nordicfilmfestival – OutLoud! Culture

The Review: Anders Thomas Jensen’s ‘The Last Viking’

Neill Frazer — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:12:13 +0000

Anders Thomas Jensen’s The Last Viking arrives combining dark comedy mixed with crime, family dysfunction, and cartoonish bloodshed. Fresh out of prison after a long stretch for bank robbery, Anker (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) tracks down his mentally fragile brother Manfred (Mads Mikkelsen), the only person who knows where the stolen loot was buried. Manfred, however, has…

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The Review: Reviving a Rebel In “Being Bo Widerberg”

Neill Frazer — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:41:48 +0000

Bo Widerberg remains one of Swedish cinema’s great what-ifs—a passionate, working-class auteur from Malmö who dared to challenge Ingmar Bergman’s dominance in the 1960s and crafted a body of work grounded in social realism and everyday beauty. Jon Asp and Mattias Nohrborg’s documentary, Being Bo Widerberg, is a heartfelt tribute and a touching farewell. It…

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The Review: ‘The Kidnapping of a President’

Neill Frazer — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:02:27 +0000

The Kidnapping of a President is a brisk, fact-based dark comedy from Finnish director Samuli Valkama. On October 14, 1930, a group of drunken far-right military officers from the Lapua Movement impulsively decided to kidnap Finland’s first president, the retired Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (Pertti Sveholm), and his wife Ester (Riitta Havukainen). What should have been…

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