What is fair manner to explore, on screen, the life of Hans Christian Andersen ?
The often way was to adaptate his fairy tales. But, always, in final, excepting, maybe, the very early audience, it is not just enough.
This film represents only a meritous try to offer , in embroidery of fictional details and real facts , a cruel pedagogic metod and a special form of friendship, memories of a venerable man , confessed to a young servant, the essence of a lonely life , near to schyzoid reactions, in which cruelty, friendship, profound innocence, assumation of a way, self discover, grief, intolerance and dreams are honest used .
But the virtue is represented by performances. And by beautiful work of Simon Dahl Thaulow, especially.
I admitt, I appreciate very much Hans Christian Andersen from early age . So, this film, for me, it is easy defined not exactly as portrait but interesting drawing of the roots of a man who, entire life, worked to be accepted by others but, especialy, remaining himself.
The often way was to adaptate his fairy tales. But, always, in final, excepting, maybe, the very early audience, it is not just enough.
This film represents only a meritous try to offer , in embroidery of fictional details and real facts , a cruel pedagogic metod and a special form of friendship, memories of a venerable man , confessed to a young servant, the essence of a lonely life , near to schyzoid reactions, in which cruelty, friendship, profound innocence, assumation of a way, self discover, grief, intolerance and dreams are honest used .
But the virtue is represented by performances. And by beautiful work of Simon Dahl Thaulow, especially.
I admitt, I appreciate very much Hans Christian Andersen from early age . So, this film, for me, it is easy defined not exactly as portrait but interesting drawing of the roots of a man who, entire life, worked to be accepted by others but, especialy, remaining himself.