The Gentle Pain (2019)

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.

Released Feb. 1, 2019 280 min None+

Genres: Drama

Keywords: imdb.eastern-europe, imdb.world-famous-author, imdb.marriage, imdb.hideout, imdb.swedish-cinema, imdb.movie-director, imdb.based-on-true-story, soundmix.dolby-digital

Production Companies: Posthus Teatret

Country: Denmark
Production Country: Denmark
Languages: English, French, Danish, Italian, Arabic, Swedish