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  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Grandfilm
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Grandfilm
  • 1 h 22 m
Giraffe

Summary An ethnologist in her late 30s arrives on an island in the south of Denmark to study its inhabitants and record their traditions. Their homes are set to be demolished to build a tunnel linking to Germany. Unexpectedly, she meets an attractive younger man, a laborer who’s been hired from Poland.

Written By: Anna Sofie Hartmann

  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Grandfilm
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Grandfilm
  • 1 h 22 m

Giraffe

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Summary An ethnologist in her late 30s arrives on an island in the south of Denmark to study its inhabitants and record their traditions. Their homes are set to be demolished to build a tunnel linking to Germany. Unexpectedly, she meets an attractive younger man, a laborer who’s been hired from Poland.

Written By: Anna Sofie Hartmann

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90
Aug 7, 2020
It’s a film of big themes on an intimate scale that lovingly acknowledges the unimaginable wealth of stories inside everyone we encounter, while also looking at how we negotiate the place of memory in our lives.
By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW
75
Dec 14, 2020
The film’s vibes are melancholy and Scandi-modern, cozy and bougie, here are lovely interludes of fallow fields in white-nights summer twilight, and scenes filmed over FaceTime or as video messages nicely evoke the textures of this interconnected, transient century. The becalmed mood and associative dramaturgy at times recalls Angela Shanelec, though Hartmann is not quite as rigorous.
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60
Aug 7, 2020
It’s a movie whose subtle thoughts are in danger of being upstaged by a potent and erotic love story that surfaces and then disappears, leaving you uncertain whether finally to be more interested in that romance or the ruminations it has interrupted – or enlivened.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Komplizen Film, Profile Pictures, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), Danmarks Radio (DR), Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Det Danske Filminstitut, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA)
Release Date Aug 6, 2020
Duration 1 h 22 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

German Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Viennale
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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