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Who’s your favorite Danish film director? Favorite Danish film? No? Nothing? Don’t feel bad, I’ve never seen a movie from Denmark either. (And no, Lars Von Trier’s home video art projects don’t count as movies.) I’ve finally seen my first one though, and if it’s any indication of the country’s typical output I’ll be looking for more in the very near future. It mixes mystery, black comedy, and some eerie small town shenanigans into a delicious, crazy-filled danish of Coen-esque proportions. In fact, if one half of the Coen Brothers (doesn’t really matter which) took a flight from LA to Denmark and watched nothing but ‘Twin Peaks’ from takeoff to landing Terribly Happy is quite possibly the movie he’d go direct upon exiting the plane. Robert Hansen (Jakob Cedergren) is a big-city cop with emotional issues. He’s been reassigned to a sleepy little town in rural Denmark to work through his problems, but as we all know small towns come with their own special brand of troubles. His new neighbors include the town bully, an abused wife, a young girl who wanders the streets at night pushing an empty baby carriage, and an odd trio of card players eternally in search of a fourth. And then there’s the town’s singular geographical attraction… a bog sits on the outskirts of town and like any bog worth it’s weight in muck this one is home to more than a few secrets. Ingerlise (Lene Maria Christensen), the battered wife, comes to Hansen for help with her domestic problems, but can she be trusted? Unbruised, American women can get pretty wonky at times, so just imagine how mixed up this beaten broad for Bumfudge, Denmark is feeling. Hansen tries to help but is quickly reminded why the saying “no good deed goes unpunished” is a saying in the first place. You see, Ingerlise’s husband is the feared and violent town bully… Terribly Happy fits right in with the grand tradition of small town paranoia films. There’s a newcomer from the big city, the locals are suspicious, untrusting, and secretive, and there’s a general sense everything is just a bit… off. The preferred method of dealing with teen shoplifters is a solid swing to the face, and when Hansen refuses to comply one of the town’s residents does it for him. The bog seems to be a final resting place for most of the town’s troubles, and that means both exactly what you think and what you’re not thinking. Everybody knows everyone’s business and they have definite plans for Hansen. As an anti-spoiler I’ll say this is pretty far removed from the likes of Dead & Buried and The Wicker Man, both of which also saw an outside member of law enforcement come to town with unfortunate results. Does that tell you what does or doesn’t happen in Terribly Happy? Not in the slightest. But maybe the cat that tells Hansen ‘aloha’ in Danish might clear things up a bit…

The official Danish selection for this year’s Academy Awards and winner of 7 Robert Awards (Danish Oscars) including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay, TERRIBLY HAPPY spins a riveting yarn about Robert Hanson (Jakob Cedergren), a Copenhagen police officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated marshal position and subsequently gets mixed up with a married femme fatale. Robert’s big city temperament makes it impossible for him to fit in, or understand the uncivilized, bizarre behavior displayed by the townspeople.

Quickly spiraling into an intense fable, director Henrik Ruben Genz displays a unique and sometimes macabre vision of the darkest depths to which people will go to achieve a sense of security and belonging.

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