Per Juul Carlsen just can not decide.
The DR journalist is one of the 48 film critics who each year decide who wins Bodils, Denmark’s answer to the Golden Globes.
But unlike their American counterpart, they are significantly older than mainstream Roberts – Denmark’s equivalent of the Oscars.
Nevertheless, despite the difference, the nominations tend to be almost identical … every single year.
“I just can not decide!”
Carlsen has been torn between Mads Mikkelsen and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard for best actor.
“I voted for Mads Mikkelsen to be on the list, because in 2020 he returned to Danish film with flying colors. He helped to elevate Danish film with his roles in ‘Riders of Justice’ and ‘Drunk’, and he carries the lead role in ‘Drunk’ absolutely fantastic, “he said.
“I would also like Mikkel Boe Følsgaard to be praised for his role [in ‘En helt almindelig familie’] as a man who gets a new gender. In the past, you would laugh a bit at the kind of roles where men wear high heels and dress like a woman, but here there is no doubt that it is serious and not played for laughter. ”
Cross-dressing is also a factor in his choice of Trine Dyrholm, who he believes should win her ninth Bodil for ‘Erna at War’, where she pretends to be a man to serve in the army.
“It is not an attempt to downplay the other nominees, but Trine Dyrholm has a much more difficult role. There are many more facets to it. So she had to win that award, ”he said.
Same best movie lineup as Roberts
Next to ‘Drink’, ‘Riders of Justice’ and ‘An Ordinary Family’, ‘Shorta’ and ‘Our Man in America’ are on the shortlist for best film – so exactly the same line-up as Roberts!
Among the other curiosities, Sidse Babett Knudsen has two best female supporting roles nodding for ‘The Exception’ and ‘Meat & Blood’, where she plays a character called ‘Bodil’, while no less than three actors from Druk are ready for best male supporting role: Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe and Magnus Millang.
While the awards for best American and non-American films include many contributions that are so old, they have already been on free-to-air television: from ‘Jojo Rabbit’ and ‘Little Women’ to ‘1917’ and ‘Portrait de the young girl in fire ‘.
Animation film festival starts tomorrow with online program
Which celebrates of diverse animation every year since 2015 has VOID International Animation Film Festival will not let a pandemic get in the way of showing the Scandinavian public another series of fine films. This year’s festival, which starts tomorrow, will be completely online. Essentially aimed at adults who “celebrate animation as an art form that knows no boundaries”, it is available to the people of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Continuing until March 25, most of the films have English subtitles. Watch the movies here.
Controversy over Norwegian series made with Danish support
The Danish actor Søren Pilmark is among the stars of ‘Atlantic Crossing’, a Norwegian series co-produced by DR available on dr.dk, which is currently based by historians for its inaccurate narrative. Fans of Twin Peaks and ‘Bron’ (‘The Bridge’) will be very happy, however, as the series plays the actors behind popular detectives Dale Cooper and Saga Norén – Kyle MacLachlan and Sofia Helin. Unfortunately, they do not join forces to fight crime, but rather play Franklin D Roosevelt and the Norwegian Crown Princess Märtha, and it is claimed in the series that the royal persuaded the US President to help the Allies, not the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The promo line claims “She changed the course of history”, but according to historical author Tor Bomann-Larsen this is “false story” as the couple did not meet in the depicted time frame.
Disney + raises prices and increases library to target adults
Disney + has confirmed that 2021 will be a really big year for the company in Denmark, and already experts predict that it “will be a real competitor to Netflix”. It has announced plans to add 300 titles to the library this month – and to add a total of 1,100 over the course of the year. The monthly subscription costs consequently increase from 59 to 79 kroner, although current users will continue to benefit from the cheaper rate for another six months. Many of the titles will be categorized under the new Star entertainment brand, a service aimed at adults.
Anglophone theater groups draw blanks at CPH Culture Awards – again
None of the English theater groups nominated for the CPH Culture Theater Awards this year ended up winning. The winner of the best adaptation of foreign drama, New Play of the Year After Foreign Publishing Prize, went to Huset Teater for his adaptation of The Great Style Booklet, a French-language play written by the Hungarian playwright Ágota Kristóf. Therefore missing CTC for ‘The Effect’, That Theater Company for ‘The Visit’ and / House of International Theater for ‘Harry Clarke’ and ‘The Shy Manifesto’. The latter three productions missed out on everyone in acting categories. Meanwhile, Why Not Theater Company went out of two nominations for ‘Dance with me’.