Réalisation:
Christian TafdrupPhotographie:
Niels BuchholzerActeurs·trices:
Anders Juul, Amanda Collin, Rasmus Hammerich, Carla Mickelborg, Søren Hauch-Fausbøll, Vibeke Hastrup, Nicolai Jandorf, Danny Thykær (plus)Résumés(1)
Rasmus, un célibataire endurant, tombe sous le charme de Marie. Mais l’amour fou se mute bientôt en quelque chose de plus malsain ; la belle cache plus d’un tour dans son sac. (Neuchâtel International Fantastic FF)
Critiques (5)
Authentique et profondément ressenti, le type de relation de couple présenté dans des situations de référence qui signifie la mort de l'homme.
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Un film relationnel danois très intéressant qui, à mon avis, laisse peu de spectateurs et spectatrices indifférents. Pour ma part, je n’arrêtais pas de me demander quelles pouvaient bien être les perspectives masculine et féminine par rapport à ce film. Sans vouloir me ranger dans un camp ou dans l’autre, j’ai trouvé que celui-ci manquait l’équilibre en offrant peu d’occasions aux gens de sympathiser avec Maria. Cela dit, j'ai réalisé que le but ici n'était pas d'examiner une relation entre deux personnes et son évolution à travers les étapes classiques des beaux débuts jusqu’aux moments critiques, mais plutôt d'examiner la manière dont Mme Dominante rencontre M. Soumis. Il aurait pu être bénéfique de pouvoir suivre, en parallèle, une autre relation où les rôles auraient été intervertis. Mais l’un dans l’autre, je suis satisfait. C’est clairement le genre de film qui peut générer des discussions passionnantes entre cinéphiles.
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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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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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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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