Alting bliver godt igen

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Movie
Original title Alting bliver godt igen
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish , English , Czech
Publishing year 2010
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Christoffer Boe
script Christoffer Boe
production Tine Grew Pfeiffer
music Sylvain Chauveau
camera Manuel Alberto Claro
cut Peter Brandt
occupation

Alting bliver godt igen (translation: Everything will be fine again) is a Danish political thriller from 2010 by Christoffer Boe .

action

Jacob Falk is a screenwriter who is under a lot of professional stress. He has to meet an agreed deadline and neglects his beloved Helena and the planning of an upcoming adoption. During a night drive on Holmbrovej in Ramløse, he runs into a young man. Despite his serious injuries, he refuses any help and just wants Jacob to take his bag. It turns out that the victim was the young Muslim Ali, who was recruited by the military secret service as a civilian interpreter for the war in the Danish camp Vinking because of his knowledge of Persian and Arabic . Ali witnessed brutal torture methods carried out on prisoners. After an early release due to "shoulder pain and mental instability", he smuggled photo evidence from the camp and was henceforth monitored and followed by the secret service.

While searching the bag, Jacob finds Alis evidence and shows it to his older sister, Siri. She establishes contact with a befriended investigative journalist , Michael. Michael wants a 120% security in the matter and therefore insists on a direct conversation with Ali, who however disappeared without a trace after the accident. Jacob suspects that he himself has already been put under surveillance, he sees a potential threat and danger in every person. Over the course of the year, he becomes paranoid and believes that they are systematically trying to ruin his life: his beloved Helena disappears, the papers for the planned adoption were filled out incorrectly by a certain Karl Nyhansen. In his desperation, Jacob has no choice but to ambush Nyhansen, who previously killed Ali and his girlfriend Mira, in his house. However, he only finds a loving family man there and realizes that something is wrong with the whole story. Finally, he is picked up by Siri, to whom he confesses that he is to blame for everything and that his work is above his family.

Czech Republic, 6 months earlier: Helena and Jacob are extremely in love and are eagerly waiting for their upcoming adoption of little Serge. Both have eyes for themselves and it is only by chance that Helena mentions an article about an interpreter who testifies against Danish war torture. But that seems unimportant, because they are already expected by Claudia, who will accompany them during the adoption process. But it doesn't come to that anymore, because when registering it turns out that the documents have not been filled out correctly, which is why the adoption has to be canceled. And that turns Helena against Jacob, after all he should take care of the documents and check that everything is correct. But even this smallest matter he just couldn't fulfill because of his obsession with his job. So Helena runs away from him screaming and is hit by a truck on the street and run over. Jacob can only crawl under the truck and find out that she is dead.

criticism

Since the film is "far more ambitious in its content than Boe's earlier films," said Sophie Engberg Sonne on the Danish website ibyen.dk , it could be seen as a "classic paranoia thriller " on the one hand and as an "existential drama, a war film, a stirring piece and on the other a playful, experimental film ”. She also said that Boe not only plays with the thriller genre and presents a mainstream film, but also with the romance drama a story behind the story, so that it is "a pleasure to switch between fiction and reality".

Although the story “sounds like a standard TV thriller”, said Liselotte Michelsen in the Danish daily Dagbladet Information , it is much more than that because “the contrasting world of images [Claros and Boes] plays with the medium of film and yearning of the audience to be seduced into fictional worlds ”, the film“ breaks the linear narrative structure and allows a series of stories to unfold ”.

On the Danish website Dr.dk , Per Juul Carlsen gave the film four out of six stars and said that the "really tricky film [...] difficult to explain", but "clearly the best and most satisfying film" was Boes. Overall, the film consists of "many well-functioning scenes" that are presented by Claro's "good choice of actors" and the "special feeling for color [and] unusually dreamy and beautiful visual style".

Despite the excellent craftsmanship, the film is nothing more than a “genre exercise that has turned out well,” said Boyd van Hoeij in Variety magazine, because “Boe's trademark ingenuity and the subordination of characters to the story” are missing from the film. It even seems that despite the good editing and exciting music, Boe is so "obsessed with his complicated storytelling techniques that the story would be more about plot points than about people". And this would continue with Manuel Alberto Claro's camerawork , which is "striking but not original" as it only focuses on tilt-shift photography and lens flare .

background

Boe wrote the script for four years after meeting documentary filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen after his television documentary Den hemmelige krig was released in 2006 and discussing Denmark's involvement in the war on terror . Boe found inspiration above all in the works of Jean-Luc Godard , Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock and optically especially in the Nouvelle Vague . The movie poster was based heavily on Hitchcock's film Vertigo - From the Realm of the Dead .

In Denmark in 2010 there was a discussion about the production of domestic theatrical films. On the one hand, the tough, realistic films such as R , Submarino and Camp Armadillo and, on the other hand, the fictional, artistically demanding and experimental films such as Alting bliver godtigen and Walhalla Rising were compared as two categories. And despite excellent Danish reviews and artistic standards, the film is viewed as an absolute flop in Denmark, as it only attracted 11,000 viewers to the cinemas.

Awards (selection)

publication

Alting bliver godt igen had its world premiere and its Danish theatrical release on January 28, 2010. It was then shown at some film festivals such as the Cannes International Film Festival , the Stockholm International Film Festival and the São Paulo International Film Festival , as well as a few other countries published as Hungary , Turkey and Brazil . No German publication is planned so far. (As of October 7, 2011)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sophie Engberg Sonne: Ny dansk thriller driller audience ( Memento from September 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Danish)
  2. ↑ Liselotte Michelsen: Boes labyrint on information.dk of January 27, 2010 (Danish), accessed on October 7, 2011
  3. ↑ Per Juul Carlsen: Fiffige filmiske pointer ( Memento from April 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Danish)
  4. ↑ Boyd Van Hoeij: Everything Will Be Fine ( Memento from August 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  5. ↑ Christian Monggaard: 'Krigen er et spejl på, hvordan vi ser os selv' on information.dk of January 26, 2010 (Danish), accessed on October 7, 2011
  6. ↑ Christian Monggaard: Uforsonlig eller eksperimenterende on information.dk of December 28, 2010 (Danish), accessed on October 7, 2011
  7. ↑ Michael Bo: Brilleabe-instruktøren går mainstream ( Memento from July 16, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (Danish)