Christian Tafdrup Movies
- 2008
Director Spencer Parsons explores the subtle ways that a sudden connection can unexpectedly alter the course of one's life with this tale of a Danish tourist and a Texas waitress who form an unusually strong bond after partaking in what both assumed would be a typical one-night stand. In the wake of their physical connection, the vacationing Dane and attractive young waitress couldn't seem to say anything meaningful. Regardless of their inability to vocalize it, however, something in each of them seemed to recognize that they were bonded together by a powerful mutual attraction that could be the beginning of something beautiful. When he leaves for the airport she writes her number on his arm - a simple gesture that has profound results. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Melonie Diaz, Jon Lange, (more)
- 2006
When an infamous porno star dies after a drug overdose, her clergyman brother returns to town to care for her five-year-old daughter and seek revenge against the people responsible for her decline in director Anders Morgenthaler's animated stylish animated thriller. As "Princess," Christina had earned fame as one of the adult film industry's most popular stars, but years of drug abuse have finally taken their toll. When Christina finally succumbs to her addiction, her brother, August, takes a furlough from his missionary work overseas to lay his sister to rest and look after her young daughter, Mia. August isn't your typical man of the cloth, though, because when he finds out exactly how his sister died, he brings Mia along on a mission of revenge that will find the pair embarking on a violent descent through the darkest depths of the inner-city underworld to clear his sister's name and dish out a little vigilante justice -- Old Testament style. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thure Lindhardt, Stine Fischer Christensen, (more)
A multi-millionaire wants to know how much his money can really buy in this drama from Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier. Though born and raised in Denmark, Jacob Peterson (Mads Mikkelsen) has made a life for himself in India, where he runs an orphanage for homeless children. While Jacob cares little for money, raising funds is part of the responsibilities of his position, and when he learns that Jørgan (Rolf Lassgård), a wealthy Danish businessman, is willing to donate four million dollars under the condition that he meet with him in person, Jacob grudgingly hops a flight back home. Once in Denmark, Jørgan insists that Jacob attend the wedding of his daughter the next day; at the celebration he meets Jørgan's wife, Helene (Sidse Babett Knudsen), whom he recognizes as someone he knew many years ago. As Jacob finds himself revisiting a past he would prefer to forget, he discovers that Jørgan has an ulterior motive for bringing him to Denmark -- the wealthy man is in poor health, and while the donation will help ease some of his guilt over a life of avarice, he's also looking for someone to take over as Helene's husband after he dies. Efter Brylluppet (aka After the Wedding) received its North American premiere at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mads Mikkelsen, Rolf Lassgård, (more)
A dejected beauty salon owner enters into a tenuous friendship with her shy, pre-operative transsexual neighbor in director Pernille Fischer Christensen's simmering tale of affection and compassion. Thirty-two year old Charlotte (Trine Dyrholm) may own a successful beauty salon, but her failing relationship with increasingly unstable live-in boyfriend Kristian (Frank Thiel) has found her opting to strike out on her own for a change. As Charlotte embarks on a series of strictly sexual one-night stands upstairs, downstairs neighbor Veronica (David Dencik) - born Ulrick - earns her keep as a dominatrix while taking female hormones, awaiting approval for gender reassignment surgery, and occasionally accepting provisions from his doting mother (Elsebeth Steentoft). When Charlotte requests the help of her downstairs neighbor in moving some furniture and carelessly identifies Veronica as a male, the depressive pre-op laments her chances for surgery and attempts to overdose on pills. Her suicide-attempt unexpectedly announced to her neighbors thanks to her whimpering dog Miss Daisy, Veronica is subsequently saved when Charlotte hears the animal's desperate cries and rushes her ailing neighbor to the hospital. Her selfless favor returned when Veronica defends her against a drunken Kristian shortly thereafter, lonely Charlotte eventually finds herself developing strong feelings for her neighbor despite her longstanding preference for the opposite sex. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Trine Dyrholm, David Dencik, (more)
His single mother has been seeing some men whose presence in the house makes it impossible for thirteen-year old Nick (Christian Tafdrup) to remain. He finds shelter with a man named Ralph (Stig Hoffmeyer), who enjoys him as a sexual boy-toy until his girlfriend comes back from wherever she's been. Nick, living on the streets, does a little hustling to get by until he gets involved with a gang led by Rene (Danish pop star Dicte), a girl posing as a boy. The two even become lovers for a time, but events accelerate and Nick once again confronts his treacherous confidante, Ralph. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christian Tafdrup, Dicte, (more)
