Mifune, Anders W. Berthelsen, ...

HOME WRECKING Berthelsen and Hjejle are budding romantics in ''Mifune''

Video Review

Mifune

Reviewed by Michael Sauter | Aug 22, 2000
EW's GRADE
B+

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

In Mifune, 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+

Originally posted Aug 22, 2000
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