Madsen makes the most of his budget, and he keeps pulling his camera back for long, visually sumptuous overhead shots.
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11/13/09
Flame & Citron (2008)
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Reviews Counted:60
Fresh:51
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: The true story of the Danish resistance in WW2, though lengthy and sprawling, is gripping and competently made.
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: In this thriller set in World War II-era Copenhagen, two men put everything on the line in their fight against the Nazis. Bent Faurschou-Hviid, aka Flame (Thure Lindhardt, INTO THE WILD), is young... [More]
Starring: Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Peter Mygind
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Reviews for Flame & Citron
A drop-dead gorgeous period noir, rife with paranoia, femmes fatales, and good men inexorably sinking into the bloody mire and opaque texture of life (and death) during wartime.
11/13/09
Unfortunately, although it was supposedly inspired by the morally conflicted French Resistance masterpiece Army of Shadows, Flame fizzles more than it flames.
11/06/09
To its credit, the film gives full weight to the confusion and ambivalence of war; the struggle for liberation from tyranny rarely looks so dubious.
11/05/09
A suspenseful, often riverting drama of World War II resistance that combines old-fashioned virtues of craft and style with a more modern sense of nuance and complexity.
10/31/09
[An] atypical and moody noir war film.
09/09/09
This film is based on a true story that director Ole Christian Madsen feels must be told with earnest noir and war-movie clichés.
09/03/09
...a fascinating dual character study lodged within a somewhat stodgy film.
08/30/09
The filmmakers do a terrific job in placing us in 1944 Copenhagen under Nazi rule.
08/30/09
"Flame and Citron" is a spine-tingling war drama with superb acting.
08/25/09
The film evolves into a mystery about who the two men can trust, besides each other, and the results are often nail-biting.
08/25/09
Flame & Citron examines the moral shadings of the Danish resistance during World War II without turning into a revisionist bore.
08/21/09
Maintains a high level of suspense for more than two hours.
08/20/09
Flame & Citron, based on the lives of two actual Resistance heroes, is a taut, handsome production -- the most expensive Danish film to date -- and it looks like a film noir, as indeed the costumes, cars, guns and fugitives force it to.
08/20/09
Top CriticA very well-made and engrossing...cinematic tribute to two Danish freedom fighters
08/15/09
A deeply involving look at people living permanently on the knife-edge of danger.
08/14/09
Top Critic...shocking...constant tension...great performances by Mikkelsen, Lindhardt, and Stengade. This captures what it really must have been like in the Resistance.
08/14/09
A satisfying thriller interestingly complicated by its study of character and compromise.
08/07/09
The action scenes are well-staged and the performances are aces.
08/07/09
Throughout this compelling film, the assassins want to believe they're doing righteous work: they're fighting Nazi occupation forces, after all.
08/06/09
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