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| Conflicting signals of happy comedy and strong violence are indicated on this stylish poster for Christoffer Boe's Offscreen |
Actor Nicolas Bro's (Talenttyven (2012)) marriage falls apart, when he starts to document his life at all times on camera.
Offscreen is written by Knud Romer Jørgensen (The Idiots/Idioterne (1998, actor)) and co-writer/director Christoffer Boe (Reconstruction (2003)).
It is a daring and unusual meta/mockumentary film in which Bro plays a version of himself, who borrows the camera from Boe also playing a fictionalized version of himself, a distracted, high-minded (douchebag) young film director. Bro is authentic and frightening as a man in disintegration, SPOILER culminating with his becoming a killer of women, who rolls in their blood!
Before things get that far, however, the married couple scenes play out somewhat like theater exercises, where the conflict is meant to always escalate, which at times seems less than natural and a bit aggravating at the same time, lacking nuances. Still, Offscreen is an edgy, fairly unpleasant, modern type of film.
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Reconstruction (2003) - Luminous Bonnevie in Boe's striking Copenhagen love/mystery debut
Here is a casting tape Nicolas Bro has made available from his casting in Boe's Reconstruction (2003)
Cost: Unknown
Box office: Approximately 50k $
= Some uncertainty but likely a box office disaster (projected return of 0.05 times its cost)
[Offscreen was released 18 August (Denmark) and runs 93 minutes. Shooting took place in Denmark, including in Copenhagen. The film sold 4,783 tickets in Denmark, its only general release market, coming to approximately 50k $. If made on a realistic low budget of 1 mil. $, the film would rank as a box office disaster. It won 1/6 Robert awards (Denmark's Oscar) and was nominated for the Nordic Council's film prize, among other honors. Boe returned with Avantgardekapitalisten (2008, documentary short) and theatrically with Everything Will Be Fine/Alting Bliver Godt Igen (2010). Bro returned in Skymaster/Der Var Engang en Dreng - Som Fik en Lillesøster med Vinger (2006). 696 IMDb users have given Offscreen a 6.4/10 average rating.]
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