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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Foreign
Written by:
Kim Fupz Aakeson
Pernille Fischer Christensen
Directed by: Pernille Fischer Christensen
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 3, 2006
DVD: February 6, 2007
Running Time: 103 minutes, Color
Origin: Denmark
Language(s): Danish (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring David Dencik, Trine Dyrholm, Frank Thiel, Elsebeth Steentoft, and Christian Tafdrup
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 one-night stands. An assault, a new bed, and some white curtains bring the two of them together and they end up as the main characters of their own turbulent "soap opera." (Strand Releasing)
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TV Guide Ken Fox
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.
Read Full Review >Variety Leslie Felperin
Casts an entrancing spell thanks to understated perfs by leads and Christensen's featherlight touch with Kim Fupz Aakeson's screenplay.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
So sensitively acted you can almost buy its premise that love (in this case, neighborly affection and dependence) might rewire sexuality.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
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.
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