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That Time of Year

5.5

108

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Original title

Den tid på året

Year

2018

Running time

101 min.

Country

Denmark

Director

Paprika Steen

Screenwriter

Jakob Weis

Cast

Music

Jeppe Kaas

Producer

Nordisk Film Production, Det Danske Filminstitut, Filminstitut FilmFyn, TV2

Genre

Comedy. Drama

Synopsis

As the holiday looms, educator Katrine (Steen) is inundated with requests — or threatening demands disguised as requests. She and her husband Mads (Jacob Lohmann) will be hosting his parents; her divorced parents, including her eccentric and pretentious mother, Gunna (Karen-Lise Mynster); her pompous sister, Barbara (Sofie Gråbøl), a wannabe priest; Barbara’s even more pompous husband, Torben (Lars Brygmann), a writer specializing in biographies about obscure figures; and their uncontrollable hellion of a son. Katrine’s plans are upended when she gets a call from her estranged sister, Patricia (Patricia Schumann). The once-troubled daughter everyone but Katrine has written off, Patricia unexpectedly invites herself over. Her presence unleashes the high-strung Katrine’s inner martyr and prompts everyone else to abandon what little decorum they have left.

Critics' reviews

"This mix of sour comedy and default sentimentality should have some appeal in Scandinavia (...) Farther afield, it may stir lesser interest as a foreign-language piece too mainstream, and not original or subtle enough"

Dennis Harvey: Variety

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That Time of Year

2018

Paprika Steen

5.5

(108)