En soap 2006

Stephen Holden, New York Times: ... the film is an anti-soap opera in the trappings of an old- fashioned sudsfest. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: The idea that these characters are willing to fight like cats and dogs, and destroy each other and themselves, to avoid confronting their intense attraction to each other is totally convincing. Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Fear of Flying never got made into a movie. But imagine a 21st century version transported to Denmark with a transsexual thrown in for added titillation, and you've got the gist of the amusing melodrama Soap. Read more

Ben Walters, Time Out: [The film takes] some of its cues from the soaps and melodramas the characters watch together and others from a realist tradition of considerable emotional heft. Read more