This far behind, at least one had to slip through the cracks...

#30: Terribly Happy

This 2008 Danish (Czech?) film has been compared to Blood Simple, The White Ribbon, an (any?) Eastwood western, and films by David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock. And this is just the NYT review. What is to be made of a film that apparently evokes films from so may genres and across so much time? Either it is so original that it can be described only via analogy or it is a pastiche of influences: Quentin Jerome Tarantino in the land of the midnight sun!

My own notes on this film suggest that I was extraordinarily stoned when I watched it. I do not believe that I was. All I can really make out now is:

• Blood Simple?
• Everybody knows everything as it happens
• Full embrce of community--knows his secrets

I have no idea what any of this means. Just go see the film before the remake comes out and we'll be compelled to compare it to all of the other remakes in the history of film--It's like if in Jaws II the shark had been played by Robert De Niro!!!