Jannik Johansen's drama White Night (above) received the most nominations — five in all — for the 2007 Danish Film Critics Association's Bodil Awards. The film follows a real estate agent (best actor nominee Lars Brygmann) who attempts to make amends after having accidentally killed a man in a barroom brawl.
The other best film nominees were:
- Peter Schønau Fog's The Art of Crying, a black comedy about an abusive father in a Jutland community;
- Natasha Arthy's Fighter, about a girl who wants to become a kung-fu fighter despite her Turkish family's disapproval;
- Morten Hartz Kaplers' AFR, a mockumentary about the assassination of Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen — an avid supporter of the invasion of Iraq — which "reveals" that the married p.m. was gay. (Though quite right-wing in many of his socioeconomic policies, Rasmussen is reportedly a supporter of gay marriages in Denmark's Lutheran church.) Kaplers himself plays Rasmussen's lover-assassin.
"Seamlessly put together and with considerable aplomb,"Russell Edwards says about AFR in Variety, "the mockumentary mercilessly subverts Rasmussen's real-life actions and statements. Legal consequences in Denmark may be dire, but this agitprop work by writer-director-thesp Kaplers is a tour de force."