A dour Danish version of Dynasty without the gloss and glamour but with subtitles.
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09/20/04
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Inheritance (2003)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:27
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.7/10
Theatrical Release:Jul 9, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: The Danish family drama THE INHERITANCE (ARVEN) is part of a larger movement towards realism through digital filmmaking. Christoffer (Ulrich Thomsen, THE CELEBRATION) abandoned his family life for... [More]
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Reviews for Inheritance
It's not exactly fun family entertainment, but it is a realistic depiction of a man struggling between family duty and happiness.
09/17/04
It's a poignant, even heart-rending reflection on how doing the right thing isn't as simple as we were once taught.
09/16/04
Top CriticAs it moves forward, this bleak parable of business and power teases you with possibilities.
09/10/04
The Inheritance offers a more fascinating fictionalized look at what cut-throat capitalism can do to conscience.
09/09/04
All the great emotions we're used to in the works of Ibsen and Shakespeare wash over us in bountiful flow.
08/06/04
Top CriticAn initially insightful portrait of modern corporate society that unfortunately lapses into melodrama.
07/28/04
It traces the difficult and soul-destroying choices that have to be made to transform a failing family business into a potentially monopolistic multinational corporation.
07/23/04
Top CriticThe deft understatement of the actors and the resistance of cinematic artifice make the tale all the more devastating.
07/15/04
Top CriticStriking, often suspenseful.
07/09/04
Has a promising start but soon becomes preachy and melodramatic.
07/09/04
The second of a planned trilogy about class divisions, The Inheritance seems to say that money ruins everything. Save yours for another movie.
07/09/04
Top CriticThis relentlessly morose movie from Denmark is a sleek, desolate fable about the conflict between corporate values and human needs.
07/08/04
Top CriticThomsen gives a fully realized, utterly plausible portrayal of a man caught in an untenable dilemma.
07/08/04
Top CriticThe acting is fine, the filmmaking is honest, and the class-conscious story couldn't be more timely.
07/08/04
In the end, there's little left in that sad, cold figure at the head of the firm to compel our empathy or compassion.
07/06/04
The problems of a CEO nicely dramatized.
07/06/04
Every character trajectory is painfully schematic, and the filmmakers evoke cause-and-effect in the simplest terms possible.
06/14/04
Don´t expect a “they all lived happily ever after“ tale from helmer and coscripter Per Fly with “Inheritance.“
11/10/03
Fly's writing is subtle, believably building upon the small compromises... which create the type of moral vacuum whose creation cannot be understood from the outside.
11/04/03
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