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February 5, 2010

At the Movies: The moody noir of 'Terribly Happy'

By JAKE COYLE
AP Entertainment Writer

Years of moviegoing have familiarized us with tales of city folk waylaid in country towns — quirky Southern backwaters and dusty desert holes. It turns out that the convention works especially well in, of all places, rural Denmark.

TERRIBLY HAPPY

Director: Henrick Ruben Genz

Cast: Jakob Cedergren, Kim Bodnia, Lene Maria Christensen

Rating: Not rated

Running time: 100 minutes
“Terribly Happy,” the Danish foreign film submission to the Oscars, transplants a familiar genre to a small, sparsely populated village on the gray plains of southern Jutland. A police officer, Robert Hanson (Jakob Cedergren), arrives from Copenhagen, transferred for something bad enough to get him cast off to the sticks.


 
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