One Way To Denmark in many ways typifies those very British/BBC low-budget human stories in a very positive way. Rafe Spall is excellent as the downtrodden and despairing divorced unemployed man trapped in an austerity-riven rain-soaked Welsh town, who dares to enact an unexpected way to improve his lot in Denmark. The first half paints an overwhelmingly miserable picture of this depressed man's everyday life, which makes his escapades in Denmark feel somewhat slight by comparison, but the film is ultimately warm-hearted, the travelogue aspects are pleasantly realised - Spall's reaction to a public urinal is priceless - and the central performance carries the film effectively.
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