Danish Cinema

Kalak – first-look review

By David Jenkins

This Greenland-set drama from Danish director Isabella Eklöf, about a husband and father dealing with the trauma of abuse, makes for oppressively grim and only occasionally revelatory viewing.

The Commune

By David Jenkins

Thomas Vinterberg offers up the pros, cons and further cons of communal living experiments of the 1970s.

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Lars von Trier – apocalyptic auteur

By John Wadsworth

The story of how the famously provocative Danish director lost control on his 2011 film, Melancholia.

Why Carl Theodor Dreyer is one of cinema’s greatest ever directors

By Paul Risker

To mark the release of the BFI’s new Blu-ray collection, revisit four works by the Danish master.

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