But the strangeness and depth of Dyrholm’s and Lindh’s characters and Jasper J Spanning’s wonderfully atmospheric cinematography rescue it from cliché. He soon gets under it).Īnd dancing drunkenly to “Tainted Love” at a dinner party while her husband and friends look on indifferently is a bit on the obvious – and icky – side. This gripping erotic drama, directed by May el-Toukhy with wonderful performances from all, is sometimes in danger of slipping over into posh soap, or soft-core porn, territory: a middle-aged woman with a wardrobe of high heels and tasteful trousers wants to rekindle her self-esteem and relive her youth with some wild, risky, taboo sex (Gustav even gives her arm tattoos, telling her, “It’s just skin”. Soon after, with apparently little regard for consequences, Anne, a powerful lawyer who specialises in defending young victims of rape and abuse, embarks on a steamy – as well as predatory and abusive – affair with her stepson. They're giving him a second chance – he was kicked out of several schools and his mother in Sweden wants to send him to boarding school. Her marriage to Peter (Magnus Krepper), a hard-working, often absent doctor, appears solid enough until Gustav (Gustav Lindh), his difficult teenage son from a previous marriage, moves in with them.
The Alice-down-the-well analogy could apply to Anne herself. Opens: November 1 in theaters.Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next.” A cosy scene: Anne (the superb Trine Dyrholm: The Legacy The Commune Nico, 1988) is reading Alice in Wonderland to her twin daughters in their stylish Danish family house deep in the woods. Screenwriter: Maren Louise Kaehne, May el-ToukhyĬast: Trine Dyrholm, Gustav, Lindh, Magnus Krepper Reviewed for & linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten © 2019 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online El-Toukhy is satirizing our own president?ġ27 minutes. The film is as sophisticated as is Scandinavia, and dare one say that in fashioning the principal woman as one with the feeling that she is rich, educated, and superior and can get away with anything, that Ms. Perhaps she is a Danish Donald Trump-not that she would try getting away with shooting someone on Jægersborggade, the busiest street in Copenhagen, but that under her husband’s nose she can cuddle up with a young lad, a disturbed one at that, without harmful consequences. The only thing that concerns her is being caught. And since the shots are taken in Denmark and not Alabama or Mississippi, there is no implication that she feels sinful. “Queen of Hearts” has no problem showing some hardcore sex with the boy, doggy style, and with her husband, missionary choice, because, well, it sells, and Denmark’s being Denmark can’t hurt. You would think that a successful lawyer would be enjoined by the illegality, being instead simply fearful of discovery by someone in her family such as her grown sister. There is an implication that at her age, she realizes that the wrinkles are inevitable, the limited sex with her husband just OK, and that she wants to prove that she’s still hot and able to seduce someone one-third her age. After allowing the teen to put a symbolic tattoo on her arm, she takes a bold and misguided chance on leaving a dinner party with the boy, taking him to a bar, and kissing him on the lips. While Peter (Magnus Krepper), the guilt-ridden divorced father whose son Gustav (Gustav Lindh) is now taken back into the older man’s home, Peter’s wife Anne, who is not having enough sex with Peter, opens up to the boy while her husband is away.
Director el-Toukhy and her co-writer Maren Louise Käehne dig into the intrigues involving three people living under one roof in a lavish home with acres of grounds-a doctor, a lawyer, and a disturbed teenager whose father was “not there for him” during the kid’s early years. Most important, while nobody is having his way the wife of the murdered king as in “Hamlet,” we’re dealing with another sordid affair–between Anna (Tryne Dyrholm) a woman in her late forties, and her sixteen-year-old stepson Peter (Magnus Krepper).Ī common theme in literature, theater and film is the idea that if you peel back the outer layers of even our most civilized and financially comfortable people, you will find emotions that could well suit up a film of horror and desolation.
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May el-Toukhy, following up her “Long Story Short” about a group of Danes meeting at different parties, shows in her third feature movie that there’s no murder involved in “Queen of Hearts,” but there is certainly an element of revenge. There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark. ADULTERY, COMING-OF-AGE, PERVERSION, QUEEN OF HEARTS
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