| Dykkerne |
| Rating: * * 1/2 Director: Ake Sandgren Running time: 91 minutes Language: DanishNow showing |
This is my second week in a row writing on a film from Scandinavia, so I'm suffering somewhat from Big Blonde People Overload. Especially since the latest involves apple-cheeked, sturdy-boned youngsters from Denmark who look as though they've never eaten anything but organic food in their lives.
The thing about people with such infinite charm and good looks is that they leave Asians feeling hopelessly scruffy and wizened, fit only for devising ever-smaller laptops and cellphones to peddle to the rest of the world. Sniff.
"Dykkerne" is the name of the movie (English title "Beyond"), and it means "diver" in Danish. The director is Ake Sandgren, winner of many prestigious film awards in Denmark. Interestingly, he is not a member of the Dogma Manifesto gang, a movement spearheaded by fellow Danish director Lars von Trier (of "Dancer in the Dark" fame), which abhors special effects, fancy camerawork, digital graphics, etc. Indeed, Sandgren has no compunctions about using digitalized anything, and in some scenes his only concern seems to be to prove that Danish digitals are as good as America's, any old day of the week.
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