Gry Worre Hallberg

The Wake is the title of a large-scale multimedia project, the main element of which is an eight-hour long silent movie. The film is based on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (London 1939), a limit-transgressing, perhaps even limit-dissolving book that not only transgresses the limits of what literature is and is capable of, but inscribes transgressions on almost all conceivable levels. It is at the same time dream book, history book and necrology. It is almost impossible to determine whether we are dealing with a long poem, a prose narrative or a piece of drama.

Tout le monde a été invité pour les soixante ans du chef de famille. La famille, les amis se retrouvent dans le manoir d'Helge Klingenfelt. Christian, le fils aîné de Helge, est chargé par son père de dire quelques mots au cours du dîner, sur sa soeur jumelle, Linda, morte un an plus tôt. Tandis qu'au sous-sol tout se prépare avec pour chef d'orchestre Kim, le chef cuisinier, ami d'enfance de Christian, le maître de cérémonie convie les invités à passer à table. Personne ne se doute de rien, quand Christian se lève pour faire son discours et révéler de terribles secrets.

For the last ten years 40-year-old Jeppe has paid daily visits to the nursing home where his crippled wife, Tove, has been put after a serious traffic accident to remain for the rest of her life. Desperate about this meningless fate, Jeppe has put everything else in life aside and has chosen to be faithful and devoted to her. But this cannot go on, his pseudo-life becomes too much for his crippled wife. She pretends to be in love with her male nurse and throws Jeppe out.