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...does not appear in the film until it is almost half over. Even then she is, as it were, in disguise. She is presented merely as a Frenchwoman rendered homeless and penniless by the Communard uprising of 1871 in Paris, seeking refuge in a remote village in Jutland on Denmark's northern coast. If there is something unusual in her bearing, its source -- an extraordinary talent -- is not hinted at. For 14 years she toils unpaid, uncomplaining, almost unspeaking, as cook and servant for the spinster sisters Martina (Birgitte Federspiel) and Philippa (Bodil Kjer), who give her shelter...
...Denmark is about to become the first country in the world to grant homosexuals the legal status of married couples. A bill introduced in parliament last week provides that gay couples registering as "partners" will automatically gain the same rights to inheritance and tax deductions, the same access to social services and the same obligation to pay alimony as a husband and wife...
...mass production. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the beer section, where most national brands stack up with dull similarity. Typically, they are bland, with thin sour-sweet aftertastes. One yearns for the winy, copper-etched malt aroma and the complex flavors of the best beers of Germany, Denmark and Holland...
Svendborg, Denmark...
...write magazine articles, he said, fact pieces, probably for The New Yorker, which has published his work over the past two decades. Fact pieces about what? "Well," said Keillor, "I could get away with one Innocent Abroad piece, but only one." Really? Not a series of Letters from Denmark extending into the next century...