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Nynne

2005 · 90 min.

5 out of 8

Review

Machine-translated from Danish.

The romantic comedy Nynne is about the single woman Nynne, who is past 30 but whose life is more like that of a confused teenage girl than of a grown woman. She goes out on the town every weekend, has a succession of boyfriends and one-night stands, regularly drinks herself senseless and shops her problems away. Meanwhile she dreams of getting her life sorted and meeting Mr Right. Nynne thought she had found the man of her life, but in one of the film's many cringe-inducing scenes it turns out that he sees things differently. So the hunt for the one and only starts all over again.

Nynne is the Danish version of the English "Bridget Jones's Diary", just as clumsy, hapless and lovable precisely because of all her very human sides. So the character cannot be accused of being original. Nor can the film escape being hugely predictable and more episodic than driven by an actual plot, but even so it is great fun to follow Nynne's indomitability and ability to survive the extremely embarrassing situations she always ends up in.

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