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Screened at this year’s Venice Festival Bastarden represents Nicolaj Arcel’s return to European cinema after an unhappy period in Hollywood. Curiously enough, the Danish director has chosen a quintessential American genre like the western to celebrate his homecoming. Bastarden is set in the mid18th century in Denmark and features the pioneers who colonised the Jutland peninsula which at that time was a bleak moorland. “I was thrilled by the idea of shooting an epic film like the ones they used to make in the 1950s and 60s. Obviously Ford’s westerns were a reference in this respect, but so was the work of other filmmakers not linked to the genre, like David Lean. However, apart from its aesthetic values, the Danish director thinks that the western is a political genre insofar as the major issue underlying all westerns is the forging of a civilisation. “It’s an interesting concept because in the eyes of all Europe, Denmark is one of the most civilised countries in the world. However, in the mid-18th century, while the Enlightenment reverberated through the rest of the continent, our country was a wild, dark land.” Arcel’s film tells the story of an army veteran of lowly birth (played by Mads Mikkelsen) who sets out to colonise, on behalf of the Crown, a hostile territory, an undertaking that will lead him to turn against the great landowners in the country, especially Frederick de Schinkel, a feudal lord who will become his main opponent.
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