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Flame and Citron
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July 31, 2009 – Sep 9, 2009
Daily
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- Price
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$12.50
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After the last fretted and beautifully stylized episode in Flame and Citron, Ole Christian Madsen's name appears beside the Danish word for director: Instruktor. Even untranslated, it makes an apt descriptor for Madsen, who turns the true-life story of Danish resistance fighters during WWII into a compelling, noirish lesson on survival, heroism, and the heart-and-soul toll on the two heroes (superbly played by Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen). Once an advocate of Dogme's au naturel manifesto, Madsen sumptuously recaptures 1944 Copenhagen as a gloomy, pastel-tinted capital that's rife with Nazis, collaborators, purgatorial carnage, misinformation, and curlicues of smoke that sit idly, if not seductively, in a tense atmosphere.
