Film
Drama
Romance

Classics: Open Hearts

What's on

Country

Denemarken

Year

2002

Language

Danish spoken, Dutch subtitles

Actors

Mads Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter, Nikolai Lie Kaas, Stine Bjerregaard

Director

Susanne Bier

Duration

113 min

Two lives brutally intersect when a young couple is involved in a tragic accident. What follows is not a conventional love drama, but a gripping exploration of moral complexity, raw emotions and uncontrollable desires. Director Susanne Bier at her best.

When badly injured Joachim ends up in hospital, his girlfriend seeks comfort from the doctor taking care of her - a married man with his own hurts. As their bond deepens, loyalty, guilt and love come on a collision course.

Filmed in the spirit of Dogma 95 - with handheld camera, natural light and a documentary-like immediacy - Open Hearts feels like life itself: messy, intense and unpredictable. Beer shows with great compassion how people stumble, find each other, lose, and yet keep going.

A film that cuts and heals, and will stay with you for a long time.