Country: Denmark – Wimbledon Film Club

Holy Spider

Zar Amir Ebrahimi won Best Actress at Cannes for her role as an investigative journalist going undercover to track down a killer.
Riders of Justice

A revenge thriller that combines deadpan humour and violence will inevitably evoke the Coen brothers, while the dynamic of a scarred older man and a young girl on a revenge mission has its precursors in films such as Kiss-Ass and Léon (that the young girl is also called Mathilde is surely no coincidence in a…
Wild Men

Danish cinema is having a moment. The last two years have seen the release of award-winning films like Another Round, Riders of Justice, Flee and The Guilty. Wild Men co-writer and director Thomas Deneskov credits the Danish Film Institute and public support: “The funding system allows us to really play, and not worry about making…
The Act of Killing

This horrifically gripping Oscar-nominated documentary examines the legacy of the anti-communist atrocities in the wake of a failed coup in mid-1960s Indonesia. It interviews members of the death squads, who were never prosecuted for their crimes, and gets them to stage bizarre re-enactments of their crimes interspersed with movie footage. While not an easy watch…
A Hijacking

Virtuoso display of Nordic suspense from Borgen scriptwriter as Somali pirates take over Danish cargo ship and battle with Copenhagen-based hostage negotiator. (Warning: may contain Faroe Isle sweaters.) The film was shot on location and used a real ship. The crew of the ship, who worked as extras, had been hijacked in the past, and…
After the Wedding

Jacob, a Scandinavian aid worker (Mikkelsen) manages an orphanage in Mumbai. He is contacted by a potential patron, Jorgen, (Lassgard) and given an unusual offer. After a twenty year absence Jacob reluctantly returns to Copenhagen to try to secure the funding. But there’s something strange about Jorgen’s agenda as he protracts the decision, invites Jacob…
Red Road

Tough, gritty, Scottish drama might be enough to put you some of you off but Red Road is definitely worth the trip. This Cannes Jury Prize-winning film is the first feature film from Andrea Arnold, Oscar-winning director of the short, Wasp. Arnold famously described receiving an Oscar as the dogs bollocks so we know were…
Dancer in the Dark

Dancer in the Dark is the third film in Lars von Trier’s Golden Heart Trilogy – the previous two were Breaking the Waves (1996) and The Idiots (1998). The story centres on Selma (Björk), a Czech immigrant to the US, who works in a factory but has a degenerative eye condition. She is determined to…
Reconstruction

Its a mystery why Alex suddenly leaves the devoted Simone to follow a beautiful woman into the Copenhagen night. Time twists and Simone becomes a stranger to him – his past disappears. To create his future, Alex must return the enigmatic Aimee’s love, but will he have the courage Boe offers us a noir-ish, psychological…