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6.6/10
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An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.
- Awards
- 1 win & 7 nominations
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
- Finnur
- (as Fridrik Thor Fridriksson)
Lars von Trier
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThis movie is shot with camera technique called Automavision, an innovation in which the camera angles and movements are selected by a computer. The media notes explain technique, "a principle for shooting film developed with the intention of limiting human influence by inviting chance in from the cold". There are odd framings and jump cuts within scenes making everything seem a bit unsettled.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Smagsdommerne: Episode #4.16 (2006)
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the subtle pleasure of bad filming technique
If we consider this film only for the script, it is just (that's a lot) a brilliant comedy often trespassing into farce. What makes it different is the Von Trier branding, made of evident cuts (one every 3 or 4 seconds), bad framing, continuity mistakes too evident to be real mistakes. Lars underlines in a voice-off this camera mismanagement, but to me it was quite annoying after a while. The second thing that makes the otherwise mainstream comedy based on a clever and very funny idea is the fact that it is oh so Danish. These northerners are very strange and funny to me: I mean, we are used of the American, British or (for me) Italian or French and now also Spanish ways of making us laugh, but those sad and pale faces dimly lit by the Nordic sun are so funny and different and crazy. Also the jokes between the Danish people and a raging Icelander citing sagas and verbally abusing the Danish who "kept Iceland under their heel for 4 centuries" are very exotic but perfectly enjoyable. The impression is sometimes to be watching a madhouse, but it's a different experience I would recommend.
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Box office
- Budget
- €3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $51,548
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,855
- May 27, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $3,111,395
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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