Dronningen (Queen of Hearts) *SPOILERS*
I had never heard of this film from last year and it was quite a surprise. It's amazing the range of emotion that this film covers for the viewer. At times it made me feel uneasy, sad, happy, and downright uncomfortable. And that's I think just what it was trying to do.
What a performance by Trine Dyrholm as Anne, wife of Peter. The range of acting she displays in just one movie is really incredible. The rest of the cast, had they been as great as she was, could have really elevated the film, but I didn't care for their performances as much. Not that they were bad or anything, they just didn't stick out. Gustav just seemed like a rather cold character to me with not all that much to offer which was a real bummer.
Plenty of beautiful film shots. The forest scenes we're definitely really well shot and beautiful. The sex scenes we're very uncomfortable given the situation of the story. It sounds strange but they were filmed very well, are we sure they didn't have an existing career prior to this
Great direction by a relatively new director, May El-Touky, who looks like she did one film before this. She could have potential to be real good in the future.
The subs I had weren't great though, couldn't even get the lyrics of Tainted Love right, but what do you do. I'm not gonna lie I was at first ready to give this like a 3-3.5, but I think it needs to raise a bit. That ending was something that bumped it up quite well.
My question to those when you see it, near the end Anne sees Gustav in the mirror. Was it a flashback or what was going on there?
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Well done, MM.