The Woman Who Dreamed of a Man (2010)
"Kvinden der drømte om en mand" (original title)

Director:

Per Fly

Writers:

Per Fly (screenplay), Dorthe Warnø Høgh (screenplay)

Stars:

Sonja Richter, Marcin Dorocinski, Michael Nyqvist

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sonja Richter	...	Karen
Marcin Dorocinski	...	Maciek
Michael Nyqvist	...	Johan
Alberte Blichfeldt	...	Josefine
Tammi Øst	...	Marie
Sara Hjort Ditlevsen	...	Receptionist (as Sara Hjort)
Janusz Francisziek Komodowski	...	Doctor
Franck Monsigny	...	Hotel receptionist in Paris
Monika Krzywkowska	...	Maciek's wife
Olga Boladz	...	Olga - Female student
Rafal Fudalej	...	Tomek
Zygmunt Malanowicz	...	Receptionist on Hotel Europejski
Jakub Snochowski	...	Receptionist in Poland
Michal Chilicki	...	Old man on Hotel Europejski
Teresa Owczynnikow	...	Old woman in Poland

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

betrayal | art | male nudity | photographer | husband wife relationship | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Denmark Norway Sweden Poland France

Language:

English Danish Polish French

Release Date:

21 January 2010 (Denmark)

Also Known As:

The Woman That Dreamed About a Man

Filming Locations:

Central Station, Aleje Jerozolimskie, Sródmiescie, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Box Office

Budget:

$4,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Zentropa Entertainments, Det Danske Filminstitut, Eurimages

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in DR2 Premiere: Episode #4.1 (2010)

User Reviews

Aesthetic film experiment

Per Fly is back five years after his Denmark-trilogy with a revitalized film style and new actors.

Fashion photographer K has had dreams of a strange man. One day she sees a man who looks exactly like the man of her dreams on a restaurant and follows him. When she sees him again the next day at the same place he approaches her.

Per Fly made a clear mark within Scandinavian film in the beginning of the 21st century with the modern social realistic trilogy: "The Bench" (2000), "The Inheritance" (2003) and "Drabet" (2005), which depicts the different social classes in Denmark. Five years later the Danish film-instructor is back with a multinational film experiment where he and co-writer Dorte Høgh tells a passionate tale about a happily married woman and mother who finds herself overpowered by a recurring dream. Per Fly's fourth feature film is an ongoing journey between the surreal and the real, from Copenhagen to Warszawa to Paris, and this is strengthened by the non-linear narrative, the long takes without dialog, the atmospheric score, the versatile cinematography, the ambiguous close-up shots and Per Fly's confident filming where he visualizes nice perspectives from his own and the main characters point of view.

"The Woman That Dreamed About a Man" starts of as any kind of romance about a mutual attraction between two strangers from different cultures that has similar lifestyles, but changes rapidly by the director's narrative choices which invites the viewer's into a universe of dreams where the psychological, the erotic, the mystic and the abstract are interlaced while a study of character evolves. Sonja Richter, one of Denmark's most skilled actresses delivers an enthralling performance in a risky role where she has to express more through her eyes than with her lines and emotional repertory. The chemistry between her and Marcel Dorocinski, which does a good job in his role, is present mostly due to Sonja Richter's expressive interpretation. This is a stylish thriller and a radiant figment of imagination that's characterized by Per Fly's enhanced film style where he focuses on the aesthetic, the fictive and the narrative aspects of the film language.