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Dark Horse

Voksne mennesker

Denmark, Iceland

2005

109 Min
Color, Black and White
1.85:1
Danish, English
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DIR Dagur Kári

PROD Birgitte Skov, Morten Kaufmann

SCR Dagur Kári, Rune Schjøtt

DP Manuel Alberto Claro

CAST Jakob Cedergren, Nicolas Bro, Tilly Scott Pedersen, Morten Suurballe, Bodil Jørgensen, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Anders Hove, Kristian Halken, Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Michelle Bjørn-Andersen

ED Daniel Dencik

PROD DES Rikke Rosbaek

MUSIC Dagur Kári

SOUND Pétur Einarsson

Cannes (Un Certain Regard), Transilvania (Competition): Cinemagia Award, Helsinki, Vancouver, AFI FEST (International Competition), Mar del Plata, Göteborg (Nordisk tävling): Best Nordic Film

Synopsis

Dark Horse is an offbeat comedy about Daniel, a somewhat irresponsible but charming young graffiti artist who doesn’t care even though everybody is trying to track him down: Parking attendants, landlords, bills and the police. One day he falls in love with Franc, a girl just as irresponsible and charming as he is. All of a sudden his easy-going days are over and he is face to face with a serious leap of faith. –Zik Zak

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Dagur Kári

He was born in Paris, France to Icelandic parents and returned to Iceland when he was 3 years old. Dagur graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1999, with art house short movie Lost Weekend. The film got off to a good start and gained the first popularity winning 11 prizes on the international festival circuit.
The first feature film Noi the Albino (Nói albínói) he released in 2003 and also won several international awards. Then followed with his second film, Voksne mennesker (Dark Horse), which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2008, he finished his first English language film The Good Heart, starring Brian Cox, Paul Dano and Isild Le Besco. He is also a member of the band Slowblow, whose music featured in Nói albínói. 

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msmichel

25Mar13

A young slacker of sorts is forced to confront responsibility after taking up with a beautiful young girl who suddenly becomes pregnant. Nothing new under the sun here but the film does have a flavour of whimsy and easy charm about it. Bro is quite good as the football referee obsessed best friend. The idea that despite walk of life all are hopeless characters to an extent comes across pretty well.

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chaplen

21Mar13

this was almost like watching a dream unravel before your eyes with it's charming yet realistic characters and their lives which all sort of start to happen at once. it was composed of whimsy and the idea of just being and that's what made it great.

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Katya Kazbek

1Mar13

From the beginning it strongly felt like a modern version of 'I Am Curious', only the politics are much more subtle, and this works to the film's advantage: it's light-hearted, incredibly funny, honest, and beautiful. The style of 'Dark Horse' is something many young American directors are trying to accomplish, and almost invariably fail at: a great lesson on handling humour from the Scandinavians.

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Pál

5Feb13

Its comical component was so strong -- long scenes with impossible, oversimplified side characters -- that it overshadowed the look on life it wanted to express; I sometimes felt the point in the whole film was to elicit laughs. But that, it did well.

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Review: DARK HORSE Gallops to Difficult Finish Line

By Twitchfilm.com on August 6, 2012
Once again, toy collecting is the extension of social hopelessness in Todd Solondz latest film, DARK HORSE. But unlike, say, Steve Carell in THE 40 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, it’s not an element intended to cause
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London 2011: Dark Horse Review

By Twitchfilm.com on October 11, 2011
Todd Solondz is either a pretty happy guy with a great imagination, or rather miserable and willing to share. Or it could be somewhere in between; either way, he has a knack for creating misanthropic characters
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