The Art of Crying
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3/17/2007Runtime
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Life is not easy for 11-year-old Allan living in South Jutland during the early 1970s. His mentally unstable father frequently threatens suicide and his mother has long since given up. It's up to Allan to keep the family together. When a rival family threatens his father's livelihood, Allan starts committing atrocious acts.
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A harrowing coming-of-age portrait set in 1970s Denmark that follows a young boy crushed under the weight of his family's dysfunction and his own desperation to hold everything together. What begins as intimate family tragedy darkens into something morally troubling as Allan takes increasingly disturbing actions to protect his father's fragile world.
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