Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Tomas Alfredson Stars: Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, J K Simmons, Val Kilmer, Toby Jones, Michael Yates, David Dencik, Jonas Karlsson, James D'Arcy, Jakob Oftebro, Adrian Dunbar, Chloe Sevigny, Ronan Vibert, Genevieve O'Reilly. Nordic noir tends to be darker and bleaker than your typical Hollywood crime thriller, probably because …
TOM OF FINLAND
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Dome Karukoski Stars: Pekka Strang, Lauri Tilkanen, Jessica Grabowsky, Seumas Sergent, Jakob Oftebro, Christian Sandstrom, Niklas Hogner, Werner Daen. Finland's official entry for the Foreign Language Oscar in 2018, this handsome looking production is a biopic of artist Touko Laaksonen, whose erotic drawings under the pseudonym of Tom of Finland had a huge influence on gay …
SCANDINAVIAN FILM FESTIVAL REVIEWS
Reviewed by GREG KING Last updated July 17 2016. GOLD COAST. "Africa is the graveyard of ambition." And so it proves for Danish botanist Wulff Frederik Wulff (played by Norwegian actor Jakob Oftebro, from the tv series Lilyhammer, etc) who is sent to the Danish colony of Guinea in west Africa to create a coffee plantation. When he arrives there Wulff is full of optimism and hope, but he soon confronts the …
