Tvilling (2003)

Director:

Hans Fabian Wullenweber

Writers:

Janus Nabil Bakrawi (writer)
Hans Fabian Wullenweber (writer)

Release Date:

7 November 2003 (Denmark)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Hvor langt vil du gå for at opleve kærligheden?

Plot:

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Janus Nabil Bakrawi	...	Lars
Trine Dyrholm	...	Julie
Karen-Lise Mynster	...	Marianne, Julies Mother
Asger Reher	...	Ib, Julies Father
André Babikian	...	Søren
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Stig Hoffmeyer	...	Valdemar
Christiane Bjørg Nielsen	...	Mie
Peter Thorneman	...	Statoil ansat
Lene Tiemroth	...	Gunilda

Also Known As:

7eleven (Denmark) (working title)
Gemini (International: English title)

Runtime:

Denmark:91 min

Country:

Denmark

Language:

Danish

Colour:

Colour | Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Denmark:11

Filming Locations:

Frederiksberg, Denmark

Company:

Nimbus Film Productions

Trivia:

Originally Lars was to be called Nikolaj, but then the danish tv-series "Nikolaj og Julie" (2002), became a big hit, so they changed his name to Lars.

Silence is gold

Lars has dedicated his life to two things, his job at a local gas station and his old mother who won't let the social workers take care of her, cause as she puts it "no one can take better care of me than you (Lars)" Lars falls in love with the girl downstairs who wakes up after a passout(a result of a (possible) brain damage she recieved in the carcrash where her boyfriend Søren was killed) and thinks that Lars is Søren. Lars pretends to be Søren to be close to Julie, but soon both his mother and Julie parents starts to get involved in the affair. Tvilling is directed by Hans Fabian Wullenweber, who also directed the succesfull movie "Klatretøsen". He has created a movie that seems to be a standard piece of social realism but turns out to be a unique movie. The camera is offend turned 90 or 180 degrees and intensive filming is making every little scene special. There is very little dialog in movie, instead everything is expressed through the actors body language and the actors manage to do it in a subliminal way. The "missing" dialog is throughout the movie replaced with great instrumental music. The story of Social disabled Lars, who is caught up between the physical disabled Mother and the mental disabled Julie is very interesting and told in cynical way, that creates a movie without one single doll moment, this is the best danish languaged movie since Festen (The Celebration).