Holiday
In a dramatic story that looks like a criminal, that story tells of a strong love story with a friend of a narcotics man, and that girl seems to have been touched by the tattered spaces of luxury and violence in the tale of dark gangs about to appear in a tragic form. In the beautiful seaside town of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera everything will look exciting and dramatic between both.
May 1, 1971 in Denmark
3 September 1971
November 18, 1996 in Odense, Denmark
3 October 1987, Copenhagen, Denmark
17 May 1973, Oranjestad, Aruba
July 26, 1978 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
December 19, 1980 in Denmark
January 19, 2018
Sascha is curious character; self-contained and self-obsessed but almost completely without self-determination. She is unformed and uninformed, guided by instinct, appetite and apathy rather than considered thought.
August 06, 2018
Posing thorny questions that confront ideas of complicity and masochism... This one sticks with you.
January 26, 2018
It's directly due to the dramatic somnolence of the first half that what comes after hits with such blunt force.
October 05, 2018
Eklöf lacks a human touch that should've lifted her impressive formal habits from merely cold precision.
November 02, 2018
The film leaves the viewer feeling shaken, for the better, and announces Isabella Eklöf as a bold new voice in European cinema.
January 27, 2018
For a directorial vision that wants to challenge what we do and don't see, Eklof also adds complications to trauma that make Holiday a searing character study.
June 12, 2018
Holiday succeeds as an unsympathetic, subversive spin on the rape-revenge genre, a film which offers no easy answers to its many probing objections.
January 26, 2018
Sascha is a complex character whose actions don't adhere to traditional story beats.
October 22, 2018
This is a dream world open only to the rich -- even Thomas owns a yacht -- and to most of those who glimpse it, it will remain distant. To stay there - to become one of its creatures - one has to break all the usual rules.
January 31, 2018
[Eklöf] has the provocateur's gift for images that needle, nettle and stick, well before their message locks firmly into place.
