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A man exposing himself to a gorilla is not what I would typically expect to see in the trailer for a new film by Christoffer Boe but evidently this is what happens when the director of Reconstruction, Beast, and Offscreen tackles the real life story of Mogens Glistrup and Simon Spies - a politician and travel magnate whose friendship would eventually lead to scandal.The true story about the spectacular friendship between two notorious and provocative Danes: the eccentric lawyer-turned-politician Mogens Glistrup, and the "travel king", millionaire, womanizer and public provocateur, Simon Spies. Despite their different ways of life Glistrup and Spies become best friends, and together they turn Spies Travels into one of most profitable travel agencies in Scandinavia in the 1960s and 1970s. They...

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After recently watching Christoffer Boe's latest film Beast I had the chance to ask the director a couple of questions. We talked about horror, film music and how thinking Bond is gay wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. To get all the juicy details, read on ...Twitch: I noticed that your films used to have it easier finding international distribution. Offscreen was only just released here in Belgium, where Reconstruction and Allegro had more timely releases. No word about Everything Will Be Fine so far and I'm not sure we'll ever see Spies & Glistrup in stores here. Are services like iTunes helping smaller films to reach bigger audiences once again or is it still difficult to get your films out there?Christoffer Boe: I think...

Beast - Directed by Christoffer Boe - Denmark It’s always interesting to see a director work with the same themes in a new way. In this case, Beast is another horrific, microscopic examination of obsessive love in the midst of a crumbling relationship, much like Christoffer Boe’s earlier film Offscreen. But, whereas Offscreen was unflinching and straight-forward, Beast is a much more ambiguous, abstract affair. Boe once again relies on Nicolas Bro to play the obsessive lover (Bruno), pairing him against Marijana Jankovic as his wife Maxine. We catch them at a crucial time in the dissolution of their relationship, with Maxine still allowing Bruno’s increasingly violent sexual advances despite being vocal about their being no chance of reconciliation...

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[Updated with English subtitled trailer]It was nearly a year ago that Twitch presented the first images from Beast, the latest feature from Denmark's Christoffer Boe. At the time the film had just finished shooting and audiences hoping for the same fusion of character drama and a descent into madness that drove Offscreen - the previous picture that paired Boe with star Nicolas Bro - were promised exactly that with the still of Marijana Jankovic licking blood from Bro's face shown in the gallery below.Bruno loves his wife Maxine, but his love and body are slowly undergoing a transformation.  Something is beginning to stir inside him and there is nothing he can do to stop it. Because when you first delve into the dark side of...

It seems safe to say that Nicolas Bro is director Christoffer Boe's muse. The versatile character actor has appeared in each of Boe's four existing feature films in some capacity and in 2006 took the lead in what was Boe's most punishing, shocking work.

A film arguably ahead of its time, 2006's Offscreen was a virtuoso spin on first person perspective story telling. Ostensibly shot and assembled by Bro himself the film chronicled one man's descent into obsession and madness following the collapse of his marriage, all of it spiraling down into a wildly bloody finale. Given the current first person craze I'd wager that the film would receive far more notice if released now - where it would be recognized as one of the best films of the type ever made - as opposed to being released then, when it was seen as a minor oddity.

And though the...

No, it's not a reference to the film by Christoffer Boe, though that would probably find an appreciative home here.  On now and continuing through the next couple weeks is the Offscreen Festival in Brussels and, honestly, it'd be hard to imagine a festival more tailored to Twitch's tastes.

Not a straight up genre festival, Offscreen caters to what they term 'non-conformist' films, which means next to screenings of Air Doll, White Lightnin', Amer and other recent offerings you get lengthy retrospectives dedicated to the likes of Jess Franco, the spaghetti western and Japanese pinky violence.

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Somehow when Denmark's Christoffer Boe assures me that everything will be fine I take this as an indication that the exact opposite is true.  This may have something to do with having witnessed Nicolas Bro's on screen meltdown in Boe's Offscreen or perhaps from the bizarre Kafka-esque warping of reality in both Reconstruction and Allegro.  And so, no, despite a title assuring me so, I do not believe that everything in Boe's upcoming fourth film will be fine.  I do expect it to be pretty damn brilliant, though.

A film director flees from a car accident in which he was at fault -- out of fear of the consequences for his coming film and the adoption of his future son. The day after the accident, he discovers that the man he ran over is in fact hiding a dangerous secret capable of toppling the government. He decides to risk...

Danish auteur Christoffer Boe is a great favorite in these parts, a film maker who we have been following since his debut feature Reconstruction through to his most recent effort - the first person descent into madness Offscreen - and we have been anxiously been waiting for whatever Boe may do next. And what he’s doing next is a thriller titled Everything Will Be Fine.

A film director flees from a car accident in which he was at fault — out of fear of the consequences for his coming film and the adoption of his future son. The day after the accident, he discovers that the man he ran over is in fact hiding a dangerous secret capable of toppling the government. He decides to risk everything in an attempt to expose the man’s story to the public — but as it turns out, nothing is actually what it seems.

When most folks think about Danish cinema, they think Lars Von Trier. He and his Dogma 95 cohorts dominated the scene in the 90s and into the current decade. Europa (Zentropa), Breaking The Waves and Dancer In The Dark all garnered critical acclaim and Lars Von Trier became the darlings of the international film festival circuit. Below the surface of this high-concept, somewhat cerebral identity of Danish cinema, there was also another scene developing below the radar of arthouse critics, the often overlooked world of genre film that we so wholeheartedly love here at Fantastic Fest.

Our pal Anthony Timpson from the Incredibly Strange Film Festival in New Zealand first turned us on to director Lasse Spang Olsen and screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen's 1999 brilliant dark-comedy/action film In China They Eat Dogs. Since then, we've hungrily sought out as much Danish genre film as we could devour. Fantastic Fest programmers Blake Ethridge,...

• I had a really great time at Sundance, and have to say that for the most part, every film I saw was a pretty solid effort from the filmmakers. There were a few that really impressed me, and a few that didn’t. Here’s an overview of how I spent my time in Park City:Top 5: Black Snake Moan director Craig Brewer’s follow up to his breakthrough Hustle and Flow is another tale set in the south that centers on the transformative power of music. Here we have the blues instead of rap music, and the change sought is spiritual rather than socio-economic. Christina Ricci stars as a small-town Tennessee sex addict left for dead, Samuel L. Jackson the broken down blues guitarist who saves her life, then aims to save her soul. It’s nice to hear Jackson quoting scripture again. Offscreen: From award-winning Danish filmmaker Christoffer Boe,

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• Offscreen is the third feature film from award-winning Denmark-native filmmaker Christoffer Boe (Reconstruction, Allegro) that screened as part of the New Frontier program last week at Sundance. It stars Nicholas Bro, an stage and screen actor, as himself. As his relationship with his girlfriend Lene dissolves, Bro borrows a camera from director Boe with the intention of filming a love story starring Lene and himself as their loves grows together again. What he ends up capturing on camera is his own mental and emotional breakdown as Lene flees to Berlin, and he develops a serious psychological dependency on the camera and falls into a downward spiral of obsession, alienation, and self-destruction. The audience immediately knows something bad has happened as the film opens. In a shot reminiscent of Gasper Noe’s Irreversible, Bro keeps the camera aimed at his face as he moves through a crowded bar, the patrons moving out of his way,

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• Quick Links  Complete Film Listing: Premieres Dramatic Comp:  Docu Comp: World Dramatic Comp: World Docu Comp: Spectrum: Park City at Midnight: Short Film Programs January 18 to 28, 2007 Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('January 18, 2007'); Artist Spotlight: Pierre Huyghe a collection of short films by the French multimedia artist rarely seen outside of museum or art gallery contexts.The Last Dining Table (South Korea), directed and written by Gyeong-Tae Roh, an evocation of the issues of environmental pollution and family values decay in a minimalist/surrealist style. Offscreen (Denmark), directed by Christoffer Boe and written by Boe and Knud Romer Jorgensen, about an actor making an intensely private home movie about himself. World premiere.Phantom Love (U.S.), directed by Nina Menkes, a surreal tale about the personal liberation of a woman trapped in a family. Shot in Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India. World premiere. Slipstream (U.S.), directed and written by Anthony Hopkins,

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