Apr 2, 2011 – This year’s winner of the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is the Danish movie In A Better World, released in theaters this weekend.
In A Better World compares the lives of two families in a town in Denmark with those of hundreds of people in a refugee camp in Africa. The beauty of the former appears to contrast greatly from the latter. Yet, as the movie develops, we see how chaos and troubles put all of them alike through arrays of basic human emotions - from pain to reconciliation.
“It asks whether our own ‘advanced’ culture is the model for a better world,” says director Susanne Bier, “or whether the same disarray found in lawlessness is lurking beneath the surface of our civilization.” Bier is one of the most prominent Danish film directors today and the third director out of Denmark to receive an Oscar award. Before this film she directed Things We Lost In The Fire in 2007 and several movies dating back to 1991.
In A Better World is a reminder that we humans are not that different from one another, that we share the same range of emotions, and that we all, in fact, need a better world.
The film is 113 minutes long. Rated R. Spoken in Danish, Swedish, and English. It is now showing at the Landmark Theaters and the Arclight Hollywood. More information at http://www.inabetterworldmovie.com
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