27/08/2003

Inheritance is the most successful Danish film of the first six months of 2003 according to data just published by the Danish Film Institute (DFI).
The second instalment of Per Fly’s trilogy was released domestically on 21 February and attracted 380,000 filmgoers. Significantly it outperformed a local blockbuster, Anja after Viktor, by Charlotte Sachs Bostrup (346,000 tickets).

The DFI data proves the growing popularity of titles with a wide-ranging appeal (as a result of several years’ worth of hard work). They include The Green Butchers [+see also:
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film profile], 3rd with 245,000 admissions, Old, New, Borrowed and Blue by Natasha Arthy - 5th with 153.000 and Cinder Rock'n Rella by Charlotte Sachs Bostrup & Mikala Bjarnov Lage – 6th with 147.000.
Dogma seems to have lost much of its initial appeal and the latest examples (made in English) underwhelmed Danish audiences despite strong promotional and marketing campaigns.

For example, Dogville [+see also:
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film profile] by Lars Von Trier, only managed to attract some 97,000 filmgoers, It's All About Love [+see also:
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film profile] by Thomas Vinterberg and released in January failed to break the 50,000-mark and Skagerrak by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen only managed 40,000. The biggest domestic flop of the first half of 2003 was Nicolas Winding Refn’s Fear X (just 6,000 tickets sold).

(Translated from Italian)