Nothing's All Bad

A brave, stylish and accomplished debut feature from one of Denmark’s most exciting young filmmakers, Mikkel Munch-Fals. Nothing’s All Bad is an unflinching exploration of loneliness, desire and sexuality. Four lost souls, each struggling to connect, find their lives consciously and unconsciously colliding. Ingeborg has just retired. Her increasing isolation leads her into a rather unconventional one-night-stand. Jonas is young and good looking and should be out having fun. But he needs to make a living, and those good looks might be the only thing he can rely on. Anna is recovering from a mastectomy. Her physical wounds may have healed, but how can she express herself sexually with such an unfamiliar body? Middle-aged Anders has a pretty conventional life on the surface of things, but this apparent normality hides a dark and deeply unacceptable compulsion. Munch-Fals gradually builds an empathetic portrait of people at the margins of society. Refreshingly, he avoids the broad brushstrokes of stereotype, with each character and their search for intimacy being subtly drawn and sensitively realised. –Sarah Lutton