Danish Film festival in Chennai : Keepers of lost causes
Danish Film festival in Chennai : Keepers of lost causes During the last week, while browsing through my Newspaper Daily, the one particular advertisement that caught my attention repeatedly was a certain Danish Film festival that was taking place in Chennai. Strictly speaking, my knowledge about Nordic cinema was limited to Lars von Trier of the brilliant and moving ‘Dancer in the dark’ and Sweden’s Ingmar Bergman apart from prominent Swedes masquerading as actors such as Max Von Sydow, Stellan Skarsgard, and the ‘Rocky’ star as well as similarly faced Dolph Lundgren (I am strictly joking here as I really love them all). Barring this, I am not quite acquainted with the Rasmussens and Amundsens of World Cinema, to be honest. The French cultural organization Alliance Française together with the Royal Danish Embassy in New Delhi and the Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation, Chennai were organizing this 5 day event with screenings conducted in the locally famed ‘Edouard