Danish
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘ACTS OF LOVE’ about a New Age Christian community in rural Denmark
There is a legend in Greenland about the sun and the moon that pursues him, which is the subject of this film by Jeppe Ronde, which is based on real memories. The film is full of symbolism, a beautiful landscape in rural Denmark, a religious sect (New Age Christian community), a house with a corridor…
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From Queerguru Archives : the delightful TEDDY BEAR a Sundance Winner in 2012
This is the story of Dennis (Kim Kold) a Danish middle-aged pumped-up 6′ 5″ bodybuilder who weighs in at 305 lbs but still lives at home with his diminutive shrew of a mother who bullies him like mad. After Dennis’s old Uncle Bent (Allan Mogensen) marries his new young Thai bride it sets him off…
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The Danish Boys – Danish without sugar
The Danish Boys collection of short films recently released from NQV Media has an unusual common trait across its diverse characters and circumstances. There is a focus on victimhood without redeeming purpose that is individually irritating and objectionable whilst collectively being oddly compelling. Centered around over familiar gay crucifixion scenes each ode to pain…
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A Second Chance
It’s only the ‘goodies’ that get a second chance in this new rather overwrought melodrama from Danish Oscar winning director Susanne Bier as the ‘baddies’ evidently do not deserve to dig themselves out of the hell holes of lives they have ended up with. The action starts with Police Detective Andreas and his partner Simon bursting into a squalid…
