Mad & Film

Lørdag d. 17/5

Kl. 18 Mad: Medister m. kartoffelsalat

Kl. 20 Film: De grønne slagtere

The Green Butchers

From Academy Award winning Director Anders Thomas Jensen and in the dark vein of Delicatessen and Eating Raoul, The Green Butchers brings you the dynamic duo of Bjarne and Svend, two pals who decide to open their own butcher shop. Grappling with a competitive market and an evil ex-boss, the two come up with a special dish that suddenly has everyone flocking to their counter - and dying for more. As business heats up however, so does the competition and suddenly everyone is asking about Bjarne and Svend's "special ingredients".

R - Restricted                                                                                                  Language and disturbing images

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen

Cast:                                                                                                   Bjarne:  Nikolai Lie Kaas                                                                       Svend:   Mads Mikkelsen                                                  

Lørdag d. 14/6

(OBS! Dette er den 2. lørdag i juni, da vi holder Sankt Hans den 3. søndag!)

Kl. 18 Mad: Koldskål

Kl. 20 Film: Italiensk for begyndere (dogme-film)

This is the fifth Danish Dogme-film. Before the show there will be a short introduction about what a Dogme-film is.

Italien for Beginners

Several lonely hearts in Copenhagen use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. A young minister, a widower, is temporarily assigned to a church whose suspended pastor drove parishioners away; he stays at a hotel where he meets Jørgen, who's alone approaching middle age. Jørgen's friend Finn, a temperamental restaurant manager, may be about to be fired. Finn's assistant is Giulia, a lovely young Italian who prays for a husband. Olympia, a clumsy bakery clerk, has an ornery father; Karen, a hairdresser, has a mother who is very ill. The paths of these six characters cross at church, in the restaurant, at the hotel, and at an Italian class at the local adult school. Loneliness, grief, solace, romance, and love may meet 'nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita.'

Not recommended for children below the age of 7

Director and writer: Lone Scherfig 

Cast:

Lørdag d. 19/7

Kl. 18 Mad: stegt flæsk m. persillesovs

Kl. 20 Film: Babettes gæstebud

Babettes Feast

This Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Language Film was a big art house hit, spawning a whole international subgenre, "foodie" (films about the liberating effects of good food). It's adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen about two sisters in a 19th century Denmark who, under their late father's rigorous spiritual dictates, pass up their chances for romance and worldly success. Years pass; they grow into charitable old spinsters and one day a French war refugee, Babette (Stéphane Audran), comes to work for them. Life goes quietly one for years until one day Babette decides to prepare a lavish gourmet dinner for the elders of the town, even though the thought of such decadence makes the sisters fear for their Christian souls. This all may sound rather dull to some viewers, but rest assured, no one who has seen this film has ever regretted it. Even with its measured pacing and austere emotional palette this remains a riveting experience from the first frame to the last. The acting is marvelously naturalistic, and the cinematography evokes the dark beauty of 19th century Scandinavian paintings, rendering the ancient, white-whiskered faces of the villagers, the windswept coastline, the wood-hewn interiors, and of course the incredible food, with a vital, deeply felt reverence that lingers in the mind long after the film is over.

Based on a story by Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen. There will be a short introduction about Karen Blixen, Pietism in Denmark in the 19th century and the impact of this movie.

Rated NR

Director: Gabriel Axel

The Seamen's Church will be closed in August and therefore there will be no Movie Night this month!