Top 20 Alternative Picks for TIFF 2013: Christoffer Boe’s Sex Drugs & Taxation

Christoffer Boe – Sex Drugs & Taxation

Section: Vanguard
Dates: Saturday 7th, Sunday 8th, Friday 13th

Buzz: Originally titled Spies & Gilstrup, Danish filmmaker Christoffer Boe has been steadily making films since his successful Cannes premiered 2003 debut, Reconstruction, which still stands as his best known work and starred Maria Bonnevie and Nikolaj Lee Kaas. While Boe seems to recycle many of his cast members (including Kaas and Nicolas Bro), his projects are often offbeat, intriguingly styled, and notably acted. Sadly, Boe’s last feature, 2011’s Beast, which was described as a cross between Alien and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on the fest circuit, never saw a theatrical release here, though it’s yet another subdued examination of the literal manifestations of grotesque happenings brought about by the excess of human emotion. His latest, which stars Bro and Jesper Christiensen is a sort of period piece biopic, so we’re certain this will be a compelling change of pace for Boe.

The Gist: The film about two of Denmark’s most colorful personalities –the radical libertarian Mogens Glistrup and hedonist capitalist Simon Spies.