The Gentle Pain (2019)

  • NR
  • 02/01/2019 (NL)
  • Drama
  • 4h 40m

Overview

One can't help wondering whether, some quarter-century ago, Carsten Brandt had the slightest inkling of the epic dimension the project he was then starting to conceive – The Gentle Pain – would take on in the subsequent decades. For it became epic in just about every sense of the word: the film is very long; it tells a multi-layered story characterised as much by its digressions as by its main narrative thread, which concerns a filmmaker’s attempts to make sense of the life of Thorkild Hansen, a Danish traveller/historian/writer internationally probably best known for his non-fiction novel Processen mod Hamsun (1978); and it took a long time to finish – and then sat on a shelf due to legal battles galore. What is now finally revealed is a monument of modern(ist) cinema: a work that as much charts one man’s journey into his soul as a voyage of discovery into another artist’s mind.

Carsten Brandt

Screenplay, Director

Cast

Ewa Fröling's headshot

Ewa Fröling

Caspar Phillipson's headshot

Caspar Phillipson

Laure Calamy's headshot

Laure Calamy

Kasper Leisner's headshot

Kasper Leisner

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