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A Normal Life (DVD) (*)

$34.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Danish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
75 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Mikala Krogh

Written By:
Mikala Krogh

Actors:
Mikala Krogh

Synopsis:

Cecilie is a 12-year-old Dane who has been suffering from leukemia for years, and her ever-changing health causes enormous stress in the family. Her mother Stine struggles to divide her attention among her sick daughter, Cecilie's twin sister Katrine, and her younger daughter Frederikke. Stine can't prevent the twins from growing apart because of the different situations they're growing up in. The inevitable split is illustrated using old home movies: footage from when they were toddlers shows a healthy Katrine standing at the sickbed of her fragile sister, who has lost her hair due to chemotherapy. Cecilie's situation seems to require that Katrine behave like a healthy, happy teen. The camera follows Stine and her ex-husband on their way to the hospital and while visiting their sick daughter. They talk candidly about their fears, hopes and doubts, and try to let life go on as normally as possible. Birthdays, cooking, baking cookies and sports are all scheduled in between the many hospital visits. Cecilie is kept up-to-date on everything that's going on by way of text messages and Skype, but Stine's worries inevitably monopolize all their conversations.

The film examines how a mother keeps herself and her family going even though everything around her is an almost unbearable chaos with a daughter seriously ill of cancer. How she tries to displace the brutal realities, because she so much wants to live a normal life with her three girls. The mother wants to distribute her love and care equally among her girls, but suffers from living in a constant state of emergency. Her greatest fear is that if she starts crying everything around her will collapse.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 16 June, 2013.

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