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Anders W. Berthelsen, Rebecka Hemse, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Charlotte Fich, Dejan Cukic ... see more see more... , Ewa Fröling , Bent Mejding , Karsten Jansfort , Flemming Enevold , Josephine Raahauge , Timm Vladimir , Ditte Hansen , Fanny Bornedal , Daniel Stampe , Jannie Faurschou , Karin Jagd , Niels Anders Thorn , Desmond Boateng , Rune Klan , Thomas Chaaning , Lin Kun Wu

Nightwatch director Ole Bornedal returns to quicken the pulse of thriller fans with this genre-bending tale of a crime scene photographer and family man who is violently shaken out of his suburban mal... read more read more...aise following a fateful car accident. Jonas makes his living by capturing gruesome crime scenes in all of their lurid detail, yet lately the beleaguered shutterbug has grown increasingly despondent in both his career and his personal life. One day, while driving through the city, Jonas is involved in a car accident with a young woman named Julia. Unconscious due to the impact of the crash, Julia is rushed to the hospital. Later, a concerned Jonas makes a special trip to check in on Julia, and finds her comatose in her hospital bed and surrounded by loved ones. Having never actually met her boyfriend Sebastian, Julia's family immediately assumes that Jonas is the man they've all heard so much about as of late. While Jonas is all too willing to step into the role for the time being, his ruse grows complicated when Julia awakens with amnesia, and the real Sebastian begins to grow curious about the intruder that has stolen his identity. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 44 min.

Directed by: Ole Bornedal

Release Date: August 24, 2007

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DVD Release Date: May 5, 2009

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  • gator681
    January 11, 2009
    gator681
    [font=Century Gothic]"Just Another Love Story" is anything but.[/font]
    [font=Century Gothic][/font]
    [font=Century Gothic]After all, how many start like this: Jonas(Anders W. Berthelsen), a crime scene photographer, is dying in the middle of the street on a rainy night with his ... read morewife Mette(Charlotte Fich) crying over him.[/font]

    [font=Century Gothic]Even though the passion has lessened from their marriage, they are still happy with two children and a car that is constantly breaking down. When it breaks down again on the side of the road, it inadvertantly causes Julia(Rebecka Hemse) to spectacularly crash her car, leaving her in a coma. Feeling guilty, Jonas goes to see her at the hospital, bluffing his way into her room as her boyfriend Sebastian(Nikolaj Lie Kaas).[/font]

    [font=Century Gothic]That's strange. Because Julia shot Sebastian in Hanoi.[/font]

    [font=Century Gothic]Got that?[/font]

    [font=Century Gothic]"Just Another Love Story" is a neat psychological mystery with a couple of plot conveniences including Julia's blindness and a dead boyfriend. It is influenced by both Almodovar and Hitchcock with a structure that blurs reality and fantasy which is appropriate since both Julia and Jonas have their share of dreams which is how they bond in a bravura sequence that cuts back and forth between the hospital and a Saturday evening at Jonas'. Subscribing to National Geographic, Jonas dreams of traveling the world which requires not only money but the will. Julia's dreams of travel might have leaned more to the romantic, never thinking they would land her in a hospital room back in her native land of Denmark which she was trying to escape along with her family. While Jonas comes off as something of a heel(but does he deserve his fate?), he is still trying to do the right thing and be nice which is her family's fantasy of the kind of man she should be attached to. But Julia may be too much of a fighter to need any of them. [/font]
  • GabrielKnight
    July 27, 2011
    GabrielKnight
    A mesmerizing noir thriller. It grabs your attention from the opening scenes: three "love stories" which may not be quite what they seem... the clever plot will keep you glued to the screen until the ending credits. The cinematography is absolutely amazing - the car crash scene i... read mores truly something I've never seen before. It's been quite some time since I watched this movie but the images from the wintry road are still in my head.
  • RicC
    January 29, 2010
    RicC
    Swedish film noir? It's composed mostly as a Hollywood thriller or romance, with dark edges. Very punky beginning. I think I've seen or read a similar plot before, but great and tangential nevertheless. Mistaken identity, amnesia, infidelity, reincarnation (?). The crash scene is... read more worth being shocked about.
  • filmcans
    September 22, 2008
    filmcans
    This plays out like some alternate reality version of While You Were Sleeping, in which nobody really cares about the romantic comedy part, and instead wants to see the characters run through a darkly emotional wringer. The cast is quite good; everyone gets some nice character m... read moreoments (and by ?nice? I mean ?meaty?. This film is anything but nice). While the film is weighted down slightly with artsy intentions (pretensions?), the twists and turns of the plot, and the well-drawn characters make this worth seeing.

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Ty Burr
March 26, 2009
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

It's good, nasty fun until it gets boxed in by its own contrivances toward the end. Full Review

Walter V. Addiego
February 20, 2009
Walter V. Addiego, 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 gran... Full Review

J. R. Jones
February 20, 2009
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

[Bornedal] steers his mistaken-identity story in a more generic direction. Full Review

Michael Phillips
February 20, 2009
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

I suspect anyone who went for last year's foreign-language pulp fiction of choice, Tell No One, will be rewarded by Ole Bornedal's latest. Full Review

Roger Ebert
February 19, 2009
Roger Ebert, 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. Full Review

V.A. Musetto
January 9, 2009
V.A. Musetto, 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. Full Review

Stephen Holden
January 9, 2009
Stephen Holden, New York Times

As Just Another Love Story zigzags between austere realism (the scenes of Jonas and his family) and surreal gore, you have the not unpleasant sense of being taken for a ride. Full Review

Andrew O'Hehir
January 8, 2009
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

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. Full Review

Nicolas Rapold
January 6, 2009
Nicolas Rapold, Village Voice

Bertelsen's puffy sheepishness isn't involving enough to distract from the routine plot perforations. Full Review

Justin Chang
January 30, 2008
Justin Chang, 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. Full Review

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