Lars Kjeldgaard Movies

Morten Arnfred's warm comedy Lykkevej (Move Me) begins with Sara (Birthe Neumann) being left by her husband of a quarter century. Sara gets a job and moves into a new home on a street populated by eccentrics. Neighbor Robert (Jesper Lohmann) showers in his backyard, has been in mourning since his wife's death, and annoys his neighbors by keeping junk on his front yard. Sara and Robert tentatively strike up a relationship, while a couple on the street, Sus and Bo (Ditte Gråbøl and Asger Reher), have their own marriage issues to deal with. Move Me was screened at the Gothenburg Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

A bride leaves her groom at the altar, letting a chance occurrence shape her life in this Dutch drama. Kamilla (Trine Dyrholm) is engaged to marry her boyfriend, Henrik (Ulrich Thomsen), but as their wedding day approaches, she becomes more and more hesitant about the idea of tying the knot. Kamilla shows up for the ceremony in Las Vegas, but before she and Henrik can exchange "I Do"'s, she decides to call it off and ends up hitching a ride to parts unknown with Rock (Gareth Williams), a stranger with a motorcycle. Kamilla rides with Rock as far as California, but after an argument she decides to strike out on her own, only to catch a ride with a psychopathic circus clown. Rock catches up with Kamilla just in time and comes to the rescue, and she decides to join him for a trip to Seattle, trying to learn more about his radical social and political views which lead her into an unexpected position of danger. P. O. V. -- Point of View was directed by Tomas Gislason, who has frequently worked with Lars von Trier and here clearly shows the influence of the Dogma 95 school of filmmaking. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

This Danish film has a comic beginning and a tragic end as it follows a Danish man on his quest to find his biological father in Portugal. When Jan, a man in his thirties, suddenly discovers he is adopted he immediately sets out to find his birth parents. His mother, an ex-cabaret singer is not too hard to find. Together the two head off in a taxi to a small town in Portugal to search for dad. Upon arrival, the mother refuses to assist any further and locks herself in her hotel room. As Jan searches, he meets and falls in love with Constanca. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi