A Soap (En Soap) (2005)
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55% of critics liked it
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(1,634 ratings)
A dejected beauty salon owner enters into a tenuous friendship with her shy, pre-operative transsexual neighbor in director Pernille Fischer Christensen's simmering tale of affection and compassion. Thirty-two year old Charlotte (Trine Dyrholm) may own a successful beauty salon, but her failing… More A dejected beauty salon owner enters into a tenuous friendship with her shy, pre-operative transsexual neighbor in director Pernille Fischer Christensen's simmering tale of affection and compassion. Thirty-two year old Charlotte (Trine Dyrholm) may own a successful beauty salon, but her failing relationship with increasingly unstable live-in boyfriend Kristian (Frank Thiel) has found her opting to strike out on her own for a change. As Charlotte embarks on a series of strictly sexual one-night stands upstairs, downstairs neighbor Veronica (David Dencik) - born Ulrick - earns her keep as a dominatrix while taking female hormones, awaiting approval for gender reassignment surgery, and occasionally accepting provisions from his doting mother (Elsebeth Steentoft). When Charlotte requests the help of her downstairs neighbor in moving some furniture and carelessly identifies Veronica as a male, the depressive pre-op laments her chances for surgery and attempts to overdose on pills. Her suicide-attempt unexpectedly announced to her neighbors thanks to her whimpering dog Miss Daisy, Veronica is subsequently saved when Charlotte hears the animal's desperate cries and rushes her ailing neighbor to the hospital. Her selfless favor returned when Veronica defends her against a drunken Kristian shortly thereafter, lonely Charlotte eventually finds herself developing strong feelings for her neighbor despite her longstanding preference for the opposite sex. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Pernille Fischer Christensen
- Written By
- Kim Fupz Aakeson, Pernille Fischer Christensen
- Genres
- Drama, Television, Art House & International, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Nov 3, 2006 Wide
- Studio
- Strand Releasing
Critic Reviews
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Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
Fear of Flying never got made into a movie. But imagine a 21st century version transported to Denmark with a transsexual thrown in for added titillation, and you've got the gist of the amusing melodrama Soap.
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Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Another week, another movie about a depressed transsexual hooker.
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Stephen Holden, New York Times
... the film is an anti-soap opera in the trappings of an old- fashioned sudsfest.
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Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
The idea that these characters are willing to fight like cats and dogs, and destroy each other and themselves, to avoid confronting their intense attraction to each other is totally convincing.
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Ben Walters, Time Out
[The film takes] some of its cues from the soaps and melodramas the characters watch together and others from a realist tradition of considerable emotional heft.
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Cast
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Trine Dyrholm
as Charlotte
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David Dencik
as Veronica
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Frank Thiel
as Kristian
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Elsebeth Steentoft
as Veronica's Mother
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Christian Tafdrup
as Customer
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Jacob Lohmann
as One-Night Stand
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Pauli Ryberg
as Customer
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Claes Bang
as One-Night Stand
- Jakob Ulrik Lohmann
- Trine Dryholm
- Christian Mosbęk
