Weekend Movie Forecast: The Cove or Funny People

Inspired by true events, the Danish film Flame & Citron is set in World War II-era Copenhagen, where two resistance fighters gunning for the Nazis can only trust each other. Manohla Dargis at the Times says director Ole Christian Madsen "fixes on the down-and-dirty logistics of the missions, some of which are bungled to good dramatic effect, and to the burden increasingly borne by Flame and Citron as a consequence of their bloody work. Though he tries to complicate the story with the fighters’ moral unease — there’s a startling, pointedly unromantic moment when Flame covers one victim’s eyes before he shoots — the elaborate story, with its double agents and competing Resistance groups, doesn’t allow him to tunnel into the characters and their existential questions."