{"id":11962,"date":"2018-11-04T15:35:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T20:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=11962"},"modified":"2018-11-04T22:36:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T03:36:07","slug":"holiday-film-review-nordic-international-film-fest-greggwmorris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/holiday-film-review-nordic-international-film-fest-greggwmorris\/","title":{"rendered":"HOLIDAY Film Review
Screened at the Nordic International Film Festival 2018
Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ambassador Anne Dorte Riggelsen, Consulate General, Denmark, Ingrid Rudefors, Festival Manager, former European Film Commissioner; Linnea Larsdotter, Founder & Creative Director); Johan Matton, Founder & Festival Director: Salutations to packed screening included a blunt caveat: The film contains a scene of sexual violence that is beyond belief.<\/p><\/div>\n

131 minutes, <\/strong>English
\nDirector: <\/strong>Isabella Ekl\u00f6f
\nWriters:<\/strong> Johanne Algren, Isabella Ekl\u00f6f
\nStars: <\/strong>Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde, Thijs R\u00f6mer
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Thought the review should begin with succinct comments of praise for the film \u2013 before I cut to the chase.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera” \u2013 IMDB. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Devastating Danish Drama Has the Most Unsettling Rape Scene Since \u2018Irreversible\u2019<\/a> \u2014 IndieWire.com<\/em><\/p>\n

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Like a crafty predator, the Danish knock-out HOLIDAY lays patiently in wait as long as it needs to \u2014 in this case nearly an hour \u2014 before stunning its prey, the spectator, with a shocking scene that catapults the film to a whole different level \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In the video below, stage left, <\/em>Ambassador Anne Dorte Riggelsen, Consulate General (Denmark), warns the audience to be prepared to be diabolically disturbed at what they are going to see. She didn’t use the word “diabolically” but I believe it’s an appropriate paraphrase of what she said. She also says the film is revelatory about the dark side of Nordic nations.<\/em> A foretelling of Director Isabella Eklof’s denouement?<\/p>\n

Just how unusual is that at a screening? And from a big government official?<\/p>\n