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Love Is All You Need

Original title: Den skaldede frisør
  • 20122012
  • RR
  • 1h 56m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
14K
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POPULARITY
13,670
1,123
Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm in Love Is All You Need (2012)
A hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer finds out her husband is having an affair, travels to Italy for her daughter's wedding and meets a widower who still blames the world for the loss of his wife.
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A hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, finds out her husband is having an affair, travels to Italy for her daughter's wedding, and meets a widower who still blames the world for the ... Read allA hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, finds out her husband is having an affair, travels to Italy for her daughter's wedding, and meets a widower who still blames the world for the loss of his wife.A hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, finds out her husband is having an affair, travels to Italy for her daughter's wedding, and meets a widower who still blames the world for the loss of his wife.
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
14K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
13,670
1,123
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • Susanne Bier
    • Writers
      • Anders Thomas Jensen(screenplay)
      • Susanne Bier(story)
    • Stars
      • Pierce Brosnan
      • Trine Dyrholm
      • Molly Blixt Egelind
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Susanne Bier
    • Writers
      • Anders Thomas Jensen(screenplay)
      • Susanne Bier(story)
    • Stars
      • Pierce Brosnan
      • Trine Dyrholm
      • Molly Blixt Egelind
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 55User reviews
    • 130Critic reviews
    • 60Metascore
    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 14 nominations

    Videos2

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    Trailer 1:50
    Theatrical Version
    International Version
    Trailer 2:02
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    Photos31

    Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm in Love Is All You Need (2012)
    Pierce Brosnan in Love Is All You Need (2012)
    Molly Blixt Egelind in Love Is All You Need (2012)
    Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm in Love Is All You Need (2012)
    Micky Skeel Hansen and Christiane Schaumburg-Müller in Love Is All You Need (2012)
    Trine Dyrholm and Molly Blixt Egelind in Love Is All You Need (2012)
    Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm in Love Is All You Need (2012)
    Trine Dyrholm in Love Is All You Need (2012)
    Sebastian Jessen and Molly Blixt Egelind in Love Is All You Need (2012)
    Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm in Love Is All You Need (2012)
    Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Sebastian Jessen, Molly Blixt Egelind, and Ciro Petrone in Love Is All You Need (2012)
    Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm in Love Is All You Need (2012)

    Top cast

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    Pierce Brosnan
    Pierce Brosnan
    • Philip
    Trine Dyrholm
    Trine Dyrholm
    • Ida
    Molly Blixt Egelind
    Molly Blixt Egelind
    • Astrid
    Sebastian Jessen
    Sebastian Jessen
    • Patrick
    Stina Ekblad
    Stina Ekblad
    • Female Doctor
    Ciro Petrone
    Ciro Petrone
    • Alessandro
    Marco D'Amore
    Marco D'Amore
    • Marco
    Line Kruse
    • Bitten
    Paprika Steen
    Paprika Steen
    • Benedikte
    Birthe Neumann
    • Wiebe
    Kim Bodnia
    Kim Bodnia
    • Leif
    Christiane Schaumburg-Müller
    • Thilde
    Bodil Jørgensen
    • Vibe
    Christiane Rohde
    Anne O. Pagh
    Micky Skeel Hansen
    • Kenneth
    Frederikke Thomassen
    • Alexandra
    Rikke Louise Andersson
    Rikke Louise Andersson
    • Director
      • Susanne Bier
    • Writers
      • Anders Thomas Jensen(screenplay) (story)
      • Susanne Bier(story)
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The original Danish title translates to "The Bald Hairdresser".
    • Goofs
      In the opening scene, the female doctor asks Ida to consider a breast reconstruction because one breast has been removed, but she declines; later she's swimming in the nude and when she emerges from the scene, it's obvious that she still has both breasts.
    • Quotes

      Ida: I really don't understand why anybody will work for you. When... when you're so awful and stupid and not nice.

      Philip: I pay him good money.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Venice Film Festival 2012 (2012)
    • Soundtracks
      That's Amore
      Written by Harry Warren (as Warren) and Jack Brooks (as Brooks)

      Performed by Dean Martin

    User reviews55

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    Top review
    8/10
    Excellent entertainment for nearly 2 hours, based on an ingenious script with several sub-plots
    I saw this film as part of the Ghent filmfestival 2012. Usually I've little interest in feelgood movies, and particularly not when wedding festivities are an integral element. But the synopsis in the filmfestival brochure had that little something that made me book tickets, and I'm not disappointed. That does not mean that important questions of life and death are discussed, but rather that it proves solid entertainment for the whole duration (nearly 2 hours), no more no less. You will forget about the movie later on, to remember only that it was pleasant and amusing throughout.

    The story line develops steadily, and all important characters get time to be introduced to the audience. In other words, we really get the chance to know them. These introductions are spread evenly, and luckily not condensed in the first quarter.

    Center of the proceedings is hairdresser Ida, who just returned from hospital after a cancer treatment. She is wearing a wig as a result, hence the original title "The bald hairdresser" (possibly for commercial reasons translated to "Love is all you need"). Still not certain about the ultimate success of the cancer treatment, she returns home. There she finds her husband Leif with the much younger Tilde (from "accounting") doing it on the couch. Ida does not take it lightly, and a divorce seems imminent.

    As her daughter Astrid will be getting married in Italy within a few days, she travels alone to the airport. In her nerves to park the car in order to catch her flight, she collides with the car of a business man in vegetables (Philip). He happens to be the father of the groom (Patrick), and on his way to the same marriage. This coincidence seems a bit of a stretch as well as statistically impossible. Luckily it is the only thing in this film that I consider far fetched. Combining that encounter with the fact (we learn that later on) that he is a widower, allows us to predict the main story line from that moment on. However... It does not happen that way, at least not exactly.

    Apart from the developments around the relationship between Ida and Philip, there are ample opportunities for sub-plots and new characters to be introduced along the line. All this gets gradually interwoven in the story, without giving us a feeling that the film makers are overdoing it. The time that the film takes, much more than the average 90 minutes, offers sufficient room for parallel story lines to develop and come to a (sometimes happy, sometimes not so happy) conclusion. The script mixes all these many ingredients in an ingenious way, and stays believable from start to finish (aforementioned car accident being the only exception).

    I don't think it makes any sense to delve deeper in the scenario. Which is next to impossible anyway without revealing how the story develops, and without introducing spoilers in the text. That would take away much of the surprise, a definite no-no, since surprises are the main ingredients out of which this film is made.

    Apart from superb casting and acting that we are allowed to witness, the story line (better: story lines) suffice to keep the viewer interested all the time in what will happen next. I could not spot any dull moments, in other words fully qualified entertainment for the whole family. Expecting no more than what the label says, I scored it deservedly with a maximum (5) for the audience award when leaving the theater.
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    • Oct 21, 2012

    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 6, 2012 (Denmark)
    • Countries of origin
      • Denmark
      • Sweden
      • Italy
      • France
      • Germany
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook (Denmark)
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Languages
      • English
      • Danish
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • All You Need Is Love
    • Filming locations
      • Sorrento, Naples, Campania, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Zentropa Productions
      • Zentropa International Sweden
      • Zentropa International Köln
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • €5,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,631,709
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $36,746
      • May 5, 2013
    • Gross worldwide
      • $16,722,143
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 56 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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