alexander
Striker
hey @alexander - i got round to watching one of your recommendations at the weekend from a while back, Dronningen. Interesting movie and Trine Dyrholm is excellent in the lead role, although one question... in danish cinema & telly, where's the line between 'art' & 'porn'? the sex scenes were more akin to pronhub than a oscar submitted movie!? had to google it later and apparently prosthetics were used, although it all seemed real enough from where i was sat!
just acquired the movie "Margrete: Queen of the North" with Trine in the lead, and also series 2 of Forhøret that she seems to be the star of looking at imdb.
Just finished series 2 of Sygeplejeskole last night, which i'm enjoying but i have no idea why im watching it - had it been british (like call the midwife!) i wouldnt go anywhere near it. Gonna start series 4 of Badehotellet this week. Was reading something that Anne Louise Hassing had been saying, series 10 will be the final one... eight full episodes but that there's so much writing to go into it that filming won't start till next year, i guess that means it won't be till January 2024 that you get to see the outcome? Hopefully i'll have caught up by then!
i've just acquired that last week, i'll start it after badehotellet s4.
Scandinavians tend to be pretty open-minded about these things. Nudity on screen just reflects nudity in real life. This may help explain it a bit:
Nudity in Denmark: The naked truth
There's a generational divide when it comes to nudity in Denmark. Old people are much more excited about being nude than young people.
www.howtoliveindenmark.com
Or the first part of this one:
Danes and privacy: Why public nudity is OK & public ambition is not
They may appear nude on public beaches and in daily newspapers, but Danes have a passion for privacy. This may be the reason I have never met my neighbors.
www.howtoliveindenmark.com
I love how you are so into Sygeplejeskolen and Badehotellet. I still don't quite know how to describe the two series to people who haven't seen any of them. They are somewhat old-fashioned, of course with the time settings, but I wouldn't call them period dramas. Are they comedy ? Well, they both have funny moments and characters. Are they social realism ? Probably not either. Drama ? Not really. But both series just seem to tick a lot of boxes that Danes like to watch. When the tenth and final series of Badehotellet is shown in a couple of years time a lot of people will be sad to see it end. It has about 1.5m viewers for each episode and has since pretty much the first episode aired years ago. Newspaper TV critics have hated both series from day one and are still at a loss to why the series are this popular. They just are and I love that.
The main reason why they are ending Badehotellet after series ten is that series nine's timeline was just after the end of WWII and in the years that followed, especially from the 1950s and onwards fewer and fewer people went to seaside hotels the same way. People began buying Summer houses instead. The two writers behind the series have said it would be harder to write a decent script much long after where they are now. But they want to end on a good note so one final series and that will be that.
