Tove Maës Movies

Racism in the '90s is the underlying theme of this Danish drama. Daniel used to be a highly rated radical TV journalist known for his revolutionary tendencies. Now he is middle-aged, retired and living in his hometown where he has assumed ownership of a photography business. There he begins an affair with lovely Maria, an actress more than half his age. Maria is to play a nude scene with an Arab actor in a new production of Miss Julie. On the night Daniel attends, both actors are tarred and feathered (literally) by local racists. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

This plodding, depressing drama concerns the 19th-century painters who were collectively know as the Skaw (or Skagen) Colony. The group rejected the Impressionist style of painting, opting for the realism of natural light and using the lives of the poor fishing villagers as their inspiration. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

Tired of being left alone by her children who are too caught up in their own lives to pay her much attention, Mrs. Maage (Tove Maes) decides to perk up her isolated existence by offering a 100,000-kroner award (money she does not have) for Felix, her lost Persian cat (she has never owned a cat). The response is truly beyond her wildest dreams -- but at the same time, her son knows all this is a great fraud and instead of seeing her act for what it really was, he is convinced his mother has to be institutionalized. Mrs. Maage is not sure how to get out of that predicament when another senior comes to her rescue, a sleuth in true Hollywood style by the name of Hovard Hansen (Poul Bundgaard, of the Olsen gang movies). Between his trench coat and his Bogart impersonation, he has enough inspiration left over to find the missing Persian cat. The cat, however, is missing from its owner, Dennis the Gangster (Leif Sylvester Petersen) who may not take too kindly to a forced adoption out of his family. Given the activity she has generated by her ad, Mrs. Maage may soon be wishing for a little of the peaceful isolation of her pre-Felix days. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Disturbed by the final departure of her children into lives of their own, Toves Maes plays a woman whose dreams at night turn the conventional world upside-down. In those dreams, men are the homebodies and servants, and women rule the roost. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

This story was first heard as a radio play, Filejsens droem, and was made into a stage play entitled Alting og et posthus. Mrs. Knudsen (Tove Maes) is a middle-aged waitress in a noisy restaurant. When she gets home, there is little relief, and no satisfaction to be found in the equally noisy and often illegal activities of her no-good teenage son and his friends. Her problem is not that they are misbehaving. Far from it. She only wishes she weren't missing all the fun! This Danish language film has no dubbing or subtitles. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

In this science fiction fantasy, a man is able to think of things and make them materialize for a short period of time. He creates a public scene and is brought into a hospital by police. A noted brain surgeon examines the man, who requests an operation in order to allow his creations to last. When the surgeon refuses the operation, the man creates a double of the doctor who marries the physicians fiance, and the doctor finally agrees to perform the surgery on the man. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi