Using material shot sporadically over six years, TV-experienced helmer Pernille Rose Gronkjaer builds an affectionate but admirably unsentimental portrait of her eccentric, headstrong protagonists.
NEW YORK -- This Danish film demonstrates again that reality trumps fiction. It gives an evocative portrait of the real-life interactions between two memorable characters: an elderly bachelor living ...
Living alone in the dilapidated Hesbjerg Castle he purchased more than 40 years ago, octogenarian bachelor Jørgen Lauersen Vig has convinced the Moscow Patriarchate to live out a dream, by donating ...
Elderly, lonely Danish Vig bequeaths his decaying castle to the Russian Orthodox Church, only to knock heads with the head nun who comes to oversee the transition and restoration. Director Pernille ...