The Gentle Pain
2019, DA. Directed by Carsten Brandt.
One can't help wondering whether, some quarter-century ago, Carsten Brandt had the slightest inkling of the epic dimension the project he was then starting to conceive – The Gentle Pain – would take on in the subsequent decades. For it became epic in just about every sense of the word: the film is very long; it tells a multi-layered story characterised as much by its digressions as by its main narrative thread, which concerns a filmmaker’s attempts to make sense of the life of Thorkild Hansen, a Danish traveller/historian/writer internationally probably best known for his non-fiction novel Processen mod Hamsun (1978); and it took a long time to finish – and then sat on a shelf due to legal battles galore. What is now finally revealed is a monument of modern(ist) cinema: a work that as much charts one man’s journey into his soul as a voyage of discovery into another artist’s mind.
- Runtime
- 4h 40m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- DA
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- Released
- 1 February 2019
- Original title
- Den milde smerte
- Country
- Denmark
- Written by
- Carsten Brandt
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The Gentle Pain runs 280 minutes (4h 40m).
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The Gentle Pain isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 February 2019. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
What movies are like The Gentle Pain?
If you liked The Gentle Pain, try Bastard Out of Carolina, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, The Inheritance.
Who directed The Gentle Pain?
The Gentle Pain (2019) was directed by Carsten Brandt and stars Ewa Fröling, Caspar Phillipson, Laure Calamy.