Kim Skotte

A Strong Thread of Humanism

07. maj 2013. Søren Kragh-Jacobsen was one of the four Dogme Brothers. While Thomas Vinterberg and Lars von Trier took Cannes by storm in 1998, Kragh-Jacobsen's "Mifune" won the Silver Bear in Berlin and was a big…

Emotional extremist

07. feb 2012. Simon Staho asked Danish critics not to review his new film "Love Is in the Air", because he thought they were too old to get it. Now in the youth competition at Berlin, the film is a riotous teen…

A meek giant

09. maj 2011 | INTERVIEW. "Teddy Bear" is about a Danish bodybuilder who goes to Thailand looking for love. Mads Matthiesen's debut feature is a sign of a new trend in Danish cinema that finds directors of narrative films…

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

24. feb 2011 | OPINION. Perhaps teens would rather watch films where the hero looks dumb with a glob of come in his eye, while the heroine runs away screaming from a homicidal maniac. But at unguarded moments there in the…

Son of a Castrated Alpha Male

03. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. An insecure young man, his bizarre, embittered father and a randy blind girl inhabit the weird small town of "Skyscraper", the directorial debut of screenwriter Rune Schjøtt. In a unique blend of the…

When Mom is a Dangerous Role Model

03. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. Director Heidi Maria Faisst remembers clearly what it was like changing almost overnight from a horse-loving girl to an unruly teenager. The chaos of the first titillating steps into adult life is…