Sorrow and Joy (Sorg Og Glaede): Rome Review

Danish director Nils Malmros ("Tree of Knowledge") revisits a family tragedy in this drama starring Jakob Cedergren and Helle Fagralid. Danish auteur Nils Malmros turns the camera on his own tragic backstory in Sorrow and Joy (Sorg Og Glaede), a deeply personal and rather heavy-handed auto-biopic about how the director’s wife murdered their infant daughter back in 1984.  Tough and unsparing, but lacking nuance and plausibility despite its factual underpinnings, the film is far less convincing...