Mid90s is shot in the best 90's underground style on 16mm film and contains (far too much) 90s pop music. The time frame and moods are very believable in the film's simple and diminutive choreography. Overall, the cinematic experience is characterized by the simple - and thus all the more surprising. Where the film is at its deepest insight is in the portrait of 13-year old Stevie, as he fumbles into the coveted recognition, with all that it entails of roller coasters. "Mid90s" wins a lot from Sunny Suljic's impressively strong lead role performance.
Reviews
3 Reviews
Offscreen
(2006)
Forget about mainstream
9 September 2006
Danish writer/director Christoffer Boe leaves no seat dry and no mind bored with this intense and rare movie. Not necessarily provocative, not 'art cinema', just plain and simple genius. Really a must-see for those who think they've seen everything or for those who just about had enough of mainstream (Danish) cinema. Christoffer Boe is one of indeed very few Danish directors who has a mission with his art, besides reaching a great audience. "Offscreen" will never be a box office hit but a fantastic movie to watch now and then - to those of us who find movie-making a delicate art and not JUST a mass media for entertainment. This movie is the third from the director and is indeed his most thought-provoking - with amazing acting from great Danish actor Nicolas Bro. You've never seen anything like this - - !
Familien Gregersen
(2004)
Expanded widescreen family melodrama
11 March 2006
Almost four hours of compressed dysfunctional family melodrama based on the Danish author Christian Kampmann's four novels from the 70's.
Hard to swallow, told with no humour. The images are sharp and well-composed but with no personality and hardly thought as anything else but technical show-off.
For those unfamiliar to Danish movies: don't think this is the standard of a "normal" Danish movie.
Bad acting and fatal casting make this hard to watch - even as a historical tour de force of Danish everyday life in the past decades. First and foremost overlong without a cause.
Hard to swallow, told with no humour. The images are sharp and well-composed but with no personality and hardly thought as anything else but technical show-off.
For those unfamiliar to Danish movies: don't think this is the standard of a "normal" Danish movie.
Bad acting and fatal casting make this hard to watch - even as a historical tour de force of Danish everyday life in the past decades. First and foremost overlong without a cause.
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