Hace unos días la noticia fue: un submarino francés acaricia a uno británico cerca de Finisterre. Historia de amor entre dos mortíferos monstruos de acero que nunca deberían encontrar su punto tangente, se quedaron a unos centímetros, los suficientes. Finalmente las cabezas nucleares siguen durmiendo ese sueño del que nunca deberían despertar. Toda esta historia sucedía mientras Thomas Vinterberg rueda "Submarino" , adaptación de una novela Jonas T.Bengtsson sólo publicada en los países nórdicos y última oportunidad de recuperar el crédito perdido para el firmante de " Celebración" tras el fracaso de su aventura americana con " It's all about love" y el decepcionante retorno a casa con "A man comes here" , ambas inéditas en España.El film está protagonizado por Jakob Cedergren y, aunque formalmente se aleje de los cánones Dogma que hicieron famoso a Vinterberg , la película, cuyo rodaje se incio el pasado enero, cuenta con un presupuesto reducido. SINOPSIS DE "SUBMARINO" Submarino tells the story of two brothers, neither of whom was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Nick lives in a grotty boarding-house that is home to society’ rejects. All they have left are their dreams. For Nick, only two things are important – his daily ration of alcohol (in the form of beer) and the gym where he regularly works out. His big brother’s life is different, and yet in many ways the same. His drug is heroin. He needs a fix three times a day to keep a grip on things. At the same time, he struggles to give his life some semblance of normality for the five-year-old son he is bringing up on his own. The two brothers have been familiar with this sort of life since childhood. Once there were three of them. Their younger brother was the apple of their eye and a huge burden at the same time. When their mother lay there for days on end in alcohol-induced delirium – or didn’t even come home at all, they would steal baby-food, milk and nappies from the nearest supermarket. When the baby’s screaming was unbearable, turning the TV up louder and louder didn’t really help. The time came when it was all too much … Neither of them has ever come to terms with the traumatic childhood experience etched into their consciousness. It forces its way into the foreground more and more and determines their lives. When their mother dies, the two brothers see each other for the first time in many years. Nick wants nothing to do with the money they inherit from their mother. He hates her. His brother takes it and thinks he has hit the jackpot. He buys several kilos of quality heroin and starts dealing. He earns money, real money, masses of it. Then he gets others to do the actual transactions for him. They, too, are addicts, but everything seems to be working out well, until… Well, everyone makes a mistake sometime. Just like Nick, the loner who thinks nothing of solving problems with brute force. His only weakness is the retarded brother of his ex-girlfriend. In the end, both brothers are up to their eyeballs in shit – literally. Jonas T. Bengtsson’s Submarino is a gripping novel. This is not a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, nor a book for the beach; it is certainly not a nice bedtime read. The story is as tough and raw as the reality it describes – straightforwardly and honestly, without mincing matters. Brilliant. FRAGMENTO DE LA NOVELA "SUBMARINO"