UKReb
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A pal of mine based in Brussels gave me the heads up on this Danish war movie some months ago and continued to pester me to view it. Knowing he is something of a cinematic buff and akin to my taste in movies I eventually bought it off Amazon and watched it last week-end.
Verdict-Don't miss it
FLAME & CITRON 2008 A Danish war drama based on a true story of two Danish assassins working for the Holger Danske Resistance who calmly execute up close and personal Nazi collaborators. They receive orders from higher up the chain of command with a photograph, name and address of their next victim. But one particular assassination which does not go to plan makes them begin to doubt those orders. Are their targets really all guilty of being collaborators and why are they not allowed to kill their most obvious target the Gestapo commander Hoffman who is ruthlessly hunting them?
The two assassins are superbly played by Thure Lindhardt (unknown to me but very good in the part of Flame) and the brilliant Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) as Citron with the Gestapo Hoffman played by the ever reliable Christian Berkel (Valkyrie & Inglourious Basterds). I bought the Blu-ray version as it was as cheap as the DVD and the visual & audio quality are way up there with the best of the US/British releases.
I had one problem with the movie- which definitely didn't spoil it for me- but I was left with a view that it attempted to be all things to all cinema-goers from political-historical-spy story-conspiracy-war drama with even gangster scenes all thrown into the mixing pot but on reflection as the two main characters were real resistance fighters and living in a Nazi occupied country no doubt all the above would be equally applicable.
I would thoroughly recommend you renting this however, a fair number of my Yankee pals have often stated that American cinema-goers have no time for films where they have to read sub-titles. If that is the case my apologies but it's still very much a worthwhile watch and read
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Reb
Verdict-Don't miss it
FLAME & CITRON 2008 A Danish war drama based on a true story of two Danish assassins working for the Holger Danske Resistance who calmly execute up close and personal Nazi collaborators. They receive orders from higher up the chain of command with a photograph, name and address of their next victim. But one particular assassination which does not go to plan makes them begin to doubt those orders. Are their targets really all guilty of being collaborators and why are they not allowed to kill their most obvious target the Gestapo commander Hoffman who is ruthlessly hunting them?
The two assassins are superbly played by Thure Lindhardt (unknown to me but very good in the part of Flame) and the brilliant Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) as Citron with the Gestapo Hoffman played by the ever reliable Christian Berkel (Valkyrie & Inglourious Basterds). I bought the Blu-ray version as it was as cheap as the DVD and the visual & audio quality are way up there with the best of the US/British releases.
I had one problem with the movie- which definitely didn't spoil it for me- but I was left with a view that it attempted to be all things to all cinema-goers from political-historical-spy story-conspiracy-war drama with even gangster scenes all thrown into the mixing pot but on reflection as the two main characters were real resistance fighters and living in a Nazi occupied country no doubt all the above would be equally applicable.
I would thoroughly recommend you renting this however, a fair number of my Yankee pals have often stated that American cinema-goers have no time for films where they have to read sub-titles. If that is the case my apologies but it's still very much a worthwhile watch and read
.Reb
