The Best Movies to Watch In Danish on Criterionchannel
Denmark gave us Lars von Trier, Vigo Mortensen and Mads Mikkelsen, and also boasts the most solid track record at the Oscars’s for Best International Feature, with 10 nominations and three wins. Here are the best Danish-language to stream now.
language: Danish
On the one hand, Godland is a film about nature’s unforgiving beauty. Like the photographs the priest Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove) takes, these quietly superb scenes speak for themselves. The Earth moves in mysterious and harsh ways, and we are but mere specks, organic matter to be folded in and absorbed, in the grand scheme […]
Whilst a classic in some circles, Festen is many things, but it’s definitely not mainstream entertainment. It was shot by Danish director, Thomas Vinterberg, who founded the Dogme 95 movement together with Lars von Trier in 1995, which sought to put the auteur director back at the heart of filmmaking, as opposed to the power […]
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x8Sisters Martine and Filippa, daughters of a founder of a religious sect, live a simple and quiet life in a remote coastal village in Denmark. Throughout the course of their lives, they reject possible romances and fame as part of their commitment to deny earthly attachments. This is upended by the sudden arrival of a […]
With the austere ethos of Dogme 95, most Dogme films tend to be naturalistic, serious dramas, dealing with heavy topics. Italian for Beginners is a Dogme film, but it’s one of the only lighthearted comedies considered to be one. It makes for a more casual, realistic approach to the romantic comedy, as students in an […]
Mifune is a twisted take on the found family. The father is a lying, cheating businessman, the stepmother is a call girl turned housekeeper for them, and the child isn’t even a child at all– he’s Kresten’s adult brother that has a vaguely defined mental disorder that requires special care. It’s a weird, interesting subversion […]