Hello
everyone,
For our wednesday film zoom discussion, I am suggesting
a Danish movie "Lykke-Per (A Fortunate Man)" directed by Bille August.
(more details below).
It is available on Netflix
Hope you can watch it and help discuss it during
next wednesday's zoom meet-up.
Regards,
Tom Co
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Title: Lykke-Per (A Fortunate Man)
Director: Bille August
Partial List of Characters:
Esben Smed
Katrine Greis-Rosenthal
Benjamin Kitter
Julie Christiansen
Tommy Kenter
Tammi Øst
Rasmus Bjerg
Ole Lemmeke
Sara Viktoria Bjerregaard Christensen
Sophie-Marie Jeppesen
US Rating: PG-13
Language: Danish and German (with English subtitles)
Length: 162 mins
Available through: Netflix
Summary: (by www.imdb.com)
"In the late 19th century, Peter Sidenius is an ambitious
young man from a devout Christian family in Western Denmark,
who travels to the Danish capital of Copenhagen to study
engineering, rebelling against his clergyman father. He
comes into contact with the intellectual circles of a
wealthy, Jewish family and seduces the elder daughter,
Jakobe. Per, as he now calls himself, conceives a
large-scale engineering project including the construction
of a series of canals in his native Jutland, and lobbies
for its construction. But just as Per seems to be about
to make his dreams come true, his pride stands in the way."
My Comments:
Well-acted and directed. The main character is kind of hard
to take. The last movie we had ("Mudbound")included an
engineer
who was pragmatic, utilitarian and arrogant, this movie seems
to be another movie with an engineer that is pragmatic,
utilitarian
and arrogant. Maybe this is what the image of engineers are
as far as literature goes...(I can't say they are 100% wrong.)
One interesting note from wikipedia:
"The film is based upon the eight-volume novel translated
into English as Lucky Per, written by Danish Nobel
Prize-winning author Henrik Pontoppidan. It was originally
published between 1898 and 1904."
So the almost three hours movie shown is probably quite a
shortened version of the original novel. The novel must
have
more details of how Denmark was around 1800's. Some reviewers
claim that this novel is very well known in Denmark so the
director must have quite a task to not disappoint.
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