Mifune (Dogma #3)

Mifunes sidste sang Danemark 1999 | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | vostEN | 101’ | 35mm | Cast : Anders W. Berthelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Iben Hjejle

► Silberner Bär, Berlinale 1999

► 3 Nominations including Best European Film, European Film Awards 1999

Kresten comes from humble country origins but now lives in the yuppie circles of Copenhagen and has the prospects of a glittering career until a telephone call on his wedding night shatters his hopes of a better life.

« If the story is immensely satisfying in a traditional way, the style has its own delights. Kragh-Jacobsen feels free to meander. Every single scene doesn’t have to pull its weight and move the plot marker to the next square. Asides and irrelevant excursions are allowed. Characters arrive at conclusions by a process we can follow on the screen, instead of signaling us that they are only following the script. And there is an earthiness to the unknown actors, especially Asholt as Rud, that grounds the story in the infinite mystery of real personalities. » (Roger Ebert)