Ditte Graeboel. She enters the house.
When I went to see this movie, I was expecting something like "Festen". A bit experimental and very serious movie.
This was the first film I had seen from the Dogma series and I didn't know quite what to expect. Mifune is actually a very moving and personal insight into the life styles of a small handfull of characters.
Mifune is a surprisingly easy film to watch, delightful in many respects and certainly original. The comedy is in many ways unique; nothing hits you in the cinema, but you still leave with a smile on your face.
With Mifunes sidste sang, Søren Kragh-Jakobsen continues the Danish Dogma group project (Idioterna, Festen) of providing us with original pictures from Denmark. We know the rules by now: camera on the shoulder, no added light, no added music, and all properties to be fond on location.
Søren Kragh Jacobsen has succeeded to make a liberating, lighthearted and entertaining film, that - unlike the other Dogmafilm (Festen and Idioterne) doesn't leave us disturbed and worried afterwards. The only thing Mifune leaves behind, is a simple smile (and not necessarily in the bad sense of the word).
Arguably the best of the films adhering to the Dogma 95 Manifesto, and the first to be shot on film rather than video, MIFUNE'S LAST SONG is a genuinely enjoyable film. Unpretentious and optimistic, MIFUNE is funny, affectionate and entertaining.
The third Dogme film, "Mifune" is the best film of the decade. Characters are nicely developed, and pictures are beautifully shot.
I didn't know much about this movie going in, but I got a very nice surprise. The Kresten plot -- a yuppie summoned home to deal with his redneck past by the death of his father -- could have been a dull family drama, but this movie was much better than that.