Prague

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Elizabeth B The moments of absurdity, from the first restaurant scene in Prague, to the shipping of a dead father to Nigeria instead of to the European home country of the son, to the absolutely bizarre (absurd in extreme) scene in the morgue are wrapped around the story of a failing marriage. That the marriage failed and it took the wife 14 years to realize she knew nothing about her husband, and he knew only a few things about himself (he doesn't like drinks with strange fruits in them), was absurd in itself. The whole movie is a study in Czech (and Scandinavian) mordant humor, which not a single review seems to have picked up on. I found the movie hilarious at times. The sadness of the tale is obvious, but so is the "duh, you mean you never asked your mother why your father left?" aspect of things. This is a movie about man's alienation from himself and humankinds alienation from itself, so no, no one is coming to the bus station. Some folks have wondered why this film took place in Prague. I suspect it takes place there because aside from the city of Prague, Czechoslovakia hardly exists in folks minds as a place--it's been taken over by this country, or that country, and just kind of is a noplace that knows itself. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/26/24 Full Review R 9 A solid drama flick, one that feels like it wants to be some sort of psychological thriller in how it's shot and heard on occasion. Mads Mikkelsen and Stine Stengade are a good lead pair. The story is more focused on Mikkelsen's Christoffer than Stengade's Maja, though the latter still has a part to play. It's all well told and well paced and features decent music. I wouldn't note it as anything overly noteworthy, though 'Prague' is very much watchable. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Really hurtful and emotional movie. Very dark overall and almost comically tragic. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Mads as Christoffer is a good guy who is hurt, flawed and doesn't know what to do with the failing relationship. The ending was very poignant and somewhat left you hanging. A really nice Danish film. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Very mature and witty script , great performance by both the leading actors,the music was also insightful. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member I relate most to Christoffer. He is detached from his feelings & from himself it seems. In one scene his father's lawyer says he's not very good at doing things alone & Christoffer says that's he is good at it....doing things alone. kind of made me think, we become so good at doing things & being alone....that we detach ourselves, or maybe it just happens to us. When you stand to lose something very important to you, not even that can trump who you've become....totally self reliant...almost too much. Because, then you start to lose what you love, but if you can't force yourself to do anything about it...maybe it has left you & it doesn't matter & you are able to walk away. It's sad not to feel, but it's also amazing when you can just walk away. That's what I got from it anyway. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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