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MikaelCPH
Reviews
Kunsten at græde i kor (2006)
How can you laugh of child abuse?
You cannot. Of course not. Still what I find brilliant and special with this film, is that all though child abuse is a main theme, it is still a film where you laugh. That Schønau Fog can make a film about such a horrific subject and still make you laugh. Not that this is a comedy, but because the situation is grotesque. In a child's view the situation in HIS family is normal, and that's (obviously) the point of view from which he (Allan, who's narration makes quite a lot of the "dialogue") tell us what happens: "Sanne makes Dad happy"...
And is the only child abuse in the film what the father does with Sanne, or is Allan a victim as well? That the mother is abusing him by her escapistic use of sleeping pills? She actually leave the responsibility for the family's functionality with Allan, who then tries to "make Dad happy", whether it's by acting as a pimp ("Sanne, Dad is crying! You must go downstairs to him!") or by "pushing coincidence"! By... No, you must see this film!
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Why is the music Irish??
I found this film impressing, I will not forget it soon. It's a absolutely a scoop that they speak Aramaic/Hebrew/Latin and not English, and it's performed by relatively unknown actors. Actors without a lot of connotations.
But this damned Irish shepherd's flute that also damaged my experience of a lot of visually amazing scenes in Lord of the Rings (where I find the flute acceptable though irritating), is back again. Why spoiling so many efforts and so much monies in making the dialogue, the spoken language, correct when the musical language is Irish? I know that nobody knows the music of that time and place, and it shouldn't be, the visual language is absolutely 2004, still... Irish? My first thought when the credits began rolling was: "Well, J.S. Bach and Andrew Lloyd Webber definitely made better music for the Passion than Mr. Debney."