Gosta Engstrom Movies

This Danish drama shows the suffering of the three flawed participants in an unfortunate love-triangle. The ungainly but physically powerful Bent (Benny Hansen) is a driven, obsessed man full of self-hatred. He claims to love his wife Eva (nn-Mari Max Hansen) but physically abuses her. She is in love with Bent's gentle, alcoholic, Peter (Otto Brandenburg). Peter returns her feelings, but he's too weak-willed to help her, or to deal with his alcoholism. The tensions among the trio escalate to a surprising conclusion. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

In this conventional comedy about a stand-up trio who come together again after a 16-year-hiatus to write material for a friend's wedding, the actors add enough of their talents to the script to lighten up the movie, but the narrative is still rather ordinary. Two of the trio were married to each other but have been divorced for awhile. When the ex-wife starts to fall for the other member of the trio -- who is newly-divorced himself, her ex-husband begins to feel pangs of jealousy. Their real problem, however, is how to come up with new material for their skit at the wedding since the years and adulthood seem to have altered their original viewpoints on what is funny. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi