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finished watching Border 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
En sjov og sær film med et twist til sidst. Jeg synes idéen er god, uden at eksekveringen sådan nogensinde rammer mig lige i hjertet.

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finished watching Woman at War 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
En lidt skør islandsk film om at kæmpe for det man tror på, med nogle få lidt surrealistiske træk. Jeg var ikke _blown away_ men jeg var godt underholdt.

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finished reading de 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
En rigtigt fin og (bevidst) fragmenteret bog om en ung pige med en syg mor, skrevet i en slags erinding. Det er klassisk Helle Helle, alt det der ikke tales om eller siges står tydeligt frem for læseren når man læser den ofte banale dialog der faktisk er skrevet. Jeg elsker det.

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finished watching The Children of Silver Street 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
To be honest, I fell asleep. But then it's not really FOR me, is it.

I really hate Danish children's films.

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finished reading Hvis der skulle komme et menneske forbi 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
Det er skørt, for det meste af bogen var jeg faktisk ikke specielt imponeret over den her. Det er en historie om en dreng i en dysfunktionel familie på Skivekanten, landmandsfar og ludomanmor og problemer i skolen, men alt er så gråt og råt og vælten hadefuldt rundt i mudderet at det næsten bliver en karrikatur med al den elendighed oveni elendighed. Kort sagt, så tror jeg ikke rigtigt på det.

Men - til allersidst, som hovedpersonen bliver ældre, sker der alligevel noget som gør at jeg er glad for at jeg læste den færdig, uden at jeg kan sætte en finger på hvad der præcist er. En smule håb for en bedre fremtid måske?

Jeg ved ikke om jeg kan anbefale den, men jeg er trods alt glad for at jeg læste den til ende.

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started watching PEN15 Season 1 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
Jeg er ikke særligt god til cringe comedy, men den her serie er faktisk rigtigt sjov og sympatisk. De to serieskabere er omkring 30, og har været bedste venner siden de var små. Nu genopfører de så scener fra deres eget liv omgivet af rigtige 13-årige, deres barndomshjem er opført som kulisser, og så videre.

Det lyder creepy og weird, men det er i virkeligheden bare et kærligt og ok realistisk blik på en tid vi nok alle har et ambivalent forhold til. Anbefalet.

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finished watching Final Hour 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
Et gensyn med en gyser fra min barndom, og et glædeligt gensyn. Det er ikke verdens bedste film, bevares - men den er stadig creepy og det er sjovt at se tilbage på 90'erne og de tidstypiske (stereo)typer de bruger til filmens persongalleri. Den får 3 stjerner for udførelsen og 1 stjerne for nostalgien.

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finished watching Time (Series 1) 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
Helt fantastisk miniserie, rørende, spændende, intens og fabelagtigt skrevet og eksekveret. Sean Bean er fantastisk, det samme er Stephen Graham, men det er de faktisk allesammen, der er ikke en eneste roller eller replik der rammer bare en smule skævt. Se den før din bankrådgiver.

Ekstra bonus er at man får lov at høre en masse dejligt scouse-engelsk 😉

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finished reading The Great Gatsby 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
Heard as an audiobook via Spotify and read by Scott Shepherd.

I'm not going to do a full review of this book, because - well - it's been done a hundred times before, but I will say that while I never could read it I was very very pleased with it as an audiobook. Something about the way Shepherd reads it just makes it a joy to listen to, not a slog to read, and you're left with a crystal clear sense of the ambience and attitudes and sentiments of 1920s New York - from the perspective of an observer on the outskirts of the life of the rich and famous.

We follow Nick Caroway, a midwestern WW1 veteran from a good family trying to make it as a "bondsman" or stock trader in New York, more because he needs a profession or an occupation than because he needs the money. He lives next to a huge mansion owned by a Mr Gatsby, a man who throws lavish parties but remains in the background in an almost shy manner.

Gatsby, it turns out, is in love with Nick's cousin Daisy - a wealthy socialite - but she's married to Tom, a worldly and boistrous old-money athlete. He is, in turn, involved with a the wife of his mechanic who he's provided with a furnished apartment in the city - an affair which is known to everyone, which doesn't seem to bother him one bit and certainly doesn't have any real consequences for him beyond Daisy sulking and pining for her old love, Gatsby. Meanwhile Nick, the narrator, is carrying on with Daisy's friend Jordan - a professional golfer and socialite of some fame.

We follow these main characters through lots of drunken parties, lazy afternoons with a drink in hand, hushed conversations, vague business opportunities, and fake laughs and dances. So it's in part a book about that - the glitter of the 1920s wealthy elite, both old money and new.

But really it's a book about money and what it buys you; the freedom to be careless. Careless with other people's lives, with their emotions, and of course careless with money itself. Fitzgerald is very clear about this - in one memorable passage Gatsby and Nick talk about Daisy's voice:

"Gatsby turned to me rigidly: "I can't say anything in his house, old sport.." "She's got an indiscreet voice,." I remarked. "It's full of - ." I hesitated. "Her voice is full of money,." he said suddenly. That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money - that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it. . . . high in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl..."

Recommended!

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finished reading Døgnkioskmennesket 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
A funny, strange little book which I feel was too short to really fully explore the themes in it.

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finished watching Moana 2 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
Not even close to having the same quality as the first one.

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finished reading Mondes en VF - Enfin chez moi ! - Niv. A2 - Livre + audios 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
En simpel fortælling holdt på A2-B1 niveau, som ikke helt fungerede for mig litterært. Det er natuligvis fint at jeg sproget et simpelt, men hvis historien er tilsvarende simpel og lettere banal begynder jeg at kede mig.

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finished watching The Animal Kingdom 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

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finished watching Severance Season 1 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

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finished watching Severance Season 2 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

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started watching A French Village Season 1 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
Ok underholdende historisk drama uden at være prangende. Minder mig lidt om Matador, i den forstand at jeg tror det er den Store Franske Fortælling om anden verdenskrig. Et godt backup-show.

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finished reading Jordboerne 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
Not really sure what to think of this, the prose does not excite me - even if the themes and the story is engaging. I struggle to connect with the main characters, and even to understand her, which is a shame. Maybe that's the point? Maybe I am too much of an earthling to get it? Maybe I am too far removed from Japanese cultural norms to understand how the main characters feel?

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finished watching The Forest 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
Watched this with French subtitles to practice my French. A pretty standard girls-gone-missing crime drama - but well written, acted, and executed. Recommended!

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finished watching Bad Sisters Season 2 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

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finished watching Triangle of Sadness 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
Probably my favourite Østlund-film so far. Witty, well paced, well acted, and relevant.

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started reading Jeg anerkender ikke længere jeres autoritet: Manifest

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finished reading Papa et autres nouvelles 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
Read this in French to practice my French - and it was easy to follow but with a lot more emotional depth than most of the other stuff directed at learners.

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finished watching The Square 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
I remember this as an enjoyable film, with excellent elements, but perhaps a bit less coherent than other Östlund-films. Claes Bang was of course excellent as he always is.

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finished reading Jeg anerkender ikke længere jeres autoritet: Manifest 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
En sårbar, søgende, vred, overtænkende, rørende, tankevækkende form for roman eller manifest. Jeg anbefaler den meget gerne, den sætter gang i tankerne, selvom den ikke er nem at få styr på eller klassificere.

Det der står tilbage er for mig ikke et politisk budskab, men en dybt personlig fortælling om Glenn Bechs liv og erfaring og indre liv.

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finished watching For All Mankind Season 1 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

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