Tag: Scandinavian Film Festival
[film review] Better Times [Bedre tider]
4/5 Review by John P. Harvey. In the five years since the death of their mother, brothers Karl (Sebastian Jessen), ...
Eternal [For evigt] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2024
2.5/5 Review by John P. Harvey. As a young man, Elias (Viktor Hjelmsø) meets and falls in love with Anita ...
The Tundra Within Me [Eallougierdu] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2024
5/5 Review by John P. Harvey. Sámi artist Lena (Risten Anine Kvernmo Gaup) returns from Oslo to her home town ...
The Land of Short Sentences [Meter i sekundet] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2023
Review by John P. Harvey. Rasmus (Thomas Hwan) and Marie (Sofie Torp) and their infant son, Moo, have been happily ...
One Day All This Will Be Yours [En dag kommer allt det här bli ditt] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2023
Review by Michele E. Hawkins. Lisa (Karen Franz Körlof), a successful newspaper cartoonist, is invited to join her siblings at ...
Let the River Flow [Ellos eatnu — La elva leve] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2023
Review by John P. Harvey. It is 1979, in the Norwegian town of Alta. Ester (Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen), a ...
Fathers & Mothers [Fædre & mødre] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2023
Review by John P. Harvey. Twelve-year-old Hannah (Ida Skelbæk-Knudsen) is going to have to change schools yet again. Her parents, ...
The Grump: In Search of an Escort [Mielensäpahoittaja Eskorttia etsimässä] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2023
Review by Michele E. Hawkins. Mielensäpahoittaja (the grump), played by Heikki Kinnunen, lives and works on his ancestral farm in ...
Nothing to Laugh About [Ingenting å le av] — Scandinavian film Festival 2022
Review by John P. Harvey. Having, as he puts it, stopped paying attention to life and his part in it, ...
Margrete — Queen of the North [Margrete den første] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2022
Review by John P. Harvey. The year is 1402. It is 15 years since Denmark’s Queen Margrete (Trine Dyrholm) gave ...
