15/05/2005

Dark Horse [+see also:
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film profile] (Voksne Mennesker) is a contrasted, sharp and shadeless black and white world. This world, Daniel’s one is described by Dagur Kàri, a young Icelandic filmmaker (born in France), who revealed his character in 2003 with the amazing Nòi Albinòi (shot in Icelandic).

With Dark Horse, presented in Cannes in the parallel section of “Un Certain Regard”, Dagur Kàri comes back with a story of social unsuitability in a light young comedy, shot in Danish. "I can’t become a father, I never read the newspaper, I don’t even know who the Prime Minister is", complains Daniel, a penniless tagger who meets and falls in love with Franc, a young lady as eccentric as he is. The filmmaker counts on the astounded look of the young Jacob Cedergren, the Danish shooting star at the 2005 Berlinale, who interprets greatly "the transition from childhood to the adult world" of the main character.

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Divided in chapters with hilarious moments, the film is as light as a scholar essay on cinema but hides a strong stylistic structure, with the photography of the talented Manuel Albert Claro (Reconstruction) and the production of Morten Kaufmann, who worked on Dogma Mifune and who is actually taking part in the next film by Thomas Vinterberg. The film is produced by the Danish society Nimbus Film with Zentropa and is supported by Denmark and Iceland with a comprehensive budget of 1,75 million euros. "We chose to shoot in black and white - says Dagur Kàri -, with a particular attention given to graphical aspect, to frames and architecture. Square and hard atmospheres in which bodies are moving so as to adapt themselves".

(Translated from Italian)