Comments on: Open Hearts (Elsker Dig For Evigt, Denmark 2002) https://globalfilmstudies.com/2012/12/09/open-hearts-elsker-dig-for-evigt-denmark-2002/ An introduction to global film for teachers and students Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:40:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: des1967 https://globalfilmstudies.com/2012/12/09/open-hearts-elsker-dig-for-evigt-denmark-2002/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:40:43 +0000 http://itpworld.wordpress.com/?p=7835#comment-163 On the Dogme aesthetic, I found some of the cinematography to be quite disconcerting. Some of the footage early on had this orange-green tint which reminds me of the films my classes made in the early days of video cameras. The effect was to draw attention to the fact that what we were seeing was a film (and not in a particularly Brechtian way). It reminded me also of the way Von Trier used his camera in Dancing in the Dark (an incredibly powerful film, by the way). Instead of cutting between shots of characters in conversation, he would swing the camera round from character to character and again draw attention to the artificiality of the situation. I can’t remember how the rules of continuity editing were dealt with in the Dogme protocols but I found Von Trier’s later Dogville films, where he often did away with scenery and marked out areas on the sound stage with chalk, to be less irksome.

Going back to Open Hearts, I got the impression that the director and cinematographer got things together more in the latter half of the film, often with the use of candles etc. I must admit that I find any of the strictures of the Dogme dogma somewhat bogus. I suppose the justification in the end was some pretty powerful films.

]]> By: Roy Stafford https://globalfilmstudies.com/2012/12/09/open-hearts-elsker-dig-for-evigt-denmark-2002/comment-page-1/#comment-162 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:45:09 +0000 http://itpworld.wordpress.com/?p=7835#comment-162 Last night on The Killing III, Sonja Richter turned up as the wife of the character Mathias Borch played by Nikolaj Lie Kaas – who has just been reviving an old passion with Sarah Lund. “Oh, do keep up!” as Brix would say.

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