Camping (2009) User Reviews

A OK road movie from Denmark

[cay-9 · 6/10 · 27 June 2010]

Could anybody believe that Denmark where going to make a road movie. Well here it is. Director Jacob Bitsch (hm...) who where the director behind "endless dead ends" has in this movie probably made his best film ever.

Its really about people like you and me. If we had our dad shooting him self in a camper and we where forced to take a journey in that very camper with the rest of the family. But along the way struggling writer Connie (Mia Lyhne)and her family meets up with people that will force you to take a journey inside what you believe is yourself and what all your fears are.

This is no Bergman material but its a cute movie and well worth watching if you don't have anything else to do. You wont be disappointed but it will not shake up you foundation es well.

If you like slow dark humor this is the movie fore you!

Off-beat holiday

[endymionng · 6/10 · 16 March 2013]

Debut movie from a graduate in the danish film school. Very cheaply made road-movie about a dysfunctional family. Mom and Dad had a minor hit 15 years ago, but Dad became depressed and blew his brains out in the miniature family mobile home on his birthday. Now 2 years later mom is ever so slightly trying to reconnect with the teenage son who has grown into a fat bully and the depressed mousy older sister who works in a used bookstore. However Mom has chosen to take the family on a Road Trip in the very same mobile home that Dad used. On the trip they meet a divorcée and his teenage daughter in a wheelchair. In some ways this is has some of the same weirdness as Little Miss Sunshine and similar fare, but with less stories to tell. Still it is well made and the cameraman has made a a consistent choice to use long lenses, fish-eye objective and long shots with straight lines and angles that gives the movie a visual style.

Touching, strong movie

[AntiqueAuntie · 26 February 2014]

Yes, there's black humor, but above all there are real emotions pictured, a broken family whose members can't cope with the actual situation after the tragic death of one of theirs. Mia Lyhne is hardly a beginner, but her acting was a discovery for me in this film. Lyhne's eyes and her face speak more than words and without her participation in this film, I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it so much. The film is not long, but it is full packed with real feelings, real heartaches, real sorrow. Within an hour or so, I had made friends with the main protagonists and while more than once I did not understand the choices they made, it was more than enjoyable to observe how they get out of a sad loop and get a grip on their life. Kudoz to the young film director and congrats to Mia Lyhne! Having said that, I must stress that all the other actors play real, strong, memorable characters. I won't forget this piece in a long time.