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'Open Hearts'
Times Staff Writer"Open Hearts," Denmark's official Oscar entry for foreign-language film, has a wonderfully apt title. The film explores how people deal with the aftermath of a catastrophe that upends the lives of a young couple and of a doctor and his family. What...Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Sex, Children, Denmark, Lars von Trier
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Movie review, 'Open Hearts'
Tribune staff reporterWhen one life is destroyed, the emotional and physical collateral damage topples those directly and tangentially connected to the event. In "Open Hearts," a car crushes Joachim's (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) spine an instant after he kisses his fiancee, Cecilie...Tags: Death, Crime, Law and Justice, Lars von Trier, Family, Health
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'Flickering Lights'
Times Staff WriterAnders Thomas Jensen's "Flickering Lights" may have been a huge hit in Denmark, but it doesn't travel well. A bleak male-bonding comedy that's a queasy blend of brutal humor and escalating sentimentality, it is overlong, heavy-handed, slow and...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Dining and Drinking, Diplomacy, Entertainment, Assault
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Movie review: 'King Arthur'
Tribune Movie Critic2-1/2 stars (out of 4) What happens when two big-time, street-savvy Hollywood moviemakers, a couple of guys who often seem most comfortable firing off guns and crashing cars all over L.A., sink their teeth into the Middle Ages and the legend of King...Tags: Krzysztof Kieslowski, The Amistad, Marcus Aurelius, Entertainment, Keira Knightley
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'Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself'
Times Staff WriterA man rushes into his apartment, desperate to begin swallowing the pills in his hand. He's looking for relief, but not the standard kind. As the title of this unusual and unusually moving film tells us, "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself." A bleakly comic co-...Tags: Shirley Henderson, Romance (genre), Entertainment, Suicide, Movies
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'The Green Butchers'
Times Staff WriterIn Anders Thomas Jensen's pitch-dark Danish comedy "The Green Butchers," Svend (Mads Mikkelsen) and Bjarne (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) work in a butcher shop whose burly proprietor, Holger (Ole Thestrup), is a smug, petty tyrant and full-time put-down artist....Tags: Death, Transportation Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents, Sausages, Disasters and Accidents
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Movie review: 'The Green Butchers'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC3 stars (out of 4) Anders Thomas Jensen's "The Green Butchers" is a macabre, oddly gripping Danish dark comedy that introduces us to two small town butchers who unintentionally become murderers and then convert their unknowing customers to cannibalism....Tags: Billy Wilder, Foods and Beverages, Crime, Law and Justice, Lars von Trier, Sausages
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Movie review: 'Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself'
Chicago Tribune Staff Writer3 stars (out of 4) "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself" is a very good, offbeat movie with a very bad, offbeat title. In some U.S. cities, Lone Scherfig's exceptional black dramatic comedy has simply been released as "Wilbur," but labels are difficult to affix...Tags: Shirley Henderson, Family, Health, BBC, Entertainment
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