Kasper Barfoed is a good sport, despite me making bad jokes about bacon and confusing Lars Von Trier with Gus Van Sant… ( I had a brain fart, so what! you should try getting up at three at the morning, catch a slug train, and then run up 7 flights of stairs losing the black button on your new shoes.) decided to give me a crash course on Danish Cinema whilst talking about his new film: The Candidate which premiered in London during the festival.
Barfoed honed his talent’s in commercial film before cutting his directorial teeth on a franchise of popular children’s adventure movies, but don’t expect any forest’s and hi-jinks in The Candidate which is a rapid departure from his previous dalliance and indicative of a distinctive and stylistic directorial approach which tries to combine : “Classic genre with a distinct European Execution…”
I found an excellent article on the film —> http://www.dfi.dk/tidsskriftetfilm/63/expressionist.htm
Here’s Kasper’s top 5 Danish Film’s
Festen : (Thomas Vinterberg)
Nattevagten : (Ole Bornedal)
Breaking The Waves : (Lars von Trier)
Mifune Sidste Sang : (Soren Kragh-Jacobsen)
Italian For Beginner’s : (Lone Scherfig).
And I’m quite sure that when I’ve watched The Candidate, it will make it onto my favourite danish cinema list.
