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Nothing's All Bad/Smukke Mennesker (2010) - Fals' promising, unusual and sincere debut

♥♥♥♥

 

  + Best Debut Movie of the Year

 

This tongue-in-cheek, well-made poster for Mikkel Munch-Fals' Nothing's All Bad hints at the film's dark comedy elements

 

A family father visits a prostitute. A daughter with only one breast. A rent boy. A flasher. A lonely widow. All come together in Nothing's All Bad.


There is very little wrong with Nothing's All Bad, the debut film of great Danish writer-director Mikkel Munch-Fals (Swinger (2016)): Its chapter structure foregrounds the filmmaker's urge to over-control his film and seems unimportant. But that's about it.

The actors impress, and especially young Sebastian Jessen (Love Is All You Need/Den Skaldede Frisør (2012)) is great. Nothing's All Bad is a wonderful mix of exhibiting and ironically playing with the ailments and hypocrisies of Danish society, while simultaneously embracing its flawed characters. SPOILER Its both surprising, humoristic and light ending leaves us with a distinct feeling that joy in human relations is a possibility.

Nothing's All Bad, - the original Danish title translates to 'beautiful people', - is something new in Danish cinema, which brazes an important message: That we may be sexual freaks, freaks of nature or whatever you want to call it, but that we're also beautiful people. I heartily recommend it.

 

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Writer-director Fals directs his actors during filming of Nothing's All Bad


 

Writer-director Fals talks of the film at the Stockholm International Film Festival here

 

Cost: Unknown

Box office: Unknown

= Unknown (but most likely a mega-flop)

[Nothing's All Bad was released September 23 (Denmark) and runs 93 minutes. Its budget is unknown, but it was supported with more than 5 mil. DKK (about 0.9 mil. $) from New Danish Screen, the debuting organ within the Danish Film Institute. It sold only 6,207 tickets in Danish cinemas but was screened at 19 film festivals around the world. However, there is no doubt that Nothing's All Bad lost some money. It was nominated for 6 Roberts, winning Bodil Jørgensen the Best Supporting Actress award, and for three Bodils, winning Kurt Ravn the Best Supporting Actor award. 833 IMDb-users have given Nothing's All Bad an average rating of 7.1/10.]


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