Danish director Marianna Blicher graces the Glasgow film festival with her off-kilter tragi-comedy \u2018Miss Viborg\u2019, centred on Solvej, a 61- year old recluse who strikes up an unlikely friendship with her 17-year old neighbour Kate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the offset the film does an excellent job of setting up the strange world of Viborg, the small sleepy Danish town inhabited by an equally bizarre population. There is a colourful candy coating to the visuals coupled with a lush score, particularly a central accordion motif, which does so much to conjure its unique tone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A lot of the strangeness stems from the central friendship between the two women. Both suffer from eating disorders, Solvej overeats, Kate under eats. Both are victims of a particular social circumstance that has forced them to remain in a council flat in this small sparsely populated town, Kate relies on benefits whilst Solvej sells her prescribe pain medication, dishing it out on her mobility scooter. Both yearn for a larger world outside of Viborg, Solvej is saving up to get a timeshare in Spain whilst Kate dreams of reuniting with her estrange father in Frankfurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “From the offset the film does an excellent job of setting up the strange world of Viborg, the small sleepy Danish town inhabited by an equally bizarre population.”<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n The central performance from Ragnhild Kaasgaard as Solvej is wonderful. She does some really good hobbling acting, a strange compliment I know, and it is refreshing to see a film about an overweight older woman that is not presenting her as pathetic or solely victimising her (Darren Aronofsky take note). The film also does a great job at communicating a lot of character through very small, often strange, social interactions, with a particular moment where Solvej goes on a date with an older trucker in the town playing out wonderfully. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The film does, however, have some glaring issues. Most of which stems from the final act that sort of falls apart rather quickly and resulting in a final moment of unearned sincerity. There is also a couple bits of colour correcting that looks terrible with shots not matching at all. Worst of all theres a soulful slow rendition of 500 miles by The Proclaimers that I wish I could have seen in a Glasgow audience just to feel the tangible second hand embarrassment. Despite these glaring issues Miss Viborg remains oddball enough to keep you on side, if not slightly warily. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Danish director Marianna Blicher graces the Glasgow film festival with her off-kilter tragi-comedy \u2018Miss Viborg\u2019, centred on Solvej, a 61- year old recluse who strikes up an unlikely friendship with her 17-year old neighbour Kate. From the offset the film does an excellent job of setting up the strange world of Viborg, the small sleepy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.splatzine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Miss-Viborg.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splatzine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splatzine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splatzine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splatzine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splatzine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.splatzine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/www.splatzine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splatzine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splatzine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splatzine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splatzine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}