A tragicomedy focused on the relationship between the owner of a beauty clinic and a transgender woman.A tragicomedy focused on the relationship between the owner of a beauty clinic and a transgender woman.A tragicomedy focused on the relationship between the owner of a beauty clinic and a transgender woman.
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- TriviaFeature film directorial debut for Pernille Fischer Christensen.
- ConnectionsReferences Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- SoundtracksTake My Breath Away
Written by Karin Dreijer and Olof Dreijer
Performed by The Knife
Courtesy of Rabid Records
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The film starts with Carolina, hectic owner of a beauty parlor having just moved out from boyfriend Kristian, into the apartment over Veronika. Veronika drags along watching soaps, occasionally fulfilling wishes of sex clients, and desperately awaiting her operation transforming her into the woman she wants to be. After yet another confrontation with her well meaning mother Veronika attempts suicide. Carolina above wakes up, finds her, gets her to hospital and takes Veronika's dog, miss Daisy into her care. After Veronika returns, the neighbours find an interest for each other, in the turmoil of their search for affection with others. During a wild party à deux they even come to feel more, for which however there seems to be no room.
At the beginning the film made me fear I'd come to watch a trendy and fatiguing freak show frenzy, but hanging on it got me more and more interested in the slowly developing strand of tenderness in the middle of these rather chaotic scenes.
With the pink borders of kitsch the film owns to its title (the cliffhanger like voice-over asking the viewer what may come next, the zooming in on the blossoms outside the apartment block where it all takes place) the film convinced me eventually with its moving depiction of the ensuing blossoming of feelings between the main characters. All of this filmed with Dogma-inspired directness, closeness en nervousness, which I don't mind at all.
At the beginning the film made me fear I'd come to watch a trendy and fatiguing freak show frenzy, but hanging on it got me more and more interested in the slowly developing strand of tenderness in the middle of these rather chaotic scenes.
With the pink borders of kitsch the film owns to its title (the cliffhanger like voice-over asking the viewer what may come next, the zooming in on the blossoms outside the apartment block where it all takes place) the film convinced me eventually with its moving depiction of the ensuing blossoming of feelings between the main characters. All of this filmed with Dogma-inspired directness, closeness en nervousness, which I don't mind at all.
- michel-tillie
- Jan 16, 2007
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,164
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,445
- Nov 5, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $192,030
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