Just Another Love Story (Kærlighed på film)
Wed 16 – Thu 17 Sept
Ole Bornedal, Denmark 2007, Danish with English subtitles. Certificate 18.

Cast: Anders W Berthelsen, Rebecka Hemse, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Charlotte Fich, Dejan Cukic Contrived excess is rarely as entertaining as it is in the ironically titled Just Another Love Story, a frenzied noirish romantic thriller from Danish writer-director Ole Bornedal. The film kicks off with three ‘love scenes’, played in rapid succession: In the first, a man lies bleeding to death on a rainy street while a woman weeps over him.

In the second, a middle-aged husband and wife enjoy some playful pillow talk, and in the third, two young lovers are involved in a tense standoff with a gun. The connection between these three snapshots – as well as the implicit connection between passionate romance and violence – will be made clear by the film’s end…

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