This feature debut from Danish director Annette K Olesen is an ensemble drama, developed through improvisation in a style Olesen explicitly credits to Mike Leigh. The result does Leigh proud. It's well acted, with charm and wit, and a story that hangs together much more credibly than another Danish movie, similarly devised: Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners. Shot on digital video, it resembles a Dogme film, and yet its comedy and human insight would be atypical for a Dogme offering, lacking both the harshness or facetiousness that tend to emerge in that line. In fact, with its incest theme, it's vaguely reminiscent of Thomas Vinterberg's Festen, but boasts a very different, much lighter touch.

Jorgen Kiil plays the jocose patriarch, an ageing, overweight male nurse. His wife dies, leaving their grown-up children devastated, especially their gawky, maladroit youngest daughter Marianne (Maria Wurgler Rich), a very Mike Leigh-ish character, who effectively moves in to the family home to comfort John as a quasi-wife figure, to her siblings' unease. Olesen moves between the lives of these children and their uncle - an engineer, a would-be artist, a carpenter with a failing marriage - with winning dexterity and control. This really grew on me, and by the end I sported a continuous, benign smile.