- Terribly Happy
- Friday, May 7, 2010
- 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
- The Tower Theatre
- 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno [map]
- $10.00 General Admission
- $8.00 for Students and Seniors
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“Terribly Happy turns into a twisted thriller, in the manner of the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple. On one level, it’s a story of tragic codependence. … On another, it’s a tale of a criminal coverup. But director Henrik Ruben Genz keeps bending the conventions of those genres.” Michael O’Sullivan, The Washington Post
“At heart, Terribly Happy plays like a classic Western: the frontier town, the local bad man, the new marshal, the townspeople, the cute and vulnerable heroine.” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“New marshal in town, circle the wagons — it sounds like a Western. … Or, if you’re in a noir mood, you can see it as the story of a sucker in a downbeat world who falls for a femme fatale.” Walter Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
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Synopsis
Robert Hanson (Jakob Cedergren) is a Copenhagen police officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated Marshall position and subsequently gets mixed up with a married femme fatale. Robert’s big city temperament makes it impossible for him to fit in, or understand the uncivilized, bizarre behavior displayed by the townspeople. Quickly spiraling downward into an intense fable reminiscent of the Coen Brothers’ BLOOD SIMPLE and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, TERRIBLY HAPPY displays a unique, often macabre vision of the darkest depths to which people will go to achieve a sense of security and belonging.
Directed by Henrik Ruben Genz
Denmark, 2009, 35mm
90 minutes, No Rating
Danish with English subtitles