MIFUNE European Film Showcase

The morning after Kresten’s wedding, he receives word of his father’s death, complicating the fact that he has already lied about having no living relatives. Unwilling to reveal his povertystricken past to his new wife, Kresten returns alone to his father’s dilapidated farm, where he arranges his father’s funeral while caring for Rud, his mentally handicapped brother. When Kresten hires Liva to help care for Rud, his life is further complicated. Like Kresten, the beautiful Liva is also living a lie. After working as a call girl to keep her rebellious brother in school, Liva is now running from her pimp and a series of threatening phone calls. With his highly suspicious wife en route, Rud in the garden, old enemies in the farmyard and a gorgeous woman in his bedroom, Kresten’s problems are just beginning.

The third film from the Danish DOGMA collective (Thomas Vinterberg’s THE CELEBRATION, Lars Von Trier’s THE IDIOTS), MIFUNE justifiably created a sensation at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, winning the Silver Bear.