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The Riot Club (2014) by Lone Scherfig

Book title:A Memoir of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland (1871) by George Steinman; two volumes (the 3rd and the 4th) of The Second World War by Winston Churchill; Concise Dictionary of National Biography, Complete to 1921;Out of the Woods: The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France (1997) by Nancy Canepa

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Their Finest (Lone Scherfig, 2016).

The Riot Club - Lone Scherfig (2014)

based on “The riot club” by Laura Wade

One Day (2011) dir. by Lone Scherfig.

A pretty acceptable romantic drama.

6.0

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Directed by Lone Scherfig
Screenplay by Lone Scherfig and Thomas Anders Jensen
Denmark / UK, 2002

Watched on 4th February 2014
First viewing

This was recommended and lent to me by a friend, who described it as darkly funny. And it is, but not all of the humour worked for me I’m afraid. The blurb on the back of the box describes the film as “life-affirming”, which is wasn’t particularly to me.

That said, the performances were good, especially the wonderful Shirley Henderson. But the film didn’t quite do it for me. I just came away thinking, “Well, it’s no Harold and Maude, is it?”