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Speed Walking
- Director: Niels Arden Oplev
- Writer: Bo Hr. Hansen; Morten Kirkskov
- Producer: Mette Host Hansen; Christel C.D. Karlsen
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This shamefully overlooked film deserves due praise and an audience.
Speed-walking and the loves of a teenage boy...coping with the sudden loss of his mother, a nihilistic father, a rather strange older brother, an intimate friend and his patient girlfriend.
Life couldn't be more complicated for one so young.
There is a deft wit played against the suppressed, raw emotion of a premature death...but, life goes on. We fall, we pick ourselves back up.
Love Hurts...becomes the recurrent song, theme and tone...succinctly observed, beautifully filmed and played to perfection by a gifted young actor.
Laughter, anger and tears...what more could you ask for?!?
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Martin (14) is forced to deal with confused sexuality and the loss of a mother in a provincial setting in the mid-seventies, where the famed Danish liberation of porn has had its influence on the grownups.
Cast & Characters
Pilou Asbaek as Onkel Kristian;
Lise Baastrup;
Anders W. Berthelsen as Hans;
Villads Boye as Martin;
David Dencik;
Kraka Donslund Nielsen as Kristine;
Jakob B. Engmann as Robert;
Christine Gjerulff;
Kristian Halken;
Anne Louise Hassing as Helle