Prague

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Alain E @AlainE 5h A "deep " movie about living your life like a twelve year old. The hero is a middle aged married Scandinavian lawyer who travels to Prague with his wife in order to arrange for the transfer home of his estranged father’s corpse. There he learns that his father avoided contact because at mid life he realized that he was gay. Also learns that the wife that he was neglecting and with whom he shares a son, has started a new relationship and she discovers during the trip that she is pregnant. She intends to keep the child and go live with her lover. At the very last moment he decides to relinquish his father’s body to his Czech lover. Then he walks the streets. Does he plan to stay in Prague? What about his son? See more Elizabeth B @RT79277932 11/26/2024 The moments of absurdity, from the first restaurant scene in Prague, to the shipping of a dead father to Nigeria instead of to the European home country of the son, to the absolutely bizarre (absurd in extreme) scene in the morgue are wrapped around the story of a failing marriage. That the marriage failed and it took the wife 14 years to realize she knew nothing about her husband, and he knew only a few things about himself (he doesn't like drinks with strange fruits in them), was absurd in itself. The whole movie is a study in Czech (and Scandinavian) mordant humor, which not a single review seems to have picked up on. I found the movie hilarious at times. The sadness of the tale is obvious, but so is the "duh, you mean you never asked your mother why your father left?" aspect of things. This is a movie about man's alienation from himself and humankinds alienation from itself, so no, no one is coming to the bus station. Some folks have wondered why this film took place in Prague. I suspect it takes place there because aside from the city of Prague, Czechoslovakia hardly exists in folks minds as a place--it's been taken over by this country, or that country, and just kind of is a noplace that knows itself. See more R 9 @RT00952237 10/06/2023 A solid drama flick, one that feels like it wants to be some sort of psychological thriller in how it's shot and heard on occasion. Mads Mikkelsen and Stine Stengade are a good lead pair. The story is more focused on Mikkelsen's Christoffer than Stengade's Maja, though the latter still has a part to play. It's all well told and well paced and features decent music. I wouldn't note it as anything overly noteworthy, though 'Prague' is very much watchable. See more 07/30/2015 Really hurtful and emotional movie. Very dark overall and almost comically tragic. See more 11/02/2014 Mads as Christoffer is a good guy who is hurt, flawed and doesn't know what to do with the failing relationship. The ending was very poignant and somewhat left you hanging. A really nice Danish film. See more 06/30/2014 Very mature and witty script , great performance by both the leading actors,the music was also insightful. See more Read all reviews

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