1 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:06,580 it's Christmas, so what? 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:08,520 who is happy and why? 3 00:00:08,860 --> 00:00:12,000 does skiing make you happy? 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:14,640 Christmas is as good as it gets 5 00:00:14,740 --> 00:00:16,460 snow and sleat and sip and slush 6 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,620 so we look forward to it is over 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,180 everything goes down the hill at breakneck speed 8 00:00:24,380 --> 00:00:28,320 and soon the Christmas pixie is starting to die out, so march 9 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:30,200 it's pure therapy 10 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,140 it's mass hysteria 11 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,660 we are so sad to mention it, but... 12 00:00:36,140 --> 00:00:39,280 now it's Christmas in the treadmill again 13 00:00:40,260 --> 00:00:42,740 it's Christmas, X-M-A-S 14 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:43,940 God, how commercial it is 15 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,100 soon, the air will be filled with fraud and trickery 16 00:00:48,060 --> 00:00:51,900 Christmas is, as you know, always is an inconvenience 17 00:00:52,020 --> 00:00:55,280 because it sets the most extreme demands, 18 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,300 but in a time when no one really knows what they want 19 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:03,580 it is the last straw we can cling to 20 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:07,480 has it first gotten through your joyous child-like mind, 21 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,920 you'll be mindlessly joyously sick, 22 00:01:11,460 --> 00:01:14,800 then it's Christmas in the treadmill yet again. 23 00:01:15,460 --> 00:01:18,400 CHRISTMAS IN THE OLD THREADMILL. 24 00:01:25,460 --> 00:01:27,400 Flemming? 25 00:01:28,460 --> 00:01:30,400 Flemming? 26 00:01:31,460 --> 00:01:33,400 Flemming? 27 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:38,400 Flemming? 28 00:02:21,460 --> 00:02:22,400 Hi Berit. 29 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:26,700 - Flemming, hold me. - Berit, what's going on with you? 30 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:27,680 Have you had a shower? 31 00:02:27,820 --> 00:02:30,300 - Oh Flemming, I'm so afraid. - What are you afraid of? 32 00:02:30,340 --> 00:02:32,820 I'm afraid the boiler has gone caput. We have no more warm water. 33 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:35,480 Oh God no, what should I do? 34 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,600 How should I manage to wash the car? 35 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,700 Flemming, isn't there anything else you'd like? 36 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:45,380 Yes, it must also be polished, and waxed and shined up 37 00:02:45,380 --> 00:02:47,780 - before we go to Val d'Isere. - You don't intend to show 38 00:02:47,780 --> 00:02:50,080 yourself in Val d'Isere with such an old bucket! 39 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,600 Oh goodness, Berit, you're only 32. 40 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:58,560 Flemming, shouldn't we bring the coffee upstairs? 41 00:02:58,820 --> 00:03:01,700 Well, you just do that, then I'll slip right to the little bakery lady. 42 00:03:01,860 --> 00:03:03,460 She's got some buns, just like that. 43 00:03:10,860 --> 00:03:13,460 THE BAKERY CORNER. 44 00:03:26,860 --> 00:03:28,060 Anything else? 45 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,320 No thanks, I think I got it all with. 46 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:42,800 Hi Berit, you old frozen stick. Oh no, it's the same thing every single Sunday, 47 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:44,112 that neighbor is soon taking the life of me. 48 00:03:44,380 --> 00:03:49,820 - Oh, Flemming, come on. - Why do people always have to be so greedy? 49 00:03:50,020 --> 00:03:53,540 Oh Flemming, now us two really need to get cozy, 50 00:03:54,540 --> 00:03:56,140 and have some breakfast. 51 00:03:58,220 --> 00:04:01,500 What is wrong, darling? What did I do? 52 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:03,680 You sat on the zwieback- buns. 53 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,680 You know what, we can just go up in bed again, 54 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,500 and lay and slumber all day with a good newspaper. 55 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,540 No, that won't work either, they only had the Jutland's Gazette left. 56 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,600 Flemming, then there's only one thing left to do. 57 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,100 - I want fire in the fireplace. - Do you want a fire in the fireplace? 58 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:23,300 Yes, come on! 59 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:28,000 Can't you see it, the two of us together alone in an 60 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,060 tender embrace in front of a bouldering fire? 61 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,680 Yes. And I had to lie there on a lambskin rug 62 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,980 in negligee. Yes, and then I could squat next to you, 63 00:04:37,980 --> 00:04:39,860 and make twist bread just like when we were young. 64 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:42,160 Berit, if you make the dough, I'll hurry right over to the gas station 65 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,540 and get some briquettes. Chica-chicalee... ouch, ouch. 66 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,700 No Flemming, it must be more romantic. 67 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,280 It must be Birch-firewood, that we have collected together, 68 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,400 - on a long trot through the forest. - On a trot? 69 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:58,540 - Yes. - Oh, Berit, isn't it pretty hazardous? 70 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,040 I'm still a little bit sore in my knees from all that fitness. 71 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:02,820 And it's so terribly chilly out there. 72 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,420 Flemming, I don't care. Now nothing can stop us! 73 00:05:06,420 --> 00:05:09,420 Well unless Torben and Bente comes by for a visit. 74 00:05:12,420 --> 00:05:16,620 Hi Torben and Bente. It was certainly unannounced, huh? 75 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,220 - Yeah, we were just passing by, so... - Right out here. 76 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:24,080 Yes, that means we were up on the Ring Road. 77 00:05:24,580 --> 00:05:30,080 But then... at the first traffic lights there, just after the bakery, then... 78 00:05:31,380 --> 00:05:34,960 Well, if you can imagine that you have the Ring Road right here... 79 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:39,300 Then... then we turned right down that... 80 00:05:40,300 --> 00:05:44,780 - Oh, the little there... - Yes, then we just passed by right out here. 81 00:05:45,780 --> 00:05:48,060 Yes, that had never happened in Val d'Isère. 82 00:05:48,780 --> 00:05:50,060 What, don't you want to come inside? 83 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:53,000 Oh, won't it be too much, Berit? 84 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,160 We only just stopped by. 85 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,700 Right out here. 86 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:06,200 It's a nice couch, Berit. 87 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:13,200 - Yes, it's good and like that... - ...to sit in it and look at the advent wreath. 88 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:15,860 It's the first Sunday in Advent, Flemming. 89 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:18,300 We don't have any advent... wreath. Flemming? 90 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,760 Flemming? 91 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,540 So, are you celebrating anything this year? 92 00:06:26,820 --> 00:06:30,560 Nah, I don't. Do you celebrate anything? 93 00:06:31,580 --> 00:06:34,080 Nah, I never celebrate anything. 94 00:06:35,580 --> 00:06:37,080 What would that be? 95 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:42,600 Then we have the slightly more spicy one here. 96 00:06:42,700 --> 00:06:47,500 The one with musk. Is it for someone they like a lot? 97 00:06:48,060 --> 00:06:51,240 One that they've been neglecting a bit lately? 98 00:06:51,540 --> 00:06:57,440 Then we're going into this one. It can also be used for the undercarriage. 99 00:06:57,840 --> 00:06:59,220 And otherwise, anything else? 100 00:06:59,420 --> 00:07:03,760 Yes, there were the five out there. 20 liters, just enough for a sticker. 101 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:07,500 You are well aware that it must be filled before the 24th. 102 00:07:07,900 --> 00:07:12,940 Because they would like to win that white Toyota. 103 00:07:14,900 --> 00:07:17,940 "Fill up the leaflet. And get a white Toyota." 104 00:07:18,940 --> 00:07:22,400 And then I should have a bag of biscuits. And an advent wreath and some briquettes. 105 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,430 I'm sorry, their neighbor have just been there. 106 00:07:35,050 --> 00:07:39,430 Yes, now you finally take... It's French. 107 00:07:39,530 --> 00:07:42,230 We should have just have had it for our dinner. So that's that. 108 00:07:45,230 --> 00:07:47,050 It's a Force Majeure. 109 00:07:53,230 --> 00:07:58,050 No, we're not celebrating anything this year. We can't endure it. 110 00:07:58,830 --> 00:08:03,310 So it's just going to be a little brown potatoes, a little white potatoes, and a little sour, 111 00:08:03,410 --> 00:08:08,310 and then sauce over it, and then a small skinny piece of neck pig 112 00:08:08,410 --> 00:08:11,110 with a little rind, and then rice porridge, 113 00:08:11,210 --> 00:08:14,090 - and then done. - And a little confetti. 114 00:08:14,190 --> 00:08:19,190 - No, because we don't eat it. - Nah. 115 00:08:20,090 --> 00:08:23,710 - Not if it's not there. - Yes, we're not in the Christmas spirit, either. 116 00:08:23,810 --> 00:08:27,490 No. Isn't that mostly something you are in the province? 117 00:08:28,130 --> 00:08:31,270 - Where would that be? - At Aalborg Bodega for example. 118 00:08:35,490 --> 00:08:39,630 Now I've traveled a lot with extra mail from country to country. 119 00:08:39,830 --> 00:08:43,250 And the funny thing about me is I spread such an atmosphere and party, 120 00:08:43,390 --> 00:08:48,450 and warm-heartedness. People they simply can't be with me without being influenced. 121 00:08:51,450 --> 00:08:54,610 Then I also have another problem, and that is that I'm invisible. 122 00:08:54,710 --> 00:08:58,210 Yes, yes, yes, yes. That sounds very exciting, huh? 123 00:08:58,810 --> 00:09:01,610 Well, I'm invisible. Don't you believe what I say? 124 00:09:02,270 --> 00:09:04,690 So try to come with the bill. 125 00:09:05,270 --> 00:09:07,690 - ... we'll have to talk about that. - Yes. 126 00:09:13,270 --> 00:09:15,690 You need to go far out in the boondocks with that. Haha. 127 00:09:16,090 --> 00:09:19,650 Hey, hey, get home save. 128 00:09:19,850 --> 00:09:23,190 Think of it, don't you think it's as if Torben and Bente are slipping apart, huh? 129 00:09:27,790 --> 00:09:30,250 You also have to get that driveway graveled. 130 00:09:30,350 --> 00:09:34,090 But it's nice of him to repair the oil boiler. What was wrong with it? 131 00:09:34,230 --> 00:09:37,110 He thinks, there's something rotten with the whole system. 132 00:09:37,490 --> 00:09:39,030 I feel that too. 133 00:09:47,030 --> 00:09:51,610 Oh, Berit. I can't stand looking down at a cold Bouillabaisse 134 00:09:52,030 --> 00:09:54,610 from yesterday without asking myself of certain things. 135 00:09:54,730 --> 00:09:56,610 Is it even right for us to go to Val d'Isre? 136 00:09:57,190 --> 00:09:59,350 Shouldn't we, at least bring food down there ourselves? 137 00:09:59,950 --> 00:10:01,830 And where does this smoke come from? 138 00:10:02,170 --> 00:10:05,210 God Flemming, it's the chimney, it's clogged. 139 00:10:05,310 --> 00:10:07,770 - Is it clogged? - Yes! 140 00:10:07,870 --> 00:10:10,070 Yes, God. So many are! 141 00:10:15,070 --> 00:10:20,790 Oh, Flemming. I was just so looking forward. And Torben had just shown me how to 142 00:10:20,890 --> 00:10:22,650 make the Jutland's Gazette last a whole evening. 143 00:10:23,050 --> 00:10:27,470 Oh, Flemming, I need so much some tenderness and warmth. 144 00:10:27,670 --> 00:10:30,670 You, don't you think we can still manage to save the television program? 145 00:10:31,510 --> 00:10:34,350 Typical. Of two competing channels, neither of them work. 146 00:10:34,950 --> 00:10:37,630 Oh, you know what? Shouldn't we just move upstairs then, eh? 147 00:10:37,750 --> 00:10:39,770 We could read aloud to each other. Come! 148 00:10:41,470 --> 00:10:45,190 Here, for example, is an independent lawyer with 149 00:10:45,290 --> 00:10:48,130 brown eyes and own sauna. 150 00:10:48,330 --> 00:10:50,930 Here, on the other hand, is someone who runs 22 kilometers on the liter. 151 00:10:51,130 --> 00:10:55,610 - Oh, Flemming. Where has the romance gone? - Don't they usually have it in section 3? 152 00:10:58,710 --> 00:11:00,570 - look out there, Flemming - where? 153 00:11:00,710 --> 00:11:02,570 - in the sky - outside? 154 00:11:02,690 --> 00:11:05,450 - it's a shooting star - oh, it look like this? 155 00:11:05,850 --> 00:11:07,090 do you believe in miracles? 156 00:11:07,110 --> 00:11:09,390 - no, not at all - but I do 157 00:11:09,410 --> 00:11:11,390 - good - here and there 158 00:11:11,490 --> 00:11:14,970 we could wish to a... 159 00:11:14,970 --> 00:11:18,870 weekend again 160 00:11:19,070 --> 00:11:21,870 look, the new week has begun to threaten, 161 00:11:22,070 --> 00:11:24,870 who can grasp that? 162 00:11:25,330 --> 00:11:27,270 everyday is possessed 163 00:11:28,070 --> 00:11:30,870 by a lot of spiritless 164 00:11:31,970 --> 00:11:35,090 but you're allowed to dream 165 00:11:35,190 --> 00:11:38,220 wish it always were night. 166 00:11:40,990 --> 00:11:48,220 --- Subtitles by Essery. 2025. ---