Terribly Happy
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 13, 2010
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Oscilloscope
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jens Jorgen Spottag, Jakob Cedergren, Niels Skousen, Anders Hove, Lars Brygmann, Lene Maria Christensen, Henrik Lykkegaard, Kim Bodnia & Peter Hesse Overgaard | |
Directed by | Henrik Ruben Genz | |
Screenwriting by | Henrik Ruben Genz & Dunja Gry Jensen | |
Composition by | Kaare Bjerko | |
Director of Photography: | Jørgen Johansson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Genz's tone never falters, down to the bitter end.
Sight and Sound
Lurid and stylish, this 2008 Danish feature plays like a cross between The Postman Always Rings Twice and High Noon, with a dash of Gothic thriller.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 2.5/4 --
"Terribly Happy" is a little light on the plotting, going on narrative autopilot for the last third of the film instead of giving us a few extra turns of the screw for good measure.
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Wisconsin State Journal
Entertaining and full of surprising twists, this highly cinematic tale of a Copenhagen policeman working punishment duty in the provinces plays with genre in a manner that can be compared with the Coen brothers or David Lynch.
Variety
[A] witty, expertly constructed psychological thriller...
New York Times
Not quite a comedy but as darkly comic a crime drama as you'll find, this offbeat modern noir... is a weirdly compelling portrait of a town that has its own sense of justice...
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Seanax.com
3 stars out of 4 -- [A] singularly accomplished bit of filmmaking: at once mysterious, darkly funny, tragic and yet perversely hopeful.
Washington Post
Product Description:
Temporarily reassigned to the provincial Danish town of Skarrild after being accused of professional misconduct in Copenhagen, a by-the-books policeman begins to sense that the hamlet has something truly sinister in its midst in this dark drama based on author Erling Jepsen's novel of the same name. Constable Robert isn't used to life in the country, so when he's first confronted by the small-town customs of South Jutland he begins to feel as if he's drifted into some kind of all-too-quaint alternate reality. But perhaps his suspicion that everything here is just a little too perfect isn't just the result of simple culture shock, because the more Constable Robert gets to know about his new surroundings, the more convinced he becomes that the community of South Jutland harbors a disturbing secret.
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Product Info
- UPC: 896602002173
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