Terribly Happy (2008)

Recommended

Denmark

Feature Film

Original Title: Frygtelig lykkelig

Director: Henrik Ruben Genz

Writers: Henrik Ruben Genz, Dunja Gry Jensen, Erling Jepsen

Cinematographer: Jørgen Johansson

Composer: Kåre Bjerkø

Cast: Jakob Cedergren, Lene Maria Christensen, Kim Bodnia, Lars Brygmann, Anders Hove

A Copenhagen policeman is given a compulsory transfer to a one street town in South Jutland, for reasons unknown, where he discovers that his role is merely ceremonial, as the locals administer justice in their own special way; so when he becomes involved with the perma-beaten wife of the town bully, things begin to go horribly wrong, in Henrik Ruben Genz’s beautifully photographed, blackly comic, and strangely entertaining curio, a modern (sort of) western. Iain.Stott