Sex, Drugs & Taxation

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Audience Member Wild living in denmark in the 60s. Real life of Simon Spies, his "morgenbolledamer" and his tax adviser, the almost non-recogniseable but excellent Nicolas Bro!!! Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member A lot of people in Scandinavia remembers Mogens Glistrup for his tireless struggle against taxes and The King of Travel, Simon Spies for his gallant ladies and the many lurid headlines in the weekly press, but not many know the story of their close friendship, a friendship that followed them through life - two lives marked by both up - and downs. Spies travel agency developed the danish mass tourism. Everyone wanted to go to Majorca, and he made it possible. Spies was an extravagant, hedonistic playboy who didn´t shirk from using his sexual escapades for marketing purposes. In the 1970s, he spent millions on a psychedelic quest for himself, while the unattractive bourgeois Glistrup stubbornly developed his conservative anti-tax position into a surprising political career. In the fictional world Christoffer Boe tells the story of two charismatic and top talented eccentrics who changed both Denmark and the Danes' everyday lives. Together and separately, they broke if anyone against the Jante law and the Danes loved them for it. The film is set during the years 1965-1984. This bio-pic brags that parts of it is based on facts and other parts not. And I reckon this will always be the "problem" with bio-pics. What is actually true and what is based on the writer/director´s creative freedom. There´s no doubt that Mogens Glistrup and Simon Spies were two really eccentrics with all sorts of strange behaviour and their antics sold a lot of newspapers in the whole of Scandinavia for sure. At the same time, I am most certain that these two characters could really only get away with it in Denmark and somehow win the hearts of the danes with actions that would´ve not really been accepted in the rest of Scandinavia. I reckon everybody else felt some sort of moral panic walking alongside these two. Both Pilou Asbaek as Simon Spies and Nicolas Bro as Nicolas Bro make the two eccentrics come alive, but at the same time they also become two really "cartoony" and "sketchy" over the top figures that doesn´t really fully convince you that they´re based on real persons. Not to mention, not very loveable either when showing their full persona. And I got to mention the lovely Camilla Lehmann as Inger. Classic danish beauty. "Spies & Glistrup" (aka "Sex, Drugs & Taxation") is funny, strange, intriguing, but yet not fully believable due to the too comic and slap stick set up from director Christoffer Boe. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Movie starts very boring but gets more and more interesting afterwards. Players did a good job. You really feel 60 & 70`s of crazy Denmark :-) Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member You cannot visit TIFF13 without seeing an arthouse feature and for me on my first Toronto adventure Sex, Drugs and Taxation was the designated film. I was not disappointed. Being Scandanavian and with the movies Englishg Title you can expect to see boobs and butts but what I didn't expect was a Gorilla being frighted by a penis! Yes You read that correctly and the Director Christoffer Boe warned the audience prior. What was most interesting about this film was the fact that that the Characters and events were based on real Danish people and events and if you did not know that you would expect this to e a piece of experimental film that channels Benny Hill! Indeed I found myself thinking that only the Europeans and I am including the Brits in that could be so bold not only in cinema but in life itself. Do yourself a favour and check this one out and prepare to have your mouth open in dis-belief during and after the film. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member As good as expected! Loved it! Asbæk and Bro performed the hell out of themselves. Great story, with both fun and drama. Well shot. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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