Blogs about: Scandinavian Cinema
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<i>In a Better World</i> (<i>Hævnen</i>, Denmark-Sweden, 2010)
A normal psycho This Oscar winner (best foreign language) is an absolute belter if you like your melodrama. Two ordinary bourgeois families coming to terms with marital strife and the death of a moth… more →
Nick Lacey on films
Kon Tiki - Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg
wrote 3 days ago: Directed By Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg. Kon-Tiki is a refreshing tale of Norwegian Hero Thor … more →
Drifting Clouds - Aki Kaurismaki
wrote 3 days ago: Directed by Aki Kaurismaki . The first film in Kaurismaki’s Finland Trilogy ( the others being … more →
Swedish coming-of-age film SHE MONKEYS gets UK dvd release.
wrote 1 month ago: SHE MONKEYS (12A) 2012 SWEDEN ASCHAN, LISA £15.99 When shy, timid Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser) jo … more →
Lars von Trier THE BOSS OF IT ALL released on dvd
wrote 1 month ago: THE BOSS OF IT ALL (15) 2006 DENMARK TRIER, LARS VON £15.99 Black comedy from acclaimed Danis … more →
Latest Scandinavian film, the Hunt staring Mads Mikkelsen, gets UK dvd release
wrote 2 months ago: THE HUNT (15) 2012 DENMARK VINTERBERG, THOMAS £17.99T Mads Mikkelsen stars as Lukas, a recently … more →
Another Scandinavian series - PROTECTORS: SEASON 1 - makes its UK debut on dvd
wrote 2 months ago: PROTECTORS: SEASON 1 (15) 2009 DENMARK £23.99 Emmy award-winning series featuring the th … more →
Genius in the Shadow of Hollywood: Let The Right One In
wrote 2 months ago: “The more I watch Let the Right One In the more fascinated I become. The first time I had watc … more →
THALE - Out on dvd 25 March 2013
wrote 3 months ago: THALE (15) 2012 NORWAY NORDAAS, ALEKSANDER £15.99 Norwegian fantasy horror in which a pair … more →
HAPPY HAPPY - Out on dvd 25 February 2013
wrote 3 months ago: HAPPY HAPPY (15) 2010 NORWAY SEWITSKY, ANNE £15.99 Offbeat black comedy drama stars Agnes Kitt … more →
BABETTE’S FEAST Out on dvd 25 February 2013
wrote 3 months ago: BABETTE’S FEAST (U) 1987 -DENMARK £15.99 Writer/director Gabriel Axel’s Oscar-winning fi … more →
Le Havre - Aki Kaurismaki
wrote 3 months ago: Written and Directed by Aki Kaurismaki. Le Havre is sort of first film of a new trilogy in making by … more →
wrote 3 months ago: As the snow settles in the UK and we spend cosy nights in front of the TV, it’s a good week to brea … more →
BORGEN TWO - out on dvd 4 February 2013
wrote 3 months ago: BORGEN: SEASON 2 (15) 2011 DENMARK £19.99 The second season of the Danish drama following a … more →
JACKPOT - out on dvd January 2013
wrote 3 months ago: JACKPOT (15) 2011 NORWAY MARTENS, MAGNUS £15.99 Crime thriller in which a young man attem … more →
JÄGARNA
wrote 3 months ago: JÄGARNA (15) 2011 SWEDEN SUNDVALL, KJELL £19.99 Thriller in which Erik (Rolf Lassgård) ret … more →
THE KILLING: SEASON 3
wrote 3 months ago: THE KILLING: SEASON 3 (15) 2012 DENMARK SVEISTRUP, SØREN £39.99 All ten episodes from the third s … more →
KING OF DEVIL'S ISLAND
wrote 3 months ago: KING OF DEVIL’S ISLAND (12A) 2010 NORWAY HOLST, MARIUS £17.99 On a remote island off t … more →
KISS ME
wrote 3 months ago: KISS ME (15) 2011 SWEDEN KEINING, ALEXANDRA-THERESE £15.99 Drama about the intense relationsh … more →
UNIT ONE: SEASON 1 - Out on dvd January 2013
wrote 3 months ago: UNIT ONE: SEASON 1 (15) 2000 DENMARK £24.99 All nine episodes of the first season of the Danish cri … more →
