In Danish with English subtitles. Official site Good-looking blond yuppies Kresten and Claire enjoy a storybook wedding in Copenhagen, and off they go for their first night of, um, wedded bliss. Detail number one is his brother, Rud, who's not right in the head and now will have nobody to take care of him. Enter Liva, who's fleeing her prostitute job in the city but almost immediately regrets moving into the rickety old farmhouse as a housekeeper. From here, this romance can almost write itself.
Life gets complicated as personalities begin to collide in the small hamlet.
Both statements will prove true for the others but not for our protagonists as the plot unfolds. But if the film is a little obvious, it's also engaging and seductive. The result can be a movie with the grittiness of cinema verite and the electricity of great theater.