Competition Documentaries, Denmark 2007, 43 Min., English subtitles
Kaleidoscopic impressions from Denmark: a freshly cut garden hedge, the most frequently sold car of the year, a teenager in love, a blended family. Such is the beginning of this multi-voice inventory by the young director Max Kestner. The Danish broadcasting company DR TV commissioned him last year to make a documentary about the current state of affairs in Denmark. Kestner decided to piece together uncommented fragments of film, fascinating and highly expressive in their openness. Thus “The World in Denmark” takes us into supermarket where complaints by clients are being answered, into the editorial conference of a newspaper, into a primary school where a class is writing a dictation, to an average family planning their holiday and into a meeting with the much disputed politician Pia Kjærsgaard and her speech writer. The result is a documentary mosaic that succeeds in capturing the many facets of Danish everyday culture.
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