Soap
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 6, 2007
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Strand Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Trine Dryholm & David Dencik | |
Performer: | Christen Tafdrup, Trine Dyrholm, Frank Theil & Elisabeth Steentoft | |
Directed by | Pernille Fischer Christensen | |
Screenplay by | Perneille Fischer Christensen & Kim Fupz Aakeson | |
Composition by | Magnus Jarlbo & Sebastian Oberg | |
Produced by | Lars Bredo Rahbek | |
Director of Photography: | Erik Molberg Hansen |
Entertainment Reviews:
Director Pernille Fischer Christensen is striving, I suspect, for a quiet seriousness and a respectful approach to transsexualism, but there's a point beyond which quiet seriousness becomes too-staid solemnity.
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Flick Filosopher
Rating: 3/5 --
... the film is an anti-soap opera in the trappings of an old- fashioned sudsfest.
New York Times
En soap never becomes too soapy, though the film does remain a bit mechanical and predictable at times, despite its rare insight in its subject matter.
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european-films.net
Rating: 3/4 --
Fear of Flying never got made into a movie. But imagine a 21st century version transported to Denmark with a transsexual thrown in for added titillation, and you've got the gist of the amusing melodrama Soap.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 1/4 --
Another week, another movie about a depressed transsexual hooker.
New York Post
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A smart and assured spin on traditional soap-opera tropes.
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TV Guide
Rating: C --
While I might want to applaud Fischer Christensen for attempting to say something pertinent about gender roles and stereotypes, there is something curiously lacking in the characters.
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Murphy's Movie Reviews
Product Description:
This Danish film is not a soap opera as its title might suggest, though it comes close in its way. Instead, this is the story of a sad transvestite prostitute named Veronica (David Dencik) who becomes the neighbor of a surly beauty-shop owner named Charlotte (Tryne Dyrholm) who has left her successful physician boyfriend. At first, sensitive, soap-opera-addicted Veronica and abrasive, opinionated Charlotte can't stand each other, but a suicide attempt brings them closer and soon they're drinking, fighting, and bonding, and the question arises as to whether or not they will fall in love; they are also waiting anxiously for the letter that's supposed to arrive with news about Veronica's gender-reassignment surgery.
Directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen, the drama mixes realistic dialogue and drab settings with a loose "cliffhanger" fantasy structure that helps offset the emptiness and desperation of these characters' existence. True to the Dogme 95 tenets, the film features little or no soundtrack music, a washed-out color palette, and naturalistic performances. Fans of stark Nordic character dramas and/or transgendered sex character studies like those of Pedro Almodovar will want to give this one a try. SOAP screened at the Berlin Film Festival and is presented with English subtitles.
Directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen, the drama mixes realistic dialogue and drab settings with a loose "cliffhanger" fantasy structure that helps offset the emptiness and desperation of these characters' existence. True to the Dogme 95 tenets, the film features little or no soundtrack music, a washed-out color palette, and naturalistic performances. Fans of stark Nordic character dramas and/or transgendered sex character studies like those of Pedro Almodovar will want to give this one a try. SOAP screened at the Berlin Film Festival and is presented with English subtitles.