Danish film critics: They just cannot get enough
- A Nymphomaniac-like poster promotes Denmark’s 2014 Bodil awards on February 1 at Copenhagen’s Bremen Theatre, where Danish actor Jesper Langberg will receive an honorary trophy
Organising the Danish Bodil Awards – Denmark’s oldest and one of the oldest film prizes in Europe, instigated in 1948 - the Danish Film Critics Association have re-created the sexy poster for Danish director Lars von Trier’s upcoming Nymphomaniac [+see also:
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The original tagline - Forget about Love – has been replaced by This Is What Danish Film Critics Look Like When They Enjoy Good Films, and instead of French actress Charlotte Gainsbourgh and Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård, the associations’ chairman Jacob Wendt Jensen and 11 of his fellow critics are posing in what would otherwise be called a very private and intimate situation. “They just cannot get enough,” explained the press release. “Film critics may reputedly sit in an ivory tower, watching the film landscape with critical and humourless eyes. But, like everyone else, they are thrilled, even happily, by big movie experience.”
At the 2014 awards ceremony hosted by Danish actor Troels Lyby, his 73-year-old, now retired colleague Jesper Langberg will receive an Honorary Bodil for his career in Danish cinema. Educated – and for more than 20 years a member of the ensemble - at Copenhagen’s Royal Theatre, Langberg performed in more than 40 features, and received two Bodil statuettes, one for Knud Leif Thomsen’s They Are All Like That (1968), the other for Peter Schrøder’s Stolen Spring (1992). His most popular role was as Kresten Skjern in Erik Balling’s television series, Matador (1978).
“Langberg is an exceptional character in Danish theatre, television and especially movies. His lines are clear and cultured, and there are always several interesting layers in his parts. He may not be the first you notice in his films, but he is often the one you forget the last. He slowly sneaks up on you, because the way he plays his roles is thoroughly thought out, and because he gives them all a special sensitivity,” explained Wendt Jensen.
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