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MIFUNE

Anders W. Berthelson, Iben Hjejle (2000, Columbia TriStar, 102 mins., R, subtitled, also on DVD)

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Rated: R; Genres: Foreign Language, Romance; With: Jesper Asholt, Anders W. Berthelsen and Soren Kragh-Jacobsen; Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

B+

By Michael Sauter

A just-married Copenhagen yuppie (Berthelson) returns to the family farm to care for his simpleton brother -- and falls for the call girl (High Fidelity's Hjejle) whom he has hired as housekeeper. Some Tinseltown director could make a slick romantic comedy out of all this (Rain Man meets Pretty Woman), but Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, a Dogma 95 disciple, eschews calculated gags and cheap sentiment, favoring a sprawl of messily real emotions. Quick, catch this charmer before Hollywood gets its hands on the remake rights. B+

Posted Aug 18, 2000

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