Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Just Another Love Story film posters

Review Summary
Don’t believe the mocking title of the Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal’s lurid neo-noir fantasy, “Just Another Love Story.” This jumpy, high-adrenaline thriller administers a stinging slap in the face to the popular notion of Denmark as one of the happiest places on earth. It is a country, the movie suggests, whose inhabitants — at least the men — seethe with boredom under their facade of contentment. The slaps in the face are literal in a movie in which two of the crazier characters compare themselves to Orpheus and Eurydice and exchange kisses that draw blood. “Just Another Love Story” begins with three seemingly disconnected fragments labeled Love Scenes 1, 2 and 3, and unfolds as a puzzle. As “Just Another Love Story” zigzags between austere realism and surreal gore, you have the not unpleasant sense of being taken for a ride. It may not go anywhere in particular, but it is as exciting as a trip through a well-equipped, scary fun house. — Stephen Holden, The New York Times

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