Mifune (Danish Movie)

Kresten is enjoying life as a successful businessman and a newlywed (he's just married the boss' daughter). But when he receives a phone call informing him of his father's untimely passing, his comfortable new life is thrown into turmoil. He's kept his poor, small-town and retarded brother, a secret from his new wife and her family and must sneak away to settle family business before his cover is blown...

This movie is OK... nothing special.

The only thing that this movie has to do with Toshiro Mifune is that the main dude acts like Mifune so his retarded brother will settle down. And he acts scenes from "The Seven Samurai". Also in real life the actor has a tattoo that is a Japanese Crest in which he didn't know.

Here he is acting like Mifune for his retarded brother...

Miss_apollo7, have you seen this movie?

My sister-in-law gave us this movie as Christmas present a few years ago.
I thought this movie was crappy.

Like many other "Dogme" movies, this one had a really bad lighting, editing was so choppy, and it was boring.
"King Is Alive" was good Dogme movie.

Nothingness said:

Miss_apollo7, have you seen this movie?

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No, I haven't seen it yet...Would like to though, as it is supposed to be very entertaining...

I think the Dogme films are very entertaining, my favourites are: "Festen" and "The Idiots."

misa.j said:

My sister-in-law gave us this movie as Christmas present a few years ago.
I thought this movie was crappy.

Like many other "Dogme" movies, this one had a really bad lighting, editing was so choppy, and it was boring.
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Well, this is the intention with the Dogme films, especially a good alternative to the "perfect" edited films. Especially when they bring amateurs to play some of the parts, it is more entertaining and a contribution for this art.

the Dogma Manifesto in its entirety is:

Rule 1

Shoot on location only, i. e. not on sets



Rule 2

Use sound only during the shot, don't lay it in afterwards



Rule 3

Shoot handheld, i. e. no use of tripods!



Rule 4

Don't use black and white films, use natural light only.
If this is not sufficient, a lamp might be attached to the camera,
No use of further sources of light.



Rule 5

Don't use filters, no special effects.



Rule 6

No superficiality, no murder, no weapons.



Rule 7

No temporal or geographical alienation



Rule 8

No genre pieces



Rule 9

Film format: Academy 35 mm
(i. e. 4 : 3 frame ratio, no wide screen)



Rule 10

The director must not be credited.
He must also refrain from personal taste.
He must press exclusively the "authenticity" out of actors and locations, however aesthetic or not the result.


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but they CHEAT! they use the headlights of cars outside windows and such.. (this has been admited in later years )

Bad von Trier! BAD!