A very political film with clear ideas about what’s right and what’s wrong about whaling. We get to know a small group of activists who want to expose the dolphin slaughters of Japan. The film is set up like a heist film – a team is put together, they have special tools, they sneak out [...]
Here are the films I managed to see this year:
The Invention of Dr. Nakamats
Into Eternity
Kim
Karima
Objectified
“Karima”, by Clarisse Hahn, is a film about a young, French dominatrix. We see Karima having dinner, laughing with her family, talking with friends, and – surprise! – fist-fucking her domestic slave and then pissing in his mouth. You don’t just “kinda see”. You see. I didn’t expect that in a cinema full of people. [...]
A beautiful film about the Danish member of the resistance during World War II, Kim Malthe-Bruun. The film is remarkable in that it portrays a lover, more than a fighter. In Denmark Kim is relatively well-known as his letters have been studied in school since the war. His letters and diary entries are full or [...]
Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, who have previously worked on “The Road to Guantanamo”, cast their attention on the work of Naomi Klein. We are in anti-Bush and anti-capitalism territory… which could get boring because we have seen it so many times. All my Red Flags go up with the fast pace of the editing [...]
In the late 90s Swedish, dot-com millionaire O’Casey decided to make a horror/cult/noir film. This doc manages to portray the dot com hype and what it does to the mindset of people caught up in its success. It also attempts to show how group-think (or “mass hypnosis” as Casey calls it) can lead a bunch [...]
It’s November and CPH:DOX is here. Even in case of a Zombie Holocaust I won’t be missing:
