The following Scandinavian features will be shown this year. There are some shorts also (some 5 to 8 mins. long) which I did not list here.
DENMARK
Blood in the Mobile (Denmark/Germany)
Saturday, Sept. 17 2:05 PM Park Lane Theatre 4 83 mins.
Deep in the Congo, beyond civilization and law, children and teenagers toil in deadly mines where many die in agony……
The demand driving this death and corruption is for the minerals needed in most electronics today, including the smartphone in your pocket. Director Frank Piasechi Poulsen follows the trail of blood from Africa to your hand.
Le Havre
Thursday, Sept. 22 7:00 PM OXFORD THEATRE 103 mins.
Kaurismaki tells the story of Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and author, who takes in an African refugee boy on the run from the police in the raw French harbour city of the title.
The Scandinavian screen artist achieves brilliant, brittle tone and comedy throughout the quizzical narrative making of Le Havre, one of his finest films and one of this year’s most important European releases
NORWAY
King of Devil’s Island
Friday, Sept. 23 9:30 PM OXFORD THEATRE 120 mins.
In 1915 on the prison island Bastøy, a notorious boys’ home slowly grinds its inmates to their limits. Crushed under the brutal regime of the institution, the desperate young men are ready to listen when a new inmate galvanizes them into a violent uprising. Based on a real incident…..
Stellar performances by legendary Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgărd (Dogville, Breaking the Waves) and newcomer Benjamin Helstad.
NORWAY
The Liverpool Goalie
Thursday, Sept. 22 12:00 PM OXFORD THEATRE
Jo is a good student, but is convinced life is dangerous. In order to survive, he has to avoid deadly dangers at all costs, which according to him include his roughneck classmates. A new girl joins the class and he wants to impress her. Things begin to go awry and gets into hot water. Jo’s last hope is the football card the boys have been pursuing all summer long. The Liverpool goalie card might just save his “life” if such a card even exists.
SWEDEN
The Mill and the Cross
Tues., Sept. 20 9:30 PM OXFORD THEATRE (Poland/Sweden)
Flanders, 1564: Pieter Brugel the Elder’s epic painting The Way to Calvary literally comes to life as the artist, played by Rutger Hauer inhabits and explains his own earthy, rambunctious work. The various narratives of the painting weave in and out of the frame with very little dialogue and a maximum of computer-generated visual splendour.
The Mill and the Cross mixes humour, pathos and drama in a combination not seen on screen since Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev.
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