Went and saw the US premiere of the Danish film "A soap" ("En soap") last night at the Seattle International Film Festival. While not a Dogme film, it employed minimalist sets and production values to let the emotional weight of the screenplay and performances shine through. Very naturalistic and powerful, even with the silly artsy-fartsy interstitial pieces used to mark the sections breaks (think Calvin Klein commercial). Lead actor David Dencik (Veronica) was on-hand to answer a few post-film questions and was extremely amiable and interesting, especially when discussing the lengths he went to understand and research his character. As for the music in the film, it was fun to see a dancing scene paying homage to The Knife and their "Pass this on" video (though "Take my breath away" was the song used). I understand that Landmark has picked the film up for limited US distribution (40 cities), so keep an eye out for it.