But his Everyman-ish qualities serve him well in "Man on a Ledge, " director Asger Leth's wryly twisted caper film.

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People like Asger Jorn, a Danish artist, proposed to redesign cities so that they had separate bizarre, happy, sinister, tragic and useful quarters that people could drift in and out of.

ECONOMIST: May 1968