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Pact, The [Plays virtually as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival running May 5-19; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] When a talented, ambitious, 29-year-old, Danish poet (Simon Bennebjerg), who is married to a devoted librarian (Nanna Skaarup Voss) and has a young son (Mikkel Kjærsgaard Stubkjær), agrees to an uneasy pact in 1948 with a well-respected, eccentric, syphilis-afflicted, famous, manipulative, bitter, 63-year-old, baroness novelist (Birthe Neumann [aka Karen Blixen/pen name Isak Dinesen]), who was famous for her 1937 memoir Out of Africa about her life on a Kenyan coffee plantation and is aided by her longtime housekeeper (Marie Mondrup), to blindly trust and obey her at all costs in exchange for her patronage and promise to make him a successful writer in Bille August's captivating, poignant, well-written, superbly acted, multilayered, thought-provoking, bittersweet, languid-paced, 115-minute, 2021 film dominated by gorgeous cinematography, sets, and costumes and adapted from Thorkild Bjørnvig's own memoir, he eventually comes to realize that the Mephistophelian agreement was neither in his best interest nor for his family.
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