When Animals Dream

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Movie
German title When Animals Dream
Original title Når dyrene drømmer
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 2014
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jonas Alexander Arnby
script Rasmus Birch
production Ditte Milsted , Caroline Schlueter
music Mikkel Hess
camera Niels Thastum
cut Peter Brandt
occupation

When Animals Dream (original title Når dyrene Drømmer ) is a Danish horror - drama from the year 2014 . Directed by Jonas Alexander Arnby .

action

Marie is a shy sixteen year old. She lives in a Danish fishing village with her father and mother, who suffers from an unknown illness and spends her days motionless in a wheelchair. Marie works - like almost all of the villagers - in a fish factory and meets the young Daniel there. She gets a strange rash on her chest with hair growing on it. As her body changes more and more, the other villagers become alarmed and they become hostile and mean towards her. Only Daniel, who fell in love with her, is still turned to her. When Dr. Larsen tries to give her an injection against her will, possibly to stop her transformation and to put her, like her mother, into an immobile state, he is attacked and killed by Mor. As a result, Marie's mother is drowned in the bathtub. Marie, now spurred on with anger and sadness, provocatively displays the changes in her body, such as bleeding fingernails and extreme hair growth, at her mother's funeral until she is interrupted by her father and sent home. The next day, Thor forbids her to go to work and says that if she went out like that, he couldn't do anything for her. Marie defends herself and leaves the house despite the warnings. In the evening she is followed by three motorcyclists, killing one of them. Daniel later finds her in an abandoned fishing trawler and suggests that they leave the village together. Marie agrees, but first goes back to her father's house to take some personal items with her. Including a photograph of her mother. Her father says goodbye to her that she shouldn't put up with anything. But when she wants to meet Daniel, she is surprised and kidnapped by a group of villagers. They kidnap Marie on a boat and take her out to sea. Daniel follows them and can help Marie, who has meanwhile completely transformed into a werewolf, to escape. Marie is now killing everyone on the ship apart from Daniel. The next morning Marie partially changed back again. When she wakes up she asks for Daniel, who replies that he is here, Marie then closes her eyes again. The film ends with Daniel's words: "I'm with you."

criticism

“Arnby's film is a solidly made, contemporary horror film. A cleverly placed suspense, for example, asks the question of whom the vulnerable monster girl can trust. The alternative freak from the fish factory or her good-looking new boyfriend Daniel. Despite a certain Nordic poetry and arthouse ambition, Arnby rarely succeeds in overcoming the genre coventions, as Alfredson did with "LET THE RIGHT ONE IN". "

“In his debut feature film, the Dane Jonas Alexander Arnby condenses classic horror film elements into an unusual coming-of-age story. The fascinating result is a poetic mystery drama, the tone of which is closer to art house cinema than genre film. "

Publications

The world premiere was on May 19, 2014 in France at the Cannes Film Festival . The film opened in cinemas in Denmark and Canada on July 31, 2014. In Germany, the film was released on August 21, 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for When Animals Dream . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 316 K).
  2. ^ Review of When Animals dream. epd film, accessed on August 3, 2018 .
  3. ^ When Animals Dream. In: film starts. Retrieved August 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Release info. In: IMDb . Retrieved September 14, 2014 .