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It's 1948 and 63-year-old "Out of Africa" author Karen Blixen (pen name: Isak Dinesen) is a lonely literary sensation -- until she meets talented 30-year-old poet Thorkild Bjørnvig. She promises him stardom if he will obey her unconditionally. From director Bille August (PELLE THE CONQUEROR) comes this sterling adaptation of Bjørnvig's bestselling memoir.
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A little too straightforward and bland... But it's an admirable film.
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An interesting, impeccably groomed period piece...
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A fascinating footnote to the story of Isak Dinesen and the impossible standards that defined her accomplishments and failures.
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Neumann doesn't mine the complex possibilities and dramatic layers that Blixen, the tyrannical and temperamental writer, was known to possess. Something similar also happens with the film itself, too contained in its preciousness and academic formality.
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An attractive film even though after two hours it doesn't fulfill its promise to shed light on one episode of Karen Blixen's life. [Full review in Spanish]
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The film is masterful in exploring the kinetic energy between its leads, even in the most subdued scenes. It’s a slow burn, but one feels the heat.
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Knockout job by Birthe Neumann- whoa. Right up there with Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. A wringer of a benefactor and her poor sod of a poet. Great film.
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It's 1948 and 63-year-old "Out of Africa" author Karen Blixen (pen name: Isak Dinesen) is a lonely literary sensation -- until she meets talented 30-year-old poet Thorkild Bjørnvig. She promises him stardom if he will obey her unconditionally. From director Bille August (PELLE THE CONQUEROR) comes this sterling adaptation of Bjørnvig's bestselling memoir.
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Bille August
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Danish
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 11, 2022, Limited
Runtime
1h 40m
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Aged 63 Karen Blixen is at the pinnacle of her fame and next in line to win the Nobel Prize for literature. It has been 17 years since she gave up her famous African adventure only to return to Denmark in ruins. Devastated by syphilis and having lost the love of her life she has reinvented herself as a literary sensation. She is an isolated genius, however, until the day she lays eyes on a handsome 30 year old poet. She promises him literary stardom if he in return will obey her unconditionally - even at the cost of him losing everything else in his life. The film is a heart-wrenching story of a sorcerer and her apprentice, about how far you will go for love and art.
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The director, Bille August, is the father of actress Asta Kamma August, who plays the character of Benedicte Jensen in this movie. Her mother is actress Pernilla August, who plays Anakin Skywalkers mother Shmi Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008).
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powerful and well written
I see loads of films, esp intl films...this one kept me engaged moment by moment. Suspenseful and compelling. Some fabulous dialogue/writing, wrote some of the quotes down for later. Thus, inspiring for my own introspection. If you enjoy psychology and insight, this one hits the bell. Very good!!
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‘The Pact’ is a Riveting Homage to a Unique Literary Sensation
In the film 'Out of Africa', the Baroness Karen von Blixen was played memorably by Meryl Streep. There is no such glamor here. Birthe Neumann's Baronness is regal, famous, and wise—but desperately lonely.
By Rex Reed • 02/17/22 5:38pm
Birthe Neumann plays literary sensation Baroness Karen von Blixen. Rolf Konow/Juno Films
From Denmark, The Pact is a dour, sobering portrait of literary sensation Baroness Karen von Blixen at age 63, after she lost both her beloved farm in Africa and her lover, adventurer Denys Finch Hatton, in a plane crash. In the cherished film Out of Africa, they were played memorably by Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. No such glamor here. The Baroness is played, still coldly beautiful but ravaged with syphilis, by the distinguished Danish actress Birthe Neumann, regal, famous and wise but desperately lonely. The film is about her final years and her unrequited love for a promising young poet who gave her false hope for romantic years ahead, then deeply disappointed her by turning out to be alarmingly…conventional.
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THE PACT ★★★
(3/4 stars)
Directed by: Bille August
Starring: Birthe Neumann, Simon Bennebjerg
Running time: 1 hour, 40 mins.
Directed by critical darling Bille August (Pelle the Counqueror) this well-made cerebral biopic is set in the year 1948—the Nazis have left the Danes to their own brand of postwar nobility, and the Baroness has bathed in world-wide success after the publication of her autobiography, Out of Africa, written under the pen name Isak Dinesen. Comfortable, revered, her place secured in both literature and popular culture, the Baroness lives out her days publicly in her remote, lavishly appointed country mansion Rungstedlund, giving dinner parties and interviews, but privately writhing in crippling pain from both her syphilis and the excruciating mercury poisoning she suffers from its punishing medications. Into her unhappy, isolated life enters a handsome, charming, and talented writer, three decades younger, named Thorkild Bjornvig (played by Simon Bennebjerg). Thorkild’s vulnerability and long, lanky boyish appeal quickly win over the Baroness, who offers him guidance, financial support, and quiet, inspired living quarters at Rungstedlund to grow and expand as a poet. The situation would be idyllic even if it remained sexually unconsummated, but for one major snafu: Thorkild is married. For his wife, a dull librarian, the Baroness has scant tolerance. But for Thorkild, true love for the woman he married remains unshaken. To protect herself from heartbreak and still guarantee her young protege’s personal affection and professional dependence, she forces him to make a pact—total loyalty, financially and creatively, in exchange for his promise to trust her unconditionally. The resulting passion works both ways, although the Baroness struggles to accept his emotional distance.
When Thorkild suffers a concussion from a fall, his mentor insists he move in permanently so she can look after him in luxury. Torn between the privileged life at Rungstedlund that feeds his secret ambition for career success and a genuine love for his wife and child, he falls victim to the celebrated Isak Dinesen sarcasm whenever he tries to go home to his family. She patronizes him. She insults him. She calls his longing for a stable home life “meatball deficiency, the cause of your inefficiency…or is an evening in the company of mediocrity supposed to lift you up?” When he proclaims marriage and family a normal pursuit, even for a poet, that requires no explanation, she lashes out with “Wife! You, who read Nietzsche, Goethe, Rilke…can you quote me when was the last time you read that word in a work of art? Can you quote me even one poem that includes the word wife?”
She improves his life, but severely impacts it, too, sending him to Bonn for a literary position, then encouraging him to have an affair with a close friend. It ends badly for them both. She taught him the value of genuine artistic freedom, but not until he went home to his wife did he learn the more important value of personal inner peace. Breaking the pact and saying goodbye is the most touching part of the story. Years later, Thorkild finally earns his own critical praise by publishing a memoir about his years with Isak Dinesen called The Pact, from which this film is adapted. It’s not a film for every taste, the screenplay by Christian Torpe moves so slowly that it often comes to a complete standstill, but it remains a fascinating footnote to the story of Isak Dinesen and the impossible standards that defined her accomplishments and failures. A riveting homage to an extraordinary force as dynamic as she was unique.
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2022-08-07 06:00
The pact
Carlos Bonfil Reading time: 4 min.
Birthe Neumann and Simon Bennebjerg, as Karen Blixen and Thorkild Bjornvig, in a still from The Pact, by Bille August.
La Jornada newspaper,
Sunday, August 7, 2022, p. 9a
A Faustian pact. In 1948, after a long stay in Africa, Danish writer Karen Blixen (literary pseudonym Isak Denisen), author of Out of Africa ( 1937 novel adapted for the screen by Sydney Pollack in 1985), meets 29-year-old poet Thorkild Bjornvig (Simon Bennebjerg). What begins as a timid approach by the promising and shy writer to the already established 63-year-old novelist gradually turns into a toxic relationship of intellectual and emotional dependence in which Bjornvig stands to lose. Not only does the writer demand complete moral submission to her imperious will, offering him in exchange the shortest routes to rapid artistic promotion in the world of Danish letters, but also the temporary separation from his young wife Grete (Nanna Skaarup Voss) and his small son. The argument for accepting this sacrifice will be Blixen's proposal of a moral pact that will guarantee a privileged spiritual communication between the two, far removed from the conventions of a married life that would supposedly undermine the young artist's creative impulse. No work of art of great value has emerged from the bosom of a bourgeois domesticity and "the word wife does not figure in any poem," says his new mentor. This story of moral surrender and emotional vampirism will be told by Thorkild Bjornvig himself in The Pact (Pagten, 1974), his literary version of the events, a short story published 12 years after Karen Blixen's death.
Danish filmmaker Bille August, twice winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or, first for Pelle the Conqueror (1988), then for The Best Intentions (1992), in collaboration with Ingmar Bergman, responsible for the screenplay, now proposes in The Pact (2021), an incursion into the complex personality of the author of Winter's Tales (1942), a woman of calculating intelligence and imperious character who lives sheltered in her mansion in Rungstadlund, north of Copenhagen, far from literary mundanity, partly to keep secret a long, devastating venereal disease, then incurable, that tormented her all her life. The poet Bjornvig arrives at that place and becomes a devoted accomplice to the romantic-literary fantasies of this mature woman, leaving aside everything that until then had represented her domestic and emotional security. Among the lessons of his manipulative tutor is the libertine advice to find a young lover in order to broaden his mind and avoid the temptation of mediocrity. But when this finally happens and the poet falls in love with the young Benedicte (Asta Kamma August), the surprisingly incautious initiator of the gallant arts is very upset. It should be noted here that the performance of actress Birthe Neumann as Karen Blixen does not seem to take full advantage of all the dramatic possibilities and nuances suggested by the real, much more complex character of the temperamental and tyrannical writer. Something similar happens with the film itself, contained in its precious aesthetics and its academic formalism.
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The Best Intentions – a far superior film of hers – captivated with its sombre tone and its disenchanted vision of passionate love, with a Bergmanesque touch that heightened the complexity of the subject in the story. The Pact, on the other hand, is directed from its conception towards a conventional treatment that the outcome amply confirms. The problem is not the original story told, fascinating in itself, but the conventional and flat way in which the screenwriter Christian Torpe adapts it for the screen. By way of comparison, it is worth noting about a documentary, still pending to arrive in Mexico, that tells a similar story in a formidable way. It is I Want to Talk About Duras (2021), by the French director Claire Simon. In it, Yann Andréa, a young film buff, begins correspondence with Marguerite Duras, his admired author, and agrees to live by her side as a student and lover for 16 years, regardless of the generational gap of 38 years that separated him and the writer. It is a power relationship full of frustrations and emotional and sexual gratifications, of authoritarian abuse and voluntary submission, also based on real events, and which in a laconic and at the same time intense way, appears as the dark mirror of the sentimental confusion that young Bjornvig experiences alongside his castrating teacher.
It will be shown in room 1 of the Cineteca Nacional at 3:30 p.m.
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The pact
Carlos Bonfil Reading time: 4 min.
Birthe Neumann and Simon Bennebjerg, as Karen Blixen and Thorkild Bjornvig, in a still from The Pact, by Bille August.
La Jornada newspaper,
Sunday, August 7, 2022, p. 9a
A Faustian pact. In 1948, after a long stay in Africa, Danish writer Karen Blixen (literary pseudonym Isak Denisen), author of Out of Africa ( 1937 novel adapted for the screen by Sydney Pollack in 1985), meets 29-year-old poet Thorkild Bjornvig (Simon Bennebjerg). What begins as a timid approach by the promising and shy writer to the already established 63-year-old novelist gradually turns into a toxic relationship of intellectual and emotional dependence in which Bjornvig stands to lose. Not only does the writer demand complete moral submission to her imperious will, offering him in exchange the shortest routes to rapid artistic promotion in the world of Danish letters, but also the temporary separation from his young wife Grete (Nanna Skaarup Voss) and his small son. The argument for accepting this sacrifice will be Blixen's proposal of a moral pact that will guarantee a privileged spiritual communication between the two, far removed from the conventions of a married life that would supposedly undermine the young artist's creative impulse. No work of art of great value has emerged from the bosom of a bourgeois domesticity and "the word wife does not figure in any poem," says his new mentor. This story of moral surrender and emotional vampirism will be told by Thorkild Bjornvig himself in The Pact (Pagten, 1974), his literary version of the events, a short story published 12 years after Karen Blixen's death.
Danish filmmaker Bille August, twice winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or, first for Pelle the Conqueror (1988), then for The Best Intentions (1992), in collaboration with Ingmar Bergman, responsible for the screenplay, now proposes in The Pact (2021), an incursion into the complex personality of the author of Winter's Tales (1942), a woman of calculating intelligence and imperious character who lives sheltered in her mansion in Rungstadlund, north of Copenhagen, far from literary mundanity, partly to keep secret a long, devastating venereal disease, then incurable, that tormented her all her life. The poet Bjornvig arrives at that place and becomes a devoted accomplice to the romantic-literary fantasies of this mature woman, leaving aside everything that until then had represented her domestic and emotional security. Among the lessons of his manipulative tutor is the libertine advice to find a young lover in order to broaden his mind and avoid the temptation of mediocrity. But when this finally happens and the poet falls in love with the young Benedicte (Asta Kamma August), the surprisingly incautious initiator of the gallant arts is very upset. It should be noted here that the performance of actress Birthe Neumann as Karen Blixen does not seem to take full advantage of all the dramatic possibilities and nuances suggested by the real, much more complex character of the temperamental and tyrannical writer. Something similar happens with the film itself, contained in its precious aesthetics and its academic formalism.
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The Best Intentions – a far superior film of hers – captivated with its sombre tone and its disenchanted vision of passionate love, with a Bergmanesque touch that heightened the complexity of the subject in the story. The Pact, on the other hand, is directed from its conception towards a conventional treatment that the outcome amply confirms. The problem is not the original story told, fascinating in itself, but the conventional and flat way in which the screenwriter Christian Torpe adapts it for the screen. By way of comparison, it is worth noting about a documentary, still pending to arrive in Mexico, that tells a similar story in a formidable way. It is I Want to Talk About Duras (2021), by the French director Claire Simon. In it, Yann Andréa, a young film buff, begins correspondence with Marguerite Duras, his admired author, and agrees to live by her side as a student and lover for 16 years, regardless of the generational gap of 38 years that separated him and the writer. It is a power relationship full of frustrations and emotional and sexual gratifications, of authoritarian abuse and voluntary submission, also based on real events, and which in a laconic and at the same time intense way, appears as the dark mirror of the sentimental confusion that young Bjornvig experiences alongside his castrating teacher.
It will be shown in room 1 of the Cineteca Nacional at 3:30 p.m.
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‘The Pact’ Review: A Faustian Bargain
When a baroness summons a young poet to her estate and suggests they make a deal, he should have hightailed it back down the road.
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In “The Pact,” Thorkild Bjornvig (Simon Bennebjerg) is an aspiring poet and the author Karen Blixen (Birthe Neumann) is his mischievous mentor.Credit...Rolf Konow/Juno FilmsBy Lisa Kennedy
Feb. 10, 2022
The PactDirected by Bille AugustBiography, Drama1h 55mFind Tickets
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Is there no equivalent to the phrase “If it looks too good to be true, it is” in Danish? Because when a baroness in “The Pact” summons a young poet to her estate north of Copenhagen and suggests they make a bargain, he should have hightailed it back down the road to his modest home, his kind wife and their towheaded toddler. But he doesn’t.
Even when Baroness Karen Blixen (Birthe Neumann) — best known as the author of “Out of Africa,” and under her pen name, Isak Dinesen — warns the young poet Thorkild Bjornvig (Simon Bennebjerg) to run if she exhibits any bouts of megalomania, he doesn’t take the hint. The poet wants the greatness the famous author guarantees him if he puts absolute trust in her.
An award winner in Denmark, this well-acted drama about the price of literary ambition is directed by Bille August and based on Bjornvig’s 1974 memoir, which was later translated into English as “The Pact: My Friendship With Isak Dinesen.” At the start of the friendship, the baroness has been out of Africa more than 15 years, though the family manor, Rungstedlund, has plenty of artifacts from her time in Kenya.
Neumann’s baroness is grandiose and transfixing (as are Anne-Dorthe Eskildsen’s handsome costumes). Nanna Skaarup Voss as Grete Bjornvig and Asta Kamma August as Benedicte Jensen, Thorkild Bjornvig’s possible love interest, offer soft counterpoints to Blixen’s patrician aura. Yet there’s a cloying whiff of the unreliable protagonist here: Thorkild Bjornvig is too often accidentally a louse. It is a nice touch that the person with the most sympathy for this Faustian she-devil turns out not to be the poet.
The Pact
Not rated. In Danish, with subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 55 minutes. In theaters.
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DirectorBille August
WriterChristian Torpe
StarsBirthe Neumann, Simon Bennebjerg, Nanna Skaarup Voss, Asta Kamma August, Anders Heinrichsen
Running Time1h 55m
GenresBiography, Drama
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Review: ‘The Pact’
A Long Poetic Drama That Taps Into the Eccentric World Of Danish Author Karen Blixen
By Jen Pourreza
-February 11, 2022
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The Pact is a poetic drama film that’s based on the relationship between authors 63-year-old Nobel Prize winner Karen Blixen (Birthe Neumann) and Thorkild Bjornvig (Simon Bennebjerg). Karen Blixen is the well renowned writer of “Out of Africa” (under the pen name Isak Dinesen) who’s memoir novel reflects the 17 years she lived in British East Africa, AKA Kenya.
Review: ‘The Pact’
A Long Poetic Drama That Taps Into the Eccentric World Of Danish Author Karen Blixen
By Jen Pourreza
-February 11, 2022
The Pact is a poetic drama film that’s based on the relationship between authors 63-year-old Nobel Prize winner Karen Blixen (Birthe Neumann) and Thorkild Bjornvig (Simon Bennebjerg). Karen Blixen is the well renowned writer of “Out of Africa” (under the pen name Isak Dinesen) who’s memoir novel reflects the 17 years she lived in British East Africa, AKA Kenya.
Her book first published in 1937 and recounts her experiences of losing love and the plantation she adored as home. Having become a literary sensation in her older years, Blixen who’s unfortunately devastated by syphilis and grief, struggles with her mental and physical health. Blixen later admits in the film that her physical pain has escalated because of being prescribed mercury pills to remedy her syphilis which in turn worsened her health. Desperate and lonely, Blixen returns to her family estate in Rungstedlund, Denmark where she soon calls upon young poet Thorkild Bjornvig (Bennebjerg). Blixen believes that Thorkild could have the potential to be a phenomenal writer especially, with her help but it could be more trouble than it’s worth.
It’s 1948 and 63-year-old Out of Africa author Karen Blixen (Neumann) has invited 30-year-old poet Thorkild Bjørnvig (Bennebjerg) to stay at her family estate to mentor him. She offers to teach him everything she knows and promises stardom as long as he will obey her unconditionally. A pact that once made begins to weigh heavily and with the aid of Blixen, driving a wedge between Bjornvig and his wife Grete (Nanna Skaarup Voss). Blixen firmly believes that in order for Bjornvig to be a great writer, he must separate himself from his marriage and son and indulge in worldly adventurous while having a healthy sexual apetite. Blixen goes as far as setting Bjornvig in the path of his financial investor’s wife, Benedicte (Asta August). Blixen’s simple game of manipulation backfires when Bjornvig and Benedicte actually fall in love with each other. Blixen’s demands become more and more pernicious and it eventually takes a toll in the lives of the people she’s manipulated and hurt. Despite the desire for the career he wants, Thorkild must choose between Blixen’s promise of fame or his family.
From director Bille August (Pelle the Conqueror) comes this sterling adaptation of Bjørnvig’s bestselling memoir. The Pact is the Official Selection of the 2022 Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Official Selection of the 2021 AFI European Union Films Showcase. Bennebjerg and Neumann have incredible chemistry throughout this film. Despite the age gap between the two, they were able to bring the connection of which their characters are entangled and portray themselves beautifully and with little dialogue. She spoke with such poise and elegant conviction while Bennebjerg grew into a trustworthy and admirable man who cares deeply for his priorities. Their time together proved to be an eccentric and intense connection of two people who were looking to fulfill their desires but at the unfortunate expense of other people’s feelings and lives.
The entire cast does a remarkable job of presenting this story. The film delicately unveils true heartbreak and carries a dark beauty that embodies the overall ambiance of all their emotional dilemmas. The costumes are gorgeous and the rich cinematography invites viewers into Blixen and Bjornvig’s complex world and stunning era . The film can come across incredibly slow and not knowing more about Blixen’s past was disappointing. It would have been nice to know more about her and how she came to be. It becomes clear, or at least from my pov, that Blixen is a fierce woman who lives vicariously through the “masks she wears”. These masks provide her the inspiration to create the characters and the stories she wants them to be in; however, she can’t seem to separate reality from fantasy or maybe, she simply just doesn’t care. Regardless, Blixen still earned her Nobel Prize for her literary work. A long hard film to watch but I still recommend it.
The Pact is opening in New York on February 11, 2022 and in Los Angeles and San Francisco on February 18, 2022.
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2.5
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It’s 1948 and 63-year-old Out of Africa author Karen Blixen (Neumann) has invited 30-year-old poet Thorkild Bjørnvig (Bennebjerg) to stay at her family estate to mentor him. She offers to teach him everything she knows and promises stardom as long as he will obey her unconditionally. A pact that once made begins to weigh heavily and with the aid of Blixen, driving a wedge between Bjornvig and his wife Grete (Nanna Skaarup Voss). Blixen firmly believes that in order for Bjornvig to be a great writer, he must separate himself from his marriage and son and indulge in worldly adventurous while having a healthy sexual apetite. Blixen goes as far as setting Bjornvig in the path of his financial investor’s wife, Benedicte (Asta August). Blixen’s simple game of manipulation backfires when Bjornvig and Benedicte actually fall in love with each other. Blixen’s demands become more and more pernicious and it eventually takes a toll in the lives of the people she’s manipulated and hurt. Despite the desire for the career he wants, Thorkild must choose between Blixen’s promise of fame or his family.
From director Bille August (Pelle the Conqueror) comes this sterling adaptation of Bjørnvig’s bestselling memoir. The Pact is the Official Selection of the 2022 Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Official Selection of the 2021 AFI European Union Films Showcase. Bennebjerg and Neumann have incredible chemistry throughout this film. Despite the age gap between the two, they were able to bring the connection of which their characters are entangled and portray themselves beautifully and with little dialogue. She spoke with such poise and elegant conviction while Bennebjerg grew into a trustworthy and admirable man who cares deeply for his priorities. Their time together proved to be an eccentric and intense connection of two people who were looking to fulfill their desires but at the unfortunate expense of other people’s feelings and lives.
The entire cast does a remarkable job of presenting this story. The film delicately unveils true heartbreak and carries a dark beauty that embodies the overall ambiance of all their emotional dilemmas. The costumes are gorgeous and the rich cinematography invites viewers into Blixen and Bjornvig’s complex world and stunning era . The film can come across incredibly slow and not knowing more about Blixen’s past was disappointing. It would have been nice to know more about her and how she came to be. It becomes clear, or at least from my pov, that Blixen is a fierce woman who lives vicariously through the “masks she wears”. These masks provide her the inspiration to create the characters and the stories she wants them to be in; however, she can’t seem to separate reality from fantasy or maybe, she simply just doesn’t care. Regardless, Blixen still earned her Nobel Prize for her literary work. A long hard film to watch but I still recommend it.
The Pact is opening in New York on February 11, 2022 and in Los Angeles and San Francisco on February 18, 2022.
REVIEW OVERVIEW
The Pact
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2.5
OVERALL SCORE
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Billie August
Birthe Neumann
Nanna Skaarup Voss
Simon Bennebjerg
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