Truly Human (2001)

A despicable teacher uses his prestigious reputation to verbally and sexually abuse his students.

The entire extended family is happily on its way to a nostalgic Christmas at a rented cabin in the mountains. The cabin becomes cramped, however, when mom and dad and four grown-up children with their respective families, a dog and in-laws from Poland squeeze inside the frozen cabin walls in 30-below-zero weather.

The well-ordered life of Dylan Thomas, a high-priced male escort, goes into moral free-fall beginning with the night he impulsively takes home a young woman he finds passed out drunk on a sidewalk. A sad little stray cat in a Lycra dress and Prada shoes, Allison Campbell is looking for security or love, and she may not know the difference. While Dylan plies his trade in swank hotels, a tentative domestic relationship with seemingly homeless Allison evolves, based on the illusion that neither of them has a past. Voyeurism is the dramatic strategy and the lure for this story.

덴마크의 어느 여름날, 한 고풍스런 호텔에서 생일 잔치가 시작되려 한다. 헬게 클링겐펠트, 한 가족의 가장인 그는 이제 60세를 맞게 된다. 연회가 준비되고, 초대된 손님들의 차가 줄지어 몰려들고 있다. 친구둘, 친척들, 그리고 헬게의 가족들. 헬게는 멋진 아내 엘자와 함께 세 명의 장성한 자녀들 크리스찬, 미켈 그리고 헬렌을 맞는다. 장남 크리스찬은 파티를 위해 고향집에 왔다. 헬게는 그를 서재로 불러 한가지 부탁을 한다. 저녁 만찬 때 죽은 딸 린다에 대한 추모사를 해달라고. 울게 될까봐 차마 직접하진 못하겠다고. 둘째 딸 헬렌은 죽은 언니 린다가 사용하던 방에서 묵게 되었다. 린다가 죽은 이후로 아무도 사용하지 않아 예전과 전혀 달라진 게 없는 방. 둘째 아들이자 막내인 미켈은 린다의 장례식에 불참했고, 그 때문에 아버지의 60세 생일 파티에 초대받지 못한 불청객이다. 그러나 아내와 아이들을 이끌고 누구보다도 소란스럽게 도착한다.

쓸쓸한 코펜하겐의 겨울을 배경으로 펼쳐지는 서로의 삶이 얽혀 있는 6명의 위태로운 사람들에 대한 영화. 칙칙한 한 작은 변두리 마을에 도착한 예민한 성격의 젊은 목사 안드레아스는 권유에 의해 이태리어 강습에 참여하게 된다. 그의 출현은 각자 외로움을 겪고 있는 사람들에게 삶을 영원히 변화시킬 중요한 결정들을 내리게 한다. 그들은 사랑을 얻고 불행한 상황을 행복하게 해 줄 해결책을 찾는다. 덴마크 도그마 95의 5번째 영화인 은 핸드 헬드 카메라와 자연채광의 사용, 세트가 아닌 로케이션 촬영, 배우의 자연스러운 즉흥연기를 위한 시나리오 등 도그마의 규칙들을 잘 적용시킨 작품이다. 즉흥연기로 순간의 자연스러움이 잘 포착된 완전히 독창적이고, 감동적이며 재미까지 더해진 작품이다. (2001년 제6회 부산국제영화제)

스토퍼(젠스 알비누스)와 그의 친구들은 삼촌의 저택에 모여 백치 행위에 몰두하며 살게 된다. 아들을 잃어 마음 속에 상처를 입은 카렌(보딜 조르겐센)은 아이의 장례식 전날 우연히 한 레스토랑에서 이들을 만나게 된다. 처음에 백치들의 행동에 불쌍함을 느끼고 합류한 카렌은 이들의 백치 행동이 약속된 게임임을 알고 흥분한다. 멤버들은 분열되기 시작하고 스토퍼는 마지막으로 한 가지 제안을 하게 된다. 자신들의 백치 행위가 진실한 것임을 증명하기 위해 이들을 가장 아끼고 사랑하는 가족들 앞에서 백치 행위를 하는 것이다. 모두의 동의하에 시도하지만 멤버들의 대부분이 실패하고 그룹은 와해된다. 이를 안타깝게 지켜보던 카렌은 멤버 중 한 명을 데리고 자신의 집으로 간다. 굳은 결심을 하고 집으로 돌아온 카렌에게 가족들은 냉담하게 대하지만 결국 카렌은 자신의 진실을 표현한다.

Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.

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First-ever Spanish Dogma Film. An acid psychosocial-sexual comedy tells the story of a group of friends from university who, ten years after finishing their journalism studies, decide to meet up again in one of their friends' homes to revisit past times. Up until now, they have all done well in life and should be happy, but they aren't. A weekend will be more than enough to bring out the best and the worst in each of them and to create conflict.

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