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Halvmand (2016)

Halvmand poster
Directed by
Frederik Louis Hviid
Country
Denmark
Runtime
30 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A married couple is in crisis. The wife wants to start a family but the husband is focused on reviving his TV career. When he gets a chance to work in Germany, he secretly sabotages their plans and lies about it. The two spend a painful night confronting their choices.

tenseclaustrophobicemotionally rawgrimslow-burnmelancholicuncomfortable

What happens

Halvmand er en dansk kortfilm fra 2016 instrueret af Frederik Louis Hviid. Skuespillerparret Jens og Marina er i krise. Tiden er ved at rinde ud for Marina, der brændende ønsker sig en familie - Jens har tilsyneladende kun sin skrantende tv-karriere for øje. Så da han langt om længe får muligheden for at genetablere sig som tv-ikon i en stor tysk produktion, vælger han i al hemmelighed at sætte en stopper for familieforøgelsen for at drage til Berlin. Nu bekriger den blødagtige halvmand og den sårede hustru hinanden i et rædselsdøgn, hvor løgn og selvbedrag får dem begge til at sætte store spørgsmålstegn ved deres valg i livet. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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