Soap, En (2006)

Regisseur:

Pernille Fischer Christensen

Drehbuchautoren:

Kim Fupz Aakeson (writer)
Pernille Fischer Christensen (writer)

Premierendatum:

7. April 2006 (Denmark)

Genre:

Komödie | Drama

Plot:

A tragicomedy focused on the relationship between the owner of a beauty clinic and a transsexual. |

Plot Keywords:

Gay Interest | Transexual

Filmpreise:

11 wins & 13 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

convincing towards the end

Besetzung

Trine Dyrholm	...	Charlotte
David Dencik	...	Veronica
Frank Thiel	...	Kristian
Elsebeth Steentoft	...	Veronica's Mother
Christian Tafdrup	...	Costumer
Pauli Ryberg	...	Costumer
Jakob Ulrik Lohmann	...	One-Night Stand
Claes Bang	...	One-Night Stand
Christian Mosbæk	...	Narrator (voice)
übrige Besetzung in alphabetischer Reihenfolge:
Joan Bentsen	...	Soap actress one (voice)
Tom Hale	...	Soap actor (voice)
Camilla Søeberg	...	Soap Actress three (voice)
Laura Kamis Wrang	...	Soap actress two (voice)

Alternativ:

A Soap (USA) (festival title)
Såpa, En (Sweden)

Länge:

USA:104 Min

Produktionsland:

Sweden | Denmark

Sprache:

Englisch | Dänisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Tonverfahren:

Dolby

Altersfreigabe:

Sweden:7 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:R21 | Brazil:16 | Netherlands:6

Firma:

Garage Film AB

convincing towards the end

The film starts with Carolina, hectic owner of a beauty parlor having just moved out from boyfriend Kristian, into the apartment over Veronika. Veronika drags along watching soaps, occasionally fulfilling wishes of sex clients, and desperately awaiting her operation transforming her into the woman she wants to be. After yet another confrontation with her well meaning mother Veronika attempts suicide. Carolina above wakes up, finds her, gets her to hospital and takes Veronika's dog, miss Daisy into her care. After Veronika returns, the neighbours find an interest for each other, in the turmoil of their search for affection with others. During a wild party à deux they even come to feel more, for which however there seems to be no room.

At the beginning the film made me fear I'd come to watch a trendy and fatiguing freak show frenzy, but hanging on it got me more and more interested in the slowly developing strand of tenderness in the middle of these rather chaotic scenes.

With the pink borders of kitsch the film owns to its title (the cliffhanger like voice-over asking the viewer what may come next, the zooming in on the blossoms outside the apartment block where it all takes place) the film convinced me eventually with its moving depiction of the ensuing blossoming of feelings between the main characters. All of this filmed with Dogma-inspired directness, closeness en nervousness, which I don't mind at all.