Undescribable Perfection

Redundant and unnecessary.

A Masterpiece!

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

I watched this film some time ago, and the reviews are largely very positive, but I wanted to add my rating and comments in the hope that more will watch this film. We have Effie from Copenhagen, fourteen going on twenty, who helps a rude, immature Will from the USA on a visit to find his Danish roots and have 'fun' in the process. What makes this film special is the superlative acting, the pace and the juxtaposition of an immature adult man bonding with a wise and well balanced Danish girl of just fourteen years of age. Many of the reviews regarding this film state that it left a lasting impression on them, and I can see why. Treat yourself and watch this film.

not surprising. but beautiful in a special manner. a simple story about search of origins and a meeting. and the admirable performance of Frederikke Dahl Hansen, the interesting portrait of foreign lost in different space by Gethin Anthony. romance. and delicate build of questions. because it is a film, like many others from same genre, about the small details. about need of other, about past, about clash between two different ways to discover the truth. and the great thing, maybe the challenge, is the option to present, with different nuances, the same story, exploring roots, imposing solutions and crisis and confuse feelings from contemporary every day situations. that film who discover shadows. with grace. and high precision. romance. but only as skin. the heart is more interesting.

First of all, big ups to Mark Raso, a recent film-school grad, for not making his first feature about a quirky couple on a roadtrip or a guy getting over a breakup somewhere in the bowels of Brooklyn… In fact, he's taking a bit of a risk by making his protagonist a douchy American tourist, William, whose slightly grating accent goes well with his annoying snarkiness and abysmal outlook in general. Raso's on much solider ground with his female lead, Frederikke Dahl Hansen, who plays Effy, the gorgeous, precocious teenager who—after a meet-cute scene that really is pretty cute—joins William in his search for his Danish grandfather. This may sound implausible at first, since William seems like too basic a guy to have much interest in his family background—and the idea of a haunting family secret that dates back to WWII is indeed a movie cliché— but Raso makes it right by filling in a few details of the couple's personal history. William's American wingman and Effy's mother's sketchy boyfriend (plus a couple of drunken woo- woo girls from Jersey) turn up at intervals to keep things moving, but the developing relationship between the two leads gives the film some real momentum. This edgy romance between a messed-up boy-man and a precocious girl is very deftly handled, IMHO; I didn't find it the least bit cringey, as some reviewers have done. Something like "Before Sunrise," it's the story of a love affair that takes place a little outside of time, and it ends on a suitably wistful note. Dahl Hansen's expressive, unselfconscious performance—according to a disclaimer at the end of the credits she was "at least 18" when the film was made —is just about perfect. I wouldn't have spotted Gethin Anthony as a Brit (an Oxonian no less and an unsuccessful claimant to the throne of Westeros, Renly Baratheon, on "Game of Thrones"), and he does a fine job of sustaining our interest in this unlovable character. You may start to feel that there's some hope for him after all.

(Spoiler alert) When he stood at the cross of 2 currents implying words from Effy mother: You love someone is when you're truly yourself when you're with them The ending showed that they're in different places and he probably would go back to America but I do believe they somehow will find each other again My most favourite sense is when Will ignored every words his best friend said (who used to be utmost important to him before) and just glanced without blinking at a singing Jeffy. It proved that he had grown up a lot to be able the handle harsh situations, became someone others can rely on not the one always relied on others