A broken mirror, a broken man, and a woman who looks like Ingrid Bergman walk into a bar...
Window cleaner Bent A. Pedersen, with his indomitable spirit, lives with his friend Sigfred because he can't stand his neurotic wife and disabled son. When a boy accidentally smashes the side mirror of his new car, Bent follows him to get his father to pay for the damage. A pretty but fragile single mother, whom Bent thinks resembles Ingrid Bergman, opens the door, and life in Amager is never the same again.
Acting
Clausen's lived-in performance—gruff, ridiculous, devastating.
Writing
Dialogue that finds profundity in petty grievances.
Director
Erik Clausen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Clausen directed himself here, continuing his career chronicling working-class Copenhagen with zero Hollywood gloss.
The Ingrid Bergman reference isn't random—Danish cinema has long fetishized her as unattainable ideal femininity.
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