Kalak

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Kalak

2023

2h 5m

Drama

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5 Reviews

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Jan is on the run from himself after being sexually abused by his father. Living in Greenland with his little family, he yearns to be a part of the open, collectivist culture and become a Kalak, a "dirty Greenlander".

Jonathan Romney

Screen International

09/28/2023

Kalak is nothing if not arresting – especially with its intensely unsettling lead performance from Emil Johnsen as a man enduring the long-gestating effects of trauma.

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David Jenkins

Little White Lies

09/26/2023

The setting is what makes the film interesting and unique, even if the storytelling often leaves much to be desired...

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Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

10/18/2023

3.5/5

Eklöf also doesn’t deal in absolutes, allowing us to see that Jan is both damaged and damaging, not just to himself but others - a hot mess in a cold climate.

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Luis Martínez

El Mundo (Spain)

09/27/2023

4/5

Kalak is made from a sensation close to absence, from an initial repulsion that the director doses throughout the film with a pulse and a few drops of cruelty. [Full review in Spanish]

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Carlos F. Heredero

Caimán Cuadernos de Cine

09/27/2023

A film so ugly, so stylistically inane, so misguided in its planning, so arbitrary in its narratological construction, so mechanical in its internal dramaturgy and so obviously illustrative. [Full review in Spanish]

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Synopsis

Jan is on the run from himself after being sexually abused by his father. Living in Greenland with his little family, he yearns to be a part of the open, collectivist culture and become a Kalak, a "dirty Greenlander".

Director: Isabella Eklöf
Producer: Maria Møller Kjeldgaard
Screenwriter: Kim Leine, Kim Leine, Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen, Isabella Eklöf, Isabella Eklöf, Kim Leine, Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen
Production Co: Manna Film
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Danish
Runtime: 2h 5m