Karen-Lise Mynster Movies
- 2007
In this comedy, Sebastian (Oliver Moller Knauer) is a handsome but shy young man living in a small town in Denmark who is cursed with a stutter. Sebastian is in love with a beautiful girl, Claudia (Helene Reingaard Neumann), who has agreed to marry him. However, Claudia isn't Sebastian's first love, and a chance meeting with his old girlfriend Maria (Ronja Mannov Olesen) leads to him being unfaithful to his fiancée for the first time. Sebastian could use some advice from a male role model, but the town is abuzz because Karl Kristian Schmidt (Thomas Bo Larsen), a internationally famous opera singer who is the village's most famous son, is coming home for a visit and no one has time to talk to him. Sebastian decides to ask his mother what to do and she makes a surprising confession -- while she's always told Sebastian his dad was killed in a train accident not long before he was born, the truth is Schmidt fathered him during a brief fling before he left town to seek his fortune. Now Sebastian is determined to meet the great singer during his brief visit, and it turns out Schmidt has plenty of advice for his long-lost son. En Mand Kommer Hjem (aka When A Man Comes Home) received its American premiere at the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Oliver Møller Knauer, Thomas Bo Larsen, (more)
- 2007
A mother and daughter clash over their conflicting views on intimacy and communication in this unusual independent drama from filmmaker Linda Wendel. Sally (Mille Hoffmeyer Lehfeldt) is a young woman who earns her living by appearing on an adult webcam service, where she performs sexual acts while an audience watches on the internet. Sally's career as a cyberspace sex worker stems from her negative feelings towards her mother Janne (Karen-Lise Mynster), a free spirited woman whose embrace of free love alienated Sally as a child. Looking for revenge against her mom, Sally returns home for a visit and meets Janne's latest lover, Lennart (Jesper Christensen). Sally hopes to hurt her mother by luring Lennart into bed, leading to an ugly confrontation. As its title suggests, One Shot was filmed in one continuous, unedited 78-minute take; it was one of two films shot in this manner that was screened at the 2008 Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival, along with Josh Melin's Preludium. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mille Hoffmeyer Lehfeldt, Karen-Lise Mynster, (more)
- 2002
A Danish family attempts to cope with the death of their mother in director Annette K. Olesen's bittersweet family drama Sma Ulykker (Minor Mishaps). When Ulla (Vigga Bro) dies in a sudden, tragic mishap, husband John (Jorgen Kill) attempt to balance his loss by forming a closer relationship with daughter Marianne (Maria Wurgler Rich. Suspecting that the realtionship may be taking on unhealthy undertones, Marianne's sister Eva (Jannie Faurschou) voices her concern to self-absorbed businessman brother Tom (Henrik Pip), who eschews concerns for his family in favor of more pressing personal issues. As the immidiate family continues to deal with the loss and the resulting effects it has on thie interaction, uncle Soren (Jesper Christensen)'s marriage seems to be falling apart at the seams as the result of his wife Marianne's (Karne-Lise Mynster) attraction to co-worker Martin (Oliver Appelt Nielson). ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jorgen Kill, Maria Wurgler Rich, (more)
The Dogma 95 movement has seen some searing looks into the human condition but rarely a romantic comedy -- until now. Veteran Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig spins this deadpan look at a group of lovelorn outsiders living in a grey corner of Copenhagen. After the perennially foul-tempered minister of a local church is fired after doing great injury to the organist, Andreas moves to the area to take over the parish. Staying in a hotel until his predecessor can be wrested from the rectory, Andreas befriends the establishment's scatter-brained manager, Jørgen, who is utterly in love with a beautiful Italian barmaid working at a nearby pub run by Hal-Finn. When the irascible Hal-Finn is chastised by the bar's owner for his unkempt appearance, he goes to a local salon where he meets Karen, a comely hairdresser harried by her grasping mom. Meanwhile, Andreas falls for a lethally klutzy pastry shop assistant named Olympia. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anders W. Berthelsen, Peter Gantzler, (more)
- 1992
Based on the 1932 novel Mendel Philipsen and Son by Henri Nathansen, Sofie was adapted for the screen by celebrated actress Liv Ullmann, making her directorial debut. Beginning in Copenhagen during the late 1880s, Sofie (Karen-Lise Mynster) is a devoted Jewish daughter who falls in love with the Gentile painter Hojby (Jesper Christensen). Her parents, Semmy (Erland Josephson) and Frederikke (Ghita Nørby), don't approve of the relationship, so they encourage her to marry her mentally ill cousin, a Swedish shopkeeper named Jonas (Torben Zeller). She gives birth to a son, but their already loveless marriage becomes further complicated when Sofie develops an interest in her brother-in-law Gottleib (Stig Hoffmeyer). Jonas is inconsolable after the death of his mother (Kirsten Rolffes), so much so that Sofie has him institutionalized and takes over his business. Years later, Sofie returns to Copenhagen with her son to help her aging parents and attend an auction where she reunites with Hojby. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Karen-Lise Mynster, Erland Josephson, (more)
- 1992
Young Krumme and his boisterous family have moved into a new home, an older place with many unexplored booms and corners. While investigating the basement, he discovers some money put there by some bank robbers, who mean to get it out any way they can. However, the robbers soon prove they are no match for the young man and his very active family. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dick Kaysoe, Karen-Lise Mynster, (more)
- 1988
When their special place in the woods in threatened by an evil real estate developer, seven school kids put aside their differences to fight for the forest. They enlist the help of a human fairy queen to stop the proposed housing project. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sune Carlsson Kolster, Sara Danielle Arentsen, (more)
- 1985
In this intellectually sophisticated children's story, young John (Jacob Katz) has been under a lot of pressure because his parents are divorced and his mother will not let his father come see him. So when John has a dream about Jesus -- who turns out to be an impoverished little girl, in this case -- he is bound to feel better. The girl-Jesus has her own way of coming into and out of the picture but teaches John that no one is all bad or all good. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jacob Katz, Ina-Miriam Rosenbaum, (more)
- 1985
Ole Ernst plays Peter von Scholten in this historical film biography. Appointed by King Frederick VI (Henning Moritzen) as governor of the Virgin Islands, Peter fights for the education and liberation of the island's black residents, former slaves, while keeping a black mistress on the islands and a wife at home in Denmark. Peter establishes schools for the children and avoids a bloody insurgence from locals bent on violent overthrow of the government. The former governor is charged with treason and dies a dejected man soon after the unfair charges are overturned. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ole Ernst, Jesper Langberg, (more)
- 1982
When a doctor sets up his practice in a new town he is drawn to the case of a mentally disturbed daughter living with her mother in a mansion on a hillside above the town, a daughter who believes she has murdered her father, even though the father was said to have committed suicide. As the doctor works with his patient, he finds that a wealthy, powerful local man and the town's police are trying to keep him away from the issue of the father's death. Did the rich town magnate actually murder the father? Did the mother? Why is the daughter convinced that she killed her father? These questions get a little buried in the imagery that crawls to the finish line, evoking poetic symbols but skillfully evading the dramatic proposals raised at the beginning of the story. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dick Kaysoe, Pia Vieth, (more)
- 1980
A young couple struggling with sterility is the subject of this below-average Danish kitchen-sink drama typical of the 1970s. Susanne (Karen Lise Mynster) and Morten (Jesper Christensen) want children like anybody else, but Morten proves to be sterile. They go through the inevitable hospital tests and start seeing other people. The marriage is on the verge of collapse, but true love ultimately keeps it together. The film was director Aase Schmidt's first feature after many years of stage work. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Karen-Lise Mynster, Jesper Christensen, (more)
