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Mifune

Original title: Mifunes sidste sang
  • 19991999
  • RR
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
7.8K
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Mifunes sidste sang (1999)
  • Romance
  • Comedy
  • Drama
Kresten's dad dies and he returns to the farm on Lolland to take care of things, including his developmentaly-challenged brother. He employs a hooker as maid. He loses his wife and job due t... Read allKresten's dad dies and he returns to the farm on Lolland to take care of things, including his developmentaly-challenged brother. He employs a hooker as maid. He loses his wife and job due to lies. The maid's kid brother moves in and they're a family of 4.Kresten's dad dies and he returns to the farm on Lolland to take care of things, including his developmentaly-challenged brother. He employs a hooker as maid. He loses his wife and job due to lies. The maid's kid brother moves in and they're a family of 4.
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
7.8K
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  • Director
    • Søren Kragh-Jacobsen(uncredited)
  • Writers
    • Anders Thomas Jensen
    • Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
  • Stars
    • Iben Hjejle
    • Anders W. Berthelsen
    • Jesper Asholt
Top credits
  • Director
    • Søren Kragh-Jacobsen(uncredited)
  • Writers
    • Anders Thomas Jensen
    • Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
  • Stars
    • Iben Hjejle
    • Anders W. Berthelsen
    • Jesper Asholt
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    • 60User reviews
    • 64Critic reviews
    • 57Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 10 wins & 14 nominations

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    Iben Hjejle
    Iben Hjejle
    • Liva Psilanderas Liva Psilander
    Anders W. Berthelsen
    • Krestenas Kresten
    Jesper Asholt
    Jesper Asholt
    • Rudas Rud
    Emil Tarding
    • Bjarke Psilanderas Bjarke Psilander
    Anders Hove
    Anders Hove
    • Gerneras Gerner
    Sofie Gråbøl
    Sofie Gråbøl
    • Claireas Claire
    Paprika Steen
    Paprika Steen
    • Pernilleas Pernille
    Mette Bratlann
    • Ninaas Nina
    Susanne Storm
    • Hanneas Hanne
    Ellen Hillingsø
    Ellen Hillingsø
    • Lykkeas Lykke
    Sidse Babett Knudsen
    Sidse Babett Knudsen
    • Bibbias Bibbi
    Søren Fauli
    Søren Fauli
    • Stemmenas Stemmen
    • (voice)
    Søren Malling
    Søren Malling
    • Palle Alfonsas Palle Alfons
    Kjeld Nørgaard
    • Claires faras Claires far
    • (as Keld Nørgaard)
    Kirsten Vaupel
    • Claires moras Claires mor
    Torben Jensen
    • Ældre kundeas Ældre kunde
    Klaus Bondam
    • Præstas Præst
    Lene Laub Oksen
    • Luder #1as Luder #1
    • Director
      • Søren Kragh-Jacobsen(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Anders Thomas Jensen
      • Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
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    Storyline

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    Kresten has moved from his parents' farm on a small Danish island to Copenhagen to pursue his career. When his father dies he must move back to the farm, where nothing much has happened since he left. He places an ad in the local newspaper to get help with running the farm and looking after his mentally-challenged brother. A prostitute named Liva answers the ad, keen to get away from annoying telephone calls. But running away from your past isn't easy. —Allan Simonsen
    • female urination
    • marriage
    • violence
    • bride
    • loud sex
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    • Genres
      • Romance
      • Comedy
      • Drama
    • Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
      • Rated R for strong sexuality and language, and for some violence
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    • Trivia
      After the movie's completion, director Søren Kragh-Jacobsen made the following statement: "As one of the DOGME 95 brethren and co-signatory of the Vow of Chastity, I feel moved to confess to the following transgressions of the aforesaid Vow during the production of Dogme 3 - Mifune. Please note that the film has been approved as a Dogme work, as only one genuine breach of the rules has actually taken place. The rest may be regarded as moral breaches: (1) I confess to having made one take with a black drape covering a window. This is not only the addition of a property, but must also be regarded as a kind of lighting arrangement. (2) I confess to moving furniture and fittings around the house. (3) I confess to having taken with me a number of albums of my favorite comic book series as a youth, Linda & Valentin (Valérian and Laureline). (4) I confess to helping to chase the neighbor's free-range hens across our location and including them in the film. (5) I confess that I brought a photographic image from an old lady from the area and hung it in a prominent position in one scene: not as part of the plot, but more as a selfish, spontaneous, pleasurable whim. (6) I confess to borrowing a hydraulic platform from a painter, which we used for the only two bird's-eye overview shots in the film. (7) I do solemnly declare that in my presence the remainder of Dogme 3 - Mifune was produced in accordance with the vow of chastity. (8) I also point out that the film has been approved by DOGME 95 as a Dogme film, as in real terms no more than a single breach of the rules has been committed. The rest may be regarded as moral transgressions."
    • Quotes

      Liva Psilander: Livet er en lang lort, som man skal tage en kæmpe bid af hver dag!

    • Connections
      Featured in Bag kameraet: Mifunes sidste sang (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Nocturne No 9 Opus 2
      by Frédéric Chopin

      Performed by Nulle & Verdensorkestret

    User reviews60

    Review
    Top review
    They ain't heavy, they're our brothers
    Terrific acting and mesmerising locations make this an easy movie to love. Denmark's hazy, almost dreamy summer light lends a touch of magic to this tale of a prodigal son's enforced return.

    The main characters are exquisitely drawn. Berthelsen plays newlywed Copenhagen yuppie Kresten, who has denied the very existence of his family in far-off (or so he thought) Lolland. Rud, his retarded brother, is brought to us with great sensitivity and charm in a show-stealing performance by Jesper Asholt. Iben Hjejle sparkles as Liva, a city prostitute with steadily mounting problems, many of which can be traced directly to her brattish younger brother Bjarke, for whom she seems to have assumed parental responsibility.

    Before long (and to nobody's great surprise), we see these two pairs of siblings brought crashing together by life's twists and turns. Kresten is summoned back to Lolland in the middle of his honeymoon by news of his father's death. He soon sees that Rud is incapable of looking after himself and is forced to stay on temporarily in Lolland.

    His advertisement for a housekeeper attracts Liva's attention just as she finally wears out her welcome in Copenhagen. Bjarke lasts about five minutes in the big city without her, and soon follows her to Lolland.

    The interplay between these makeshift cohabitees is wonderful, particularly Rud's relationships with Kresten and Bjarke. Endless summer evenings spent in Lolland's rural idyll with these four for company will soon have you believing in crop circles and cellar-dwelling samurai heroes.

    On the back of some audacious tricks to get us this far, Kragh-Jacobsen delivers a transcendent hour or so in the middle of this film that reminds me of just why I love the cinema so much.

    Having created this beautiful, shimmering landscape (both emotional and physical), and reminded us that love for your family - and perhaps, in a special way, your siblings - is its own reward, the movie finds it has nowhere particular left to go. There are supporting characters - some of them reasonably well-formed, others not - but once our quartet is established and the relationships between them start to blossom, any involvement from outsiders is unwelcome, unfulfilling and only likely to bring trouble.

    It's no spoiler, for I mean it purely in structural terms, when I say that we are brought to a bumpy and unsatisfying ending to this ride through the lives of four people we soon grow to care a great deal about.

    For me, though, despite its shortcomings, Mifune was a beautiful movie that I'm sure I'll watch again, many times.
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    • Feb 5, 2002

    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 12, 1999 (Denmark)
    • Countries of origin
      • Denmark
      • Sweden
    • Official sites
      • From the dogme 95 official site
      • Sony Pictures Classics
    • Language
      • Danish
    • Also known as
      • Mifune's Last Song
    • Filming locations
      • Horslunde, Lolland, Denmark
    • Production companies
      • Danmarks Radio (DR)
      • Nimbus Film Productions
      • SVT Drama
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $512,434
    • Gross worldwide
      • $512,434
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 38 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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