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‘Rose,’ A Sensitive Look Into The Perception Of Schizophrenia

The film, written and directed by Niels Arden Oplev, begins with a beautiful scene depicting the character of Inger, played by Sofie Gråbøl, combing her hair. This moment evokes Marina Abramović’s Art must be beautiful, Artist must be beautiful. In 1975, this apparently innocuous gesture was used by the performance artist as a tool to…

Film Review – Denmark’s Oscar Submission ‘Holy Spider’ is a Tense and Effective Thriller about Violent Fanaticism 

It should be an agreed-upon concept that murder is not acceptable under any circumstance. Self-defense is a legal argument often used that should, in its truthful application, connote that the act of killing someone to prevent being killed negates its definition as murder. But there are those who believe that they serve a higher purpose,…

Will DiCaprio Binge Out In This Danish Liquor Flick, ‘Another Round” Remake?

Over the years, Hollywood has produced its share of “liquor flicks” – films like The Long Weekend (1945) or Days of Wine and Roses (1962) that portray, frame by frame and drip by drip, the agonies of alcoholism. Last fall, the Danes took a shot at this intoxicating genre by lifting their glasses to Druk, …