Sex, Drugs & Taxation
MovieTitle | Spies og Glistrup |
User score | 6.5 |
Release date | Aug 29, 2013 |
Genre | Comedy, Drama |
Director | Christoffer Boe |
Production country | Denmark |
Production companies | AlphaVille Pictures Copenhagen, Nordisk Film Denmark |
Run time | 110 min. |
Maybe the best thing to come out of Scandinavia during the hippie years was, in fact, the story of a radical libertarian and a hedonist capitalist. Their friendship, forged by being outsiders in a conformist country, took them through years of adulation and success, with slight detours into the welcoming arms of vilification and imprisonment. A joyride through taxation, mass travel, hookers and politics. Not feeling too constrained by historical facts, director Christoffer Boe's story of Simon Spies and Mogens Glistrup covers just a few of their decades in a tale of warmth and humour, defiance and eccentricity.