Beginnings
Life is full of unexpected twists. Ane and Thomas (Trine Dyrholm and David Dencik at the top of their craft) must redefine the parameters of their relationship when, just as they are about to finalize their divorce and tell their two daughters, she suffers a stroke.
Producer Eva Jakobsen scheduled to attend.
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From the first few minutes, Beginnings feels like the end of something once happy. Marine biologist Ane (Trine Dyrholm) and her guidance counselor husband Thomas (David Dencik) are preparing to go their separate ways. He plans to move in with his longtime mistress and she wants to sell the house, but they bitterly disagree on when to break the news to their two children. Before they can resolve the impasse, calamity strikes when Ane suffers a stroke that paralyzes one side of her body. Thomas delays his departure to care for Ane as she recovers, much to her ambivalent feelings of annoyance, frustration, and unspoken gratitude. Temperatures rise higher when their gymnast daughter Clara (Bjørk Storm, in her striking screen debut) discovers her father’s infidelity, ramping up the family’s aggressions—both passive and overt. Thomas and Ane are finally forced to make a difficult decision whether to rekindle their residual love or make a clean break and start over. Through scenes of avid diver Ane struggling to re-learn how to swim laps and Clara wobbling in her balance-beam routines, director Jeanette Nordahl artfully depicts a troubled family adrift in an emotional limbo of their own making.
—Randy Woods
- Original Language Title: Begyndelser
- Director: Jeanette Nordahl
- Principal Cast: Trine Dyrholm, David Dencik, Bjørk Storm, Luna Svelmøe
- Premiere Status: North American
- Country: Denmark, Sweden, Belgium
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 96 min.
- Producer: Eva Jakobsen, Mikkel Jersin, Katrin Pors
- Screenplay: Rasmus Birch, Jeanette Nordahl
- Cinematographers: Shadi Chabaan
- Editors: Rasmus Gitz
- Music: Nathan Larsson
- Website: Official Film Website
- Filmography: Wildland (2020)
- Language: Danish
- Has Subtitles: Yes
- Format: DCP
- International Sales: ReInvent Studios