Winner of the Jury Grand Prize and Best Debut Film at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival, A Soap is a sly tragi-comedy from director Pernille Fischer Christensen. It's about the unlikely bond between neighbors Charlotte, the brittle, dissatisfied owner of a successful beauty salon, and Veronica, an awkward, introverted pre-op transsexual who is counting the days until she receives government permission for her surgery. Charlotte is new to their building, having just broken up with her physician boyfriend, and her remedy for misery and boredom is to invite a random parade of men into her bed. Veronica too has a stream of visitors -- she makes money as a dominatrix playing strict mommies. As Stephen Holden remarked in his New York Times review, the film is "an anti-soap opera" about two people who “rescue each other from harm, and whose mutual acts of generosity seal a friendship deepened by their shared loneliness." (Denmark/Sweden, 2006, 104 minutes.) In Danish with subtitles. This film is not appropriate for children.

 

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