Monday, March 15, 2010

Screenings - Flame and Citron

Writer: Lars Andersen, Ole Christian Madsen
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Genre: Drama Thriller (2008)

The real name is Flammen & Citronen, a Danish film about resistance fighters during WWII. The critics liked it but not as much as I did. Perhaps it was too well done for the critics. It could be called the "Fog of War" if that name hadn't already been taken. It just keeps unraveling. Again, it is supposed to be based on real life, which, as I have said before, makes me cringe a bit. As Vonnegut says, "God never wrote a good play in his life." But if this happened the way it is told, then even God makes mistakes. There is everything here from non stop action to more layers than the best of Mary's date bars.

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