“I thought that love could wait. Too late. Too late.“
I keep running into some amazing foreign films lately. First there was Departures, a 2008 Academy Award winner, and now there’s Kinamand from Denmark.
“Kinamand” (Danish for Chinaman) starts out with a classic midlife crisis situation. Keld, a hapless plumber (Bjarne Henriksen), finds his world crumbling when his wife of 25 years (Charlotte Fich) walks out on him. Depressed and dejected, Keld starts hanging out at a local Chinese grill, where he becomes friends with the owner. Eventually Keld is offered a sizable sum to wed the Chinese owner’s sister (Vivian Wu) to keep her in the country.
Quiet, quirky and understated, this film captures well the confusion of divorce, but also the strange, eye-opening opportunities that can arise out of major life changes. I found it to be quite touching.
