Directed by:
Christian TafdrupCinematography:
Niels BuchholzerCast:
Anders Juul, Amanda Collin, Rasmus Hammerich, Carla Mickelborg, Søren Hauch-Fausbøll, Vibeke Hastrup, Nicolai Jandorf, Danny Thykær (more)VOD (1)
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When Rasmus meets Marie, he is certain that he has finally met the love of his life. Soon, however, Marie shows herself to be a dominating and demanding creature. Rasmus doesn't count. A story about women who insist on being dominant in a relationship, as seen through the eyes of a man. A truthful portrait of the horrible nature of woman, with a hefty dose of satire. "It's a film about everyday terrorism that women commit on men. It's not because I hate women, it's only because I've spent the last 24 years of my life finding out how to survive in a relationship with them". - Christian Tafdrup (Warsaw Film Festival)
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I guess we all know, often from our own experience, how a woman can wrap a man around her finger. Such relationships abound in everyday life. Then it only depends on what a man allows a woman to do. Christian Tafdrup developed this theme to the extreme in A Horrible Woman. The main character Maria pacified her partner Rasmus so much that he lost himself. Even though Rasmus was aware of everything and it was eating him up inside, it was too late to turn back. (75%)
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Dude Lebowski vs. a fifty-foot-tall woman, with Bruce Lee subtly hinting that the dragon and the big boss are coming. The Danish version of Seth Green's friend tells him in the film not to go into battles that are already lost. But what if he wants to lose them to achieve peace? Aside from two breaking-the-fourth-wall moments after capturing a bird, it’s a down-to-earth relationship film about the ways of dividing into winners and losers, and also about how gray is the theory of submissiveness and the toxic green tree of life. Is there any final lesson? Everyone gets what they deserve.
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A Horrible Woman is an authentic and deeply felt film depicting relatable situations in the type of relationship that
leads to a man’s death.
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If I were the dramaturgist of the film, I would ask the director why he brings a baroque undertone (which I would understand) and a double look of the great Amanda Collin into the camera into his civil, almost improvisationally fluent and realistic method. At that moment, the film feels misogynist, when it otherwise trivializes the relatively ambiguous figure of the "monster". Well-observed situations and a strictly intimate framework help a lot. The name gives it a perhaps unnecessarily clear message - the indecisive and uncertain masculine character brings doubts to this equation of manipulation. It's the story of two people who can't be without each other, but they also can't be together at all. But also a portrait of a man for whom a dominant and manipulative partner is at least an anchor. It’s too bad that this obviously was too little for Tafdrup. Therefore, he added a cheap "devilish" motif. But I do appreciate the observed details and the familiarity.
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