Synopsis
Jonas is a Copenhagen homicide scene photographer, happily married, with two kids. One day, his car stalls, another car slams into him, runs head on into a third car and flips into the ditch. The other driver, Julia, is critically injured. He visits her in the hospital and is greeted by her family, who assumes he must be the Sebastian she told them about, the new fiance she met in Vietnam.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Anders W. BerthelsenJonas
- Rebecka HemseJulia
- Nikolaj Lie KaasSebastian
- Charlotte FichMette
- Dejan ČukićFrank
- Ewa FrölingMrs. Castlund
- Bent MejdingMr. Castlund
- Josephine RaahaugeMonica Castlund
- Timm VladimirMagnus Castlund
- Ditte HansenKirsten
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
It's interesting that two of the best thrillers of the last several months, "Tell No One" and Just Another Love Story, have come from Europe. Both movies gain because they star actors unfamiliar to us. - 75
New York Post
A creative mix of horror, noir and psychological thriller. At times the story defies logic, but viewers who can accept that will find themselves caught up in the film's intensity. - 75
Chicago Tribune
A preposterous but beautifully polished Danish thriller. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
You can see this Danish offering as a sardonic update of familiar noir material, or simply as the story of the midlife crisis of a guy who wishes - or dreams, or dreads - that he's living out a grand drama. There are pleasures to be had either way. - 70
Variety
Contrived excess is rarely as entertaining as it is in the ironically titled Just Another Love Story, a furiously overheated romantic thriller from Danish writer-helmer Ole Bornedal. - 70
Salon
You could call Just Another Love Story nothing more than an exercise in style, but A) Bornedal's got style to burn and B) that's not quite fair. Beneath all the dazzling cinematography, propulsive score and overcommitted acting, I found this movie an affecting, mordant comedy about male midlife crisis in its most extreme form. - 70
The New York Times
It may not go anywhere in particular, but it is as exciting as a trip through a well-equipped, scary fun house. - 70
Chicago Reader
In its voluble mix of accident trauma and infidelity, this 2007 Danish feature by Ole Bornedal is highly reminiscent of Susanne Bier's superb "Open Hearts."
