Ingen Tid til Kærtegn (1957) or, Children of the Working Families

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Several snapshots from the film are pasted together on a drawn and painted landscape on this poster for Annelise Hovmand's Ingen Tid til Kærtegn

Lene is the sweet little daughter of two successful, working parents, and her family do not encounter any material hardships, but they simply don't see enough of each other, and when her busy mother has to skip a planned trip to the country, Lene ventures out on her own.

 

Ingen Tid til Kærtegn is written by Finn Methling (Ung Vrede (1967, TV movie)) and debuting co-writer/director Annelise Hovmand (Hvorfor Stjæler Barnet? (1955, short)). The original Danish title translates to 'no time for caresses'.

It is a modern, moralistic and considerate film, which delves into the negative consequences of the increased gender equality with insight, as well as the increasing wealth, which were prevalent societal developments in Denmark and many other countries in the 1950s and onward. Eva Cohn (Krudt og Klunker (1958)) as Lene is very pretty, although her performance is not one for the history books. Implicitly and with skill the film also shows how such a privileged girl may fall into the wrong hands; but the film's finest part is a surrealist nightmare sequence on a beach.

Ingen Tid til Kærtegn is modern for its period and impressionistic, told mainly from Lene's point of view, but is also very obvious in its message and a bit dated.

 

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[Ingen Tid til Kærtegn was released 1 March (Denmark) and runs 101 minutes. Shooting took place in Denmark. The film was also released in one other market, Finland. Regrettably the budget and box office details are not available online. Hovmand returned with Krudt og Klunker (1958). Lily Weiding (The Green Butchers/De Grønne Slagtere (2003)), who plays Lene's mother, returned in De Røde Tjørne (1957, TV movie) and theatrically in Tre Må Man Være (1959). 78 IMDb users have given Ingen Tid til Kærtegn a 6.5/10 average rating.]

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Høfeber (1991) - Some rough spots in Hovmand's amusing relationship comedy adaptation

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Two famous Danish actors caught in an unusual situation in the home, along with a long list of the popular ensemble, make up this poster for Annelise Hovmand's Høfeber

An aging judge is completely aware that his wife is screwing his good old doctor friend. But his surroundings are far from as cool about this as he is...

 

Høfeber is written by Arne Forchhammer (Klikk (1986-87)) and co-writer/director Annelise Hovmand (Hvorfor Stjæler Barnet (1955)), adapting the same-titled 1975 novel by Leif Panduro (Øgledage (1961)). The title translates to 'hay fever'.

It is an ingenious web of relationships that run more or less amuck in this pretty amusing film with good performances from especially Frits Helmuth (En Kærlig Omstigning (1994, TV movie)) and Peter Schrøder (Aching Hearts/Kærestesorger (2009)) as the sex-crazed man of wealth who winds up in trouble. SPOILER The plot line about Helmuth's adult son (Thomas Mørk (Prop and Berta/Prop og Berta (2000))), who naively loses his father's funds again and again, - and with whom the troubled judge finally decides to elope South with, claiming to have passed away, is regrettably insipid and a bit too thick. The female characters are the least faceted, and especially Lisbeth Dahl's (Men & Chicken/Mænd og Høns (2015)) character is overly mannered and hysterically overwrought.

 

 

A short video that puts spotlight on the films of Hovmand

 

Cost: Unknown

Box office: Around 530k $

[Høfeber was released 20 December (Denmark) and runs 84 minutes. It sold 62,686 tickets in Denmark, coming to around 3.65 mil. DKK (average 1991 ticket prize 58 DKK), around 530k $. Hovmand retired after the film's release. Helmuth returned in Det Forsømte Forår (1993). 118 IMDb users have given Høfeber a 4.7/10 average rating.]

 

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