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Inheritance (2003)

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(63%)

Starring:	Ulrich Thomsen \| Lisa Werlinder \| Ghita Norby \| Karina Skands \| Lars Brygmann
Director:	Per Fly
Studio:	DRAKES AVENUE PICTURES
Run time:	110 mins
Genres:	Drama \| World Cinema
Languages:	Danish
Subtitles:	English
Released:	June 06, 2005

Despite being the heir to an industrial fortune, Christoffer chooses an idyllic life with his wife, Maria. When news of his father's suicide reaches him, Christoffer returns home to find the family business in ruins. He must now make a choice between his two lives...

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5

The second film in director Per Fly's Danish trilogy that opened with 2000's The Bench, this is a grittily engrossing mix of the plot machinations of a glitzy soap like Dallas and the grainy shooting style of Dogme95. Ulrich Thomsen excels as the prodigal son who passes from reluctant duty to ruthless obsession as he returns from exile in Sweden to run the family firm. However, he so dominates proceedings that both Ghita Norby and Lisa Werlinder are reduced to caricatures as his scheming mother and despairing wife. The corporate shenanigans are also a touch formulaic, but the film is still scripted and played with admirable spirit.

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17 out of 17 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 4.0 stars
Excellent and not self-indulgent

Rehan from , 18th November, 2005

Compared with a lot of Scandinavian gloom and particularly with the tedious Dogme affectations, this is an excellent and not self-indulgent (though ultimately a LITTLE gloomy) story. The ubiquitous but always watchable Ulrich Thomsen is the focus, and the general gist of the narrative is his shift from a relatively Bohemian life in Sweden to the conventional competitive materialism of his bourgeouis Danish family once he's required to take over the family business. It's all conveyed with subtlety, and if it's not the most cheerful of stories it certainly is elegantly-done.

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6 out of 7 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 3.0 stars
Scandinavian Angst

FrankIV from , 24th June, 2005

There are some parallels with 'Festen' in that in both a middle class Scandinavian family is shattered by the actions of its head. This concentrates upon the fate of the son who had broken away from his industrial heritage and led a completely different life in the city. It is not as complex nor as rich as 'Festen', but the depiction of the way in which the son is drawn back into the life he thought he had left behind is absorbing, and there are one or two quite powerful moments in which the strain shows through the polished exteriors. Interesting.

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