the Sixth season of ‘fawlty towers’ is back – now with the subtitle ‘A new beginning’. It should, however, not put too much in, because good enough is there in the show’s universe gone six years since we were last on vacation at the North sea, so we now write, in 1939, but in many ways, everything is old. Otherwise, it would not be ‘fawlty towers’.
It does for example not the big difference, that one of the show’s hovedkarakterer, maid Fie, is written out when the actor Rosalinde Mynster wanted a new challenge (or maybe delete and court challenges), she’s just been replaced by the seemingly just as renskurede Nana, played by Laura Kjaer. And there is already cupids in the air between her and a second of the new at the hotel, Leslie, who is the son of the widow Frigh (played by, respectively. Lue and Anette Støvelbæk, who also is the son and the mother, in fact).
You have this time, however, been so smart to get ahead of the criticism by itself to put words to in the first subparagraph: ‘It is the kitsch – a picture postcard – it has absolutely nothing to do with reality. It here picture of Denmark it has arisen in the minds of sick people. It’s all polished surface’.
Svadaen is, however, intended the screenplay for the tourist movie, as Amanda (candace parker) to be as a response to it in its time extremely controversial danmarksfilm ‘Denmark’, by Poul Henningsen created the commotion in 1935 and she cannot afford to be choosy. The criticism comes from her younger sister Vera (Julie Brochorst Andersen), who is studying English at the university. She is, in other words, the intellectual, and is therefore bebrillet and anemic appearance. That’s how it is in the ‘fawlty towers’ – nothing should be left to the imagination, but should be cut in uniform pieces Dannebrogs-fromage.
We were, however, witnessed a minor sensation in the premiereafsniitet: It rained! The sun shines otherwise the constant in the Dirk Brüels strong idylliserede visuals – which, after all, make the summer in Denmark – but it turned out also that tordenskraldet only lasted a few seconds, and was only admitted in order to stress a particular emergency condition. Now, if we should be in no doubt. For it must not be at the ‘fawlty towers’.
We write well enough 1939, then the war, as we well know, but they do not know, come, is actually going on of course in the background. However, is still mostly in the form of humorous remarks such as ‘1940 will be remembered as the year where the germans really discovered Denmark.’. There is, indeed, an outright ‘feel good tv’, or what we in Danish call ‘sleep well-the tv, so we must not break the illusion.
And yet. There was actually a single scene, which was all the extra star’s worth. Namely, where mrs Fjeldsø (Birthe Neumann) tells the guests that the jews are now being rejected at the Danish border. That is, almost a year before the war. It was new knowledge for me. Thus, we have always listed us as stupid pigs facing the refugees. It was really nice to put it in place.
A welcome chink in the nostalgic image of a Denmark , that otherwise only have existed in Morten Korchs novels and advertisements for Danish agriculture, which is arguably the primary reason for the ‘fawlty towers’s mind-boggling success. More of them in the future. Thus fissures. Then ends it with that muck straight forward becomes relevant.
Medv.: Amalie Dollerup, Lars Ranthe, Anne Louise Hassing, Cecilie Stenspil m.fl.
