Fear Me Not

Den du Frygter

(Denmark, 2008, 95 mins)

digital video

Wisconsin Premiere

writer: Kristian Levring, Anders Thomas Jensen
director of photography: Jens Schlosser
editor: Pernille Bech Christensen
sound engineer: Mick Raaschou
production designer: Jette Lehmann
producer: Sisse Graum Jørgensen
production company: Zentropa Productions
cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Lars Brygmann, Bjarne Henriksen, Emma Sehsted Høeg, Paprika Steen, Stine Stengade, Bodil Udsen

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Mikael and Sigrid are a successful married couple, with a fantastic house on a lake and a lovely teenage daughter. Mikael’s a tightly wound workaholic, and can’t quite figure out how to relax. He takes up rowing on the lake with his brother-in-law Frederik a doctor managing the trials of a new experimental drug. Mikael signs up to participate in the trial, and the results are soon evident. He feels terrific. He also withdraws a little, confusing his family who don’t quite recognize him. Escalating the psychological tension is the uncertainty about whether the drugs are causing changes in Mikael’s behavior, or whether he just thinks that they are having an effect on him. Either way, it’s maddening. Fear Me Not marks the sixth year in a row that the Wisconsin Film Festival has presented a film written by Danish screenwriter/director Anders Thomas Jensen. Starting with The Green Butchers in 2004, with Anders himself attended the Festival, audiences have enjoyed his dark stories. Fear Me Not stars Ulrich Thompson, a remarkable and versatile actor who also starred in two of our Audience Award-winning films, Brothers and Adam’s Apples (both also written by Jensen). It’s a small country, but they make big movies.

Sponsored By:

UW Center for European Studies

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