Den skaldede frisør (Love is All You Need)
Summer 2013 Features series
Sunday, July 14, 2013 at 8:00pm
Acadia Cinema's Al Whittle Theatre
450 Main Street, Wolfville, NS
Directed by Susanne Bier
Screenplay by Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring Molly Blixt Egelind, Trine Dyrholm, and Pierce Brosnan
Rated 14A ·
1h 56m
/ Denmark
English and Danish
Den skaldede frisør (Love is All You Need)
Pierce Brosnan stars in this cross-cultural romantic comedy from Academy Award winning Danish director Susanne Bier (In a Better World, After the Wedding).
Returning from her final, successful chemotherapy treatment, Ida (Trine Dyrholm, In a Better World, The Celebration) arrives home only to find her boorish husband Leif (Kim Bodnia, In a Better World, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen) in a compromising position with a ditzy co-worker (Christiane Schaumburg-Müller). Stricken, she takes off to Sorrento alone to attend the wedding of her daughter Astrid (Molly Blixt Egelind) to Patrick (Sebastian Jessen) in a beautiful
Italian villa, where the lemon groves and cypress trees form the perfect backdrop for a young couple who appear to be blissfully in love.
Unexpectedly, Leif arrives with his new bimbo paramour in tow, leading Ida to give her husband a piece of her mind — and a face full of champagne. This display does little to impress Patrick’s no-nonsense father Philip (Brosnan, The Ghost Writer, Married Life), a dashing but brooding widower who seems less than pleased with his life, his son, and his soon-to-be in-laws. When the young couple’s future happiness is suddenly jeopardized, Ida and Philip are brought together to try to set things right — and find that life might have a second chance in store for them as well.
Bier’s films have always been marked by their outstanding ensemble casts, and Love Is All You Need is no exception. Dyrholm invests Ida with a nervous energy (she is constantly adjusting her post-chemo wig) as well as warmth and humour. Brosnan delivers a delightful straight-man performance as the staid Phillip, while Paprika Steen is simply uproarious as Philip’s lustful sister-in-law. Hilarious, touching and inspiring, Love Is All You Need is a rousing toast to those who have the courage to transform their lives.
“Love is All You Need has been made for an audience rarely catered for by the film industry: intelligent adults who enjoy perceptive and good-hearted drama.” (Robbie Collin, The Telegraph)