When A Man Comes Home
a THOMAS VINTERBERG picture
Synopsis
From the director of Festen, a tender offbeat comedy on the complexities of love and family.
It’s summertime and the famous opera singer Karl Kristian Schmidt is on his way home. The town has come alive for his performance, and at the centre of all the madness and expectations we find the shy and stuttering Sebastian who is engaged to the beautiful Claudia. However his first love, the irresistible Maria resurfaces and even though he had promised himself to remain the nicest guy in town they collide in a ripe grain field. To top it all, his lesbian mother reveals that his supposedly dead father is none other than Karl Kristian Schmidt, who has also had a collision of his own with the beautiful Maria. During a grand gala dinner, the skeletons come rattling out of the closet. A man has come home – and nothing is as it used to be!
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Press
"Tenderly comic… this funny Festen bowed to a warm audience at the Rome Film Festival… Has the feel of a Mozart comic opera. But the film’s lightness of touch and nicely casual visual style take the edge off any formalism, and show that the spirit of Dogme has not quite deserted Vinterberg."
SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
"Marks a homecoming for its director…just like in his Oscar-winning masterpiece, Festen, he candidly explores the infinite complications of family life and sentiments"
L’ALTRO CINEMA
"A tenderly comic affair…”When A Man Comes Home” has the feel of a Mozart comic opera. But the film’s lightness of touch and nicely casual visual style take the edge off any formalism..Some of the funniest scenes revolve around a prima-donna chef who is drafted in to perform his quasi-spiritual feats of culinary alchemy to keep the star guest happy and ends up having to make do with serving him a glass of water. Knauer is perfect as the fussy male diva, surrounded by assistants who bore him and enjoying his power…an artsy, bittersweet comedy."
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Festivals
& Awards
Rome International Film Festival
Norwegian International Film Festival
FebioFest in Prague
Cast & Crew
| Oliver Møller Knauer | |
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| Thomas Bo Larsen | |
| Ronja Mannov Olesen | |
| Helene Reingaard Neumann | |
| Morten Grunwald | |
| Karen Lise Mynster | |
| Ulla Henningsen | |
| Gitte Christensen |
| Director | Thomas Vinterberg |
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| Screenplay | Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov, Morten Kaufmann |
| Producer | Morten Kaufmann |
| Cinematography | Anthony Dod Mantle |
| Production Designers | Morten Isbrand, Anja Wessel |
| Sound | Kristian Eidnes Andersen, Eddie Simonsen |
| Music | Johan Söderqvist |
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