Dear Wendy
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Wed 28 September 2005 // 20:00
Thomas Vinterberg / 2005 / Denmark-UK / 105 mins / Cert 15
(Wed 28th / 8pm / £2)
A story about Dick, a young loner who lives in the poor mining town of Estherslope. When he happens upon a small handgun one day, he finds himself strangely drawn to it, despite his fervent pacifist views. Together with his newfound partner he soon convinces the other young outcasts in the town to join him in a secret club he calls The Dandies, a club based on the principals of pacifism and guns. Despite their firm belief in the most important Dandy rule of all - never draw your weapons - they soon find themselves in a predicament where they realise that rules are made to be broken.
A product of the original signatories of the Dogme 95 manifesto (von Trier scripting, Vinterberg directing) the film is a bold parable of gun culture and modern American life, much in the same vein as Von Trier's 'Dogville' and 'Dancer in the Dark', given a more polished sheen by Vinterberg's direction and a star turn from Billy Elliot himself, Jamie Bell.
(Wed 28th / 8pm / £2)
A story about Dick, a young loner who lives in the poor mining town of Estherslope. When he happens upon a small handgun one day, he finds himself strangely drawn to it, despite his fervent pacifist views. Together with his newfound partner he soon convinces the other young outcasts in the town to join him in a secret club he calls The Dandies, a club based on the principals of pacifism and guns. Despite their firm belief in the most important Dandy rule of all - never draw your weapons - they soon find themselves in a predicament where they realise that rules are made to be broken.
A product of the original signatories of the Dogme 95 manifesto (von Trier scripting, Vinterberg directing) the film is a bold parable of gun culture and modern American life, much in the same vein as Von Trier's 'Dogville' and 'Dancer in the Dark', given a more polished sheen by Vinterberg's direction and a star turn from Billy Elliot himself, Jamie Bell.