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The Pact

100 Movies of 2021

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2021

Bille August

Birthe Neumann, Simon Bennebjerg, Asta Kamma August, Nanna Skaarup Voss ...

5.7

327

Drama Set in the late 40s and the 50s. the story chronicles the intense friendship between famous Karen Blixen, the Danish author best known for her autobiographical novel "Out of Africa," and Thorkild Bjørnvig, a young and promising poet.

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Handsomely mounted but narratively inert (...) August's film treats its subject altogether too gingerly, like a literature student afraid to make notes in the margins"	NEU
United States	Peter Sobczynski rogerebert.com	"Theoretically filled with dark psychological underpinnings, [but] oddly reticent to deal with them in any significant way. [It] never manages to muster up the emotional devastation it's aiming for (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Lisa Kennedy The New York Times	"[A] well-acted drama about the price of literary ambition"	NEU

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