This Charming Man
A man attends Danish class by mistake, creating hilariously awkward scenarios while subtly addressing xenophobia; perfect for fans of nuanced comedies.
Genres: Comedy
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Lars applies for job training, but his papers are mixed with an immigrant and he's sent instead to Danish class. When he learns that the attractive teacher, Ida, will lose her job if the immigrant isn't in attendance, he decides to go through with the erroneous assignment posing as the other guy. The short film is a comedy of errors, but works in some poignant and scathing observations about xenophobia.
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When there’s a mix up at the job centre, “Lars” (Martin Buch) finds himself accidentally given the ID of a Pakistani immigrant to Denmark, and assigned compulsory Danish lessons. Oddly enough, he is already quite fluent in his native language but no amount of calling is going to get him excused from his course. Then he discovers that his school friend “Ida” (Camilla Bendix) - whom he barely remembers - is the teacher and if he doesn’t show up, then her work will get canned and she fired. Keen to be helpful, he dons a black wig and moustache and turns up pretending to be “El-Hassan”. Now with a foot in both camps, he is better able to experience some of the difficulties faced by immigrants who are routinely disparagingly referred to and not entirely welcome - especially in a job market where the local population are also looking for work. It is over-written to exaggerate a message that also takes a ping at the frustrations of bureaucracy and red tape, but at half an hour long it labours those points and milks the humour a bit too much as a little “Carry On” style romance creeps in. Buch does fine, though, and it's worth a watch but it’s curious that for an Oscar winner it didn’t track at all on the awards circuits in Europe - not even at home.
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