predictable as it is pedestrian.
By Kirk Honeycutt FULL REVIEW
25
Relentlessly grim.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Nimbus Film, Garagefilm International, New Danish Screen, Zentropa Entertainments
Release Date Nov 3, 2006
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating Unrated
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Tagline Sometimes life is stranger than a 'SOAP'
Website http://www.dfi.dk/faktaomfilm/film/da/47514.aspx?id=47514
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Awards

Danish Film Awards (Robert)
• 4 Wins & 15 Nominations
Bodil Awards
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

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