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  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary Robert Hanson is a Copenhagen police officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated Marshall position and subsequently gets mixed up with a married femme fatale. Robert’s big city temperament makes it impossible for him to fit in, or understand the uncivilized, bi...

Directed By: Henrik Ruben Genz

Written By: Dunja Gry Jensen, Erling Jepsen, Henrik Ruben Genz

  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 39 m

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Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
74
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary Robert Hanson is a Copenhagen police officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated Marshall position and subsequently gets mixed up with a married femme fatale. Robert’s big city temperament makes it impossible for him to fit in, or understand the uncivilized, bi...

Directed By: Henrik Ruben Genz

Written By: Dunja Gry Jensen, Erling Jepsen, Henrik Ruben Genz

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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17% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
15 Reviews
17% Mixed
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90
Not a horror movie but a witty, expertly constructed psychological thriller.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
83
This is a smart, melancholy crime picture, which takes its cues from the title of the perverse old standard Christensen plays on her stereo at night: “You Always Hurt The One You Love.”
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
80
Entertaining and full of surprising twists, this highly cinematic tale of a Copenhagen policeman working punishment duty in the provinces plays with genre in a manner that can be compared with the Coen brothers or David Lynch.
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75
Genz and Erling have constructed a story so clever that the pleasure of following its twists is enough in itself.
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75
It may not sound funny, but there's a bleakly comic air about the story, and a bit of surrealism, suggesting the most caustic side of the Coen brothers.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
70
An enjoyably involving mystery-thriller.
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50
The characters are intended to be slightly stupid, but the writing isn’t necessarily smarter.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
6.4
43% Positive
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57% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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57% Mixed
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Production Company Fine & Mellow Productions
Release Date Feb 5, 2010
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Danish Film Awards (Robert)
• 7 Wins & 14 Nominations
Bodil Awards
• 6 Wins & 7 Nominations
Valladolid International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

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