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Camping (1990)
Funny little picture
I really should be writing this in danish, as nobody outside Scandinavia will ever see this quaint, little movie.
This is a harmless little piece of a flick, almost solely carried home by Pallesen and Pilmarks co-effort. (Pilmark is very rarely not very great) The plot is as thin as something very, very thin, but somehow that doesn't really seem to be a problem at all. The story is very confusing and dreamlike, and leads the mind towards magical realism, and keeps your attention because you'll never know what will happen next. I would see it again if had the chance, but that would probably be as a late-night rerun on TV. This is definitely a movie that leaves everybody none-the-wiser and makes nobody a better person, but it has a feel-good thing going, that makes it worth seeing on a rainy day.
Den store Kul-Tur (1996)
Satire at its greatest
When Copenhagen was the Cultural Capital of the EU in 1996, Søren Fauli was presenting the effort (or lack of) in this movie. It is a deep satire showing how artists, intellectuals, governments and others reacts when great sums of money and prestige are involved. Nepotism, corruption, sex and violence are players in this hilarious commentary on culture/art. The actors are great. Lasse Lunderskov (whom I didn't think much of as an actor before) is fantastic as the incompetent administrator of the funds. Morten Grundwald as the ass-kicking mayor, always clad in white, is wonderful. And especially Søren Pilmark (who very rarely is not fantastic) as the has-been artist Klosterstad with the greatest under-hung jaw in motion picture history, is easily worth the entire film.
This movie satires so many people that I can't mention them all. But the different artists and administrator at extremely funny. I saw this film once in 1996 on TV and went straight out and bought it on VHS. A must-see if you are in the art-world or just enjoy good satire.