This film is about a woman who volunteers with the local Salvation Army shelter as well as a man she meets there who is a refugee from Ghana. Although she feels sorry for the guy, she unwisely falls in love with him despite many warning signs that he is not the best boyfriend material. Little does she know that he's also already married and has three children!
This film is 'Oscar bait', as the subject is homelessness and refugees in Europe and it has a reasonable chance to win. However, I found the story and its message to be muddled. In some ways, your heart really goes out to the guy but he repeatedly also behaves terribly. And, the lady also believes quite foolishly and it makes it more difficult to care about either of them. So viewers might (like me) think that the moral of the story is confusing. Additionally, there are some adult elements that make this one you don't show your kids. I especially disliked seeing the leading lady cleaning up after her mother defecated on herself and felt this scene could have been handled a lot better and not so vividly. Call me crazy, but I don't like seeing images of old drunk ladies crapping themselves.
By the way, this film, despite being Danish, most of the dialog is in English—the only one of the five nominees in English. This is very unusual as most years several of the nominees are American short films.
This film is 'Oscar bait', as the subject is homelessness and refugees in Europe and it has a reasonable chance to win. However, I found the story and its message to be muddled. In some ways, your heart really goes out to the guy but he repeatedly also behaves terribly. And, the lady also believes quite foolishly and it makes it more difficult to care about either of them. So viewers might (like me) think that the moral of the story is confusing. Additionally, there are some adult elements that make this one you don't show your kids. I especially disliked seeing the leading lady cleaning up after her mother defecated on herself and felt this scene could have been handled a lot better and not so vividly. Call me crazy, but I don't like seeing images of old drunk ladies crapping themselves.
By the way, this film, despite being Danish, most of the dialog is in English—the only one of the five nominees in English. This is very unusual as most years several of the nominees are American short films.