Danish cinema is perhaps best known internationally through the Dogme 95 movement, founded by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, which stripped filmmaking back to raw, unsentimental storytelling. Von Trier has remained one of world cinema's most provocative voices, as Macca's reviews of Nymphomaniac: Vol. I and Vol. II attest. See what he made of Danish cinema below.
Rating: 3.0★
The Faroe Islands, that cluster of eighteen wind-battered specks of rock sitting halfway between Norway and Iceland, have rarely been the subject of narrative fiction film. The archipelago's population at the time of this film's production sat at around 45,000 people, a close-knit
Rating: 4.0★
Female genital mutilation is one of the most widely practised and least openly discussed human rights issues in the world. The World Health Organisation estimates that more than 200 million women and girls alive today have undergone some form of the procedure, with prevalence particularly high across parts of sub-
Rating: 2.0★
There are roughly 56,000 people living in Greenland, spread across one of the largest and most sparsely populated landmasses on Earth. Most of those people are concentrated in the coastal towns of the south and west. Go further north, further still into the frozen periphery, and the communities become
Genre Drama
★ — Only God Forgives (2013)
Genre Drama
★★ — Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
Genre Drama
★★½ — Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Genre Drama
★★★ — Monos (2019)
Genre Comedy
★★½ — Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Genre Drama
★★★★ — Lilya 4-ever (2002)
Genre Documentary
★★½ — Stolen Seas (2013)
Genre Drama
★★★★ — The Worst Person in the World (2021)
Genre Drama
★★ — Winter Brothers (2017)
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