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Show all (8)Robert (Jakob Cedergren) -- a timid Copenhagen city policeman -- is reassigned to protect and serve in a sleepy town in rural Denmark. But Robert struggles to maintain order in his new jurisdiction, a lawless place where the only rules are those dictated -- and enforced -- by local thug and serial wife-beater Jorgen (Kim Bodnia). As the indifferent townspeople dismiss Robert's laughable attempts at police work, he nurses a fixation with Jorgen's sexpot spouse, Ingerlise (Lene Maria Christensen).
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Henrik Ruben Genz's diabolical comedy "Terribly Happy" assures us that yes, something is definitely rotten in the state of Denmark, or least in the rural Danish county of South Jutland. From the moment the camera surveys the dirty brick buildings in Skarrild, a desolate backwater in the county's soggy flatlands, you sense that this is a village of the damned. (Full review)