Drew's Thoughts:I heard many awesome things regarding Denmark's entry into the Oscar foreign film race this year including comparisons to David Lynch, Hitchcock and the Coen Bros. in thriller mode. Furthermore, the filmmaker Henrik Ruben Genz discussed how the film was conceived to be a modern day western which you know gets me excited.
All those things are true, and Terribly Happy (Frygtelig Lykkelig in Danish) is a pretty good movie. It chronicles a Copenhagen police officer's transfer to a small Danish village after a brief stay in a mental hospital. The officer enters the village, replacing its former marshal, intending to be strict and by-the-book so he can be transferred back to Copenhagen as quickly as possible but, as you might expect, some things go awry. Supposedly some of the events in the film are based on happenings in the small village that the filmmaker and his friend, who wrote the novel Terribly Happy is based on, grew up in.
The film features a good score by Kåre Bjerkø, and some good camerawork as well. It's a solid contender for Foreign Film Dolphin nom and maybe another thing or two.
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