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I started watching "Unit One" solely because of Mads Mikkelsen. I was on a mission to watch everything he ever acted/ appeared on. (I still am).

However, I'm extremely picky about serieses. Then again, HEU led me to places that I wouldn't have visited with a gun so I was like fuck it, let's start watching a wholeass series cause MADS MIKKELSEN LOOKED HOT AF IN IT.

Now oh boy... Little did I know that I'd end up enjoying Unit One SO much! It's an amazing show and now ik why it's called a Danish classic! All the actors in it did an AMAZING job and goddamn European men are HOT.

I've developed a massive crush on Lars Brygmann

I've known him from "Riders of justice" but I wasn't prepared for THIS ^

I'm so grateful that I decided to watch Mads Mikkelsen's Danish stuff. It has been such a crazy ride. I've only 7 eps left of this show and I'm definitely gonna miss Allan, La Cour , Ingrid and Gabby :")

Now about Mads, (Can't help it)

I've always loved exploring media that are not "Hollywood". Being born in South Asia, I grew up with Bollywood and Anime so I always knew that there are AMAZING stuff out there that are being made all over the world. I just didn't have any source which I could follow when it came to native European media. Then Hannibal happened along with MADS MIKKELSEN. Mads always carries a piece of his root everywhere he goes and that is what makes him SO EXTREMELY charming to me. I love his accent, his non Hollywood teeth, his god like body structure and how fucking original this man is. Getting to explore his Danish films and Serieses made me fall for this man even harder than before. He's one of a kind.

Bonus: LARS MIKKELSEN. I need to thank the Mikkelsen parents atp 🙏. I'm a slut for these brothers.

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Festen

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WATCHLIST 2023: Riders of Justice

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Riders of Justice (Retfærdighedens ryttere) (2020) Anders Thomas Jensen

February 6th 2023

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Bedre Tider (2023) #MiladAvaz #LarsBrygmann #SebastianJessen #AndreasJessen #LiseBaastrup #JensJørnSpottag Mehr auf:

Jahr: 2023 (Dezember) Genre: Comedy / Drama Regie: Milad Avaz Hauptrollen: Lars Brygmann, Sebastian Jessen, Andreas Jessen, Lise Baastrup, Jens Jørn Spottag, Ari Alexander, Rasmus Botoft, Torben Zeller, Johanne Milland, Amanda Radeljak … Filmbeschreibung: Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter stützt sich Oskar auf seinen Bruder Karel. Doch Karels Bäckerei steht vor Gericht wegen der Schulden ihres…

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Riders of Justice

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Toves Værelse

🇩🇰 UGENS PREMIEREFILM: I 1960’erne bor Tove Ditlevsen (Paprika Steen), en af tidens største kvindelige forfattere, i en herskabslejlighed med sin sadistiske chefredaktør af en mand, Victor Andreasen (Lars Brygmann). Deres forhold har sin helt egen særlige dynamik, hvor der er kort fra kærlighed til had, og fra rosende ord til ydmygelser. Da den unge forfatter Klaus Rifbjerg (Joachim Fjelstrup)…

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Toves værelse

🔜 KOMMER SNART: Filmen ‘Toves værelse’ handler om den berømte danske digter Tove Ditlevsen, kendt for bl.a. ‘Man gjorde et barn fortræd’, ‘Barndommens gade’ og ‘Blinkende lygter’. Paprika Steen spiller Tove Ditlevsen, der i 1960’erne levede sammen med Ekstra Bladets chefredaktør, Victor Andreasen, i et stormombrust ægteskab. Paprika Steen og Lars Brygmann har tidligere spillet overfor hinanden i…

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Viaplay Orders First Danish Original Film ‘Camino’ with ‘Industry’ Director Birgitte Stærmose, Top Nordic Cast (EXCLUSIVE)

Viaplay Orders First Danish Original Film ‘Camino’ with ‘Industry’ Director Birgitte Stærmose, Top Nordic Cast (EXCLUSIVE)

Scandinavia’s leading streamer Viaplay has ordered its Danish feature, “Camino,” a heartwarming comedy-drama directed by Birgitte Stærmose (“Industry”) with a cast led by Lars Brygmann (“Riders of Justice,” “Borgen”) and Danica Curcic (“The Chestnut Man”). “Camino” portrays the complex relationship between a father and daughter who are walking a famous pilgrim route in Spain. The film is…

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Movies I watched this Week #98

Is there something called ‘Third-hand smoking’? Because if there is, you might get it from Aki Kaurismäki’s films. Ariel is my 6th absurd film by him, and the first from his ‘Proletariat Trilogy’. One of my favorites of his, a story of a laconic, chain-smoking, hard-on-his-luck miner who travels to Helsinki in an old white Cadillac convertible, but dreams of getting away to much warmer climates. 8/10.  

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First watch: Pelle the Conqueror, a Danish-Swedish coming-of-age award-winner directed by Bille August. A textbook dirt-poor immigrant story told in epic and humane style. (Photo Above). 9/10

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Re-watching - once again - my 2 favorite ‘Guilty Pleasures’ by Anders Thomas Jensen:   

🍿 The masterful Riders of Justice, again. It’s a richly layered ‘Butterfly-effect’ revenge thriller with a painful human heart and a philosophical depth, and every moment of it is genuine. But even more than the relationship between Markus and his daughter, I love the interactions between the three hacker friends, Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Otto Hoffmann, Lars Brygmann as Lennart and Nicolas Bro as Emmenthaler. A perfect Danish Film. 10/10.

🍿 I was also very happy to introduced my mom to his After the wedding, and to watch it together with her, while I translate the dialogue as it happens. 10/10 for the tenth (?) time. She said it was exactly the kind of movie she likes.

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On the day that charismatic fraudster Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in prison, I saw the 2019 The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, an excellent HBO documentary from Alex Gibney about her. It is based on the investigations and book by Wall Street Journal’s journalist John Carreyrou, who's also interviewed in the movie.

It’s disturbing that one of the few times when white collar crimes are actually punished, the book is thrown at the woman. But of course, when the victims hurt by her actions were not ordinary people but very important VIPs who invested millions in the company. Also how glowing the financial media was about Theranos all the way until it wasn’t. It’s all just a giant Ponzi scheme.

Best new watch of the week.

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Josef von Sternberg‘s The Blue Angel, the first feature-length German full-talkie and Marlene Dietrich’s breakthrough role. The classic story of a respectable gymnasium “professor” who falls for a showgirl and descents into humiliation and madness.

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Photocopier, my first film from Indonesia. A student drama addressing the taboo topics of sexual assaults and alcohol usage by girls. A ‘daring’ exposure played against background of conservative and religious society that refuses to acknowledge it. 

The final scene though was better than the mediocre run: At the end, two of the girls push a copier to the roof of the campus building and started throwing leaflets about the abuse, and many others joined them into a torrent of leaflets like a tropical rain.

Typically distributed by Netflix, the platform that guarantees inferior content, from the forgettable and bland to the downright awful. 3/10.

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Naked, my 8th film by Mike Leigh and the first that I really disliked. An ugly story of two disgusting characters, obnoxious, misogynistic, self-absorbed rapists, who casually mistreat everybody around them and about the meek women who beds them and love them. It was a metaphor for the social landscape under Thatcher? OK. But the entitled, dreary and unsympathetic men were not pleasant to spend two hours with.

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3 disappointing shorts:

🍿 Lava, a funky, quirky, badly-drawn, alternative adult animation from Argentina. It’s an incoherent story about a young tattoo artist and her friends who's confronted with “unexpected apocalypse in Buenos Aires, with giant cats adorning rooftops, evil witches wreaking havoc, and hypnotic visuals from phone and television screens rendering the population zombified”. In the last 20 minutes the story disintegrated into even more meaningless grab bag of leftovers. 2/10 

🍿 My first by Ari Aster, his early Film Noir parody The Turtle's Head. Office Space’s Tom Smykowski is a sleazy private detective, a prick if you will, whose only care is getting laid and who discovers that his penis is suddenly shriveling. A one-note dick joke about an unsavory character. (Re-watch)

🍿 All the Boys Are Called Patrick, an early Godard short, written by Éric Rohmer. Jean-Claude Brialy is an entitled pick-up artist who aggressively accost two separate women not knowing they are roommates.

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Servant of the people is my first satire from Ukraine. It’s the extraordinary TV series produced and starred by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, former clown and current hero, who now leads the real bloody war against Russia. As an historical phenomena, it captured an amazing light in a bottle moment: The story of an ordinary history teacher who unexpectedly becomes the Ukrainian president, and the parallel story of the real-life comedian who - based on the success of this show - became the actual leader of his country. In a way, it mirrors the same story in the US, when drumpf became president based solely on a made-up personality he played on the TV. Zelenskyy seems though to be a kind and humane individual whose goal was to fight corruption and to serve his fellow citizens, while drumpf... well...

As a TV series, it’s low-brow and shallow, filled with popular humor, and moments of genuine heart. I only binged the first 4 out of 51 episodes.

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So-Bad-I-Couldn’t-Finish-It-Film:

I tried watching Logan’s Run with 1970′s Pretty Boy Michael York after hearing about it for years, but after 20 min. realized it will be a simple kitschy waste of time. I just can’t stand this type of cheesy science fiction premises.

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(My complete movie list is here)

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Riders of Justice (2020)

Dir. Anders Thomas Jensen

Language: Danish

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Riders of Justice

directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, 2020

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“I've rewinded everything a million times to find a reason. But there isn't one. Yes, that's it. There are centillions. But you can't use any of them for anything. I sometimes dream of finding the guy who stole my bike. I see him cycling off on my bike, and catch him. But I also know it's not his fault. It's nobody's fault. It just makes a little more sense if you have someone you can... get mad at.”

Retfærdighedens Ryttere / Riders of Justice (2020) Dir. Anders Thomas Jensen