The Woman Who Dreamt of a Man (2010)

Best Avoided

Denmark/France/Norway/Poland/Sweden

Feature Film

Original Title: Kvinden der drømte om en mand

Director: Per Fly

Writers: Per Fly, Dorthe Warnø Høgh

Cinematographer: Harald Gunnar Paalgard

Composers: Kristian Eidnes Andersen, Stefan Nilsson

Cast: Sonja Richter, Marcin Dorocinski, Michael Nyqvist, Monika Krzywkowska, Olga Boladz

A curious and decidedly disappointing misfire from the director of The Bench (2000), this erotic thriller of sorts, which is neither erotic nor thrilling but merely risible, depicts the tawdry, passionate affair that sparks up between a Danish fashion photographer and a Polish economics professor in a Paris hotel, which, when shifted to Warsaw, develops into a dangerous (and rather familiar) obsession for the female party. Iain.Stott