Toronto Film Review: ‘You Disappear’
A mix of arid courtroom testimony and earnestly plodding dramatic conflict, all of which presumably worked better in Christian Jungersen's original novel.
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Scandi Stars Join Mikkel Norgaard’s ‘The Absent One’
Danish thesp Pilou Asbaek (“A Hijacking”) and Swedish actor David Dencik (“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”) have joined the cast of Mikkel Norgaard’s dark-edged crimer “The Absent One,” the sequel to…
Locarno Film Review: ‘The Keeper of Lost Causes’
A slickly made though utterly predictable Danish suspenser from director Mikkel Norgaard.
Fares joins ‘Keeper of Lost Causes’
Swedish thesp Fares Fares has been added to the cast of helmer Mikkel Norgaard's thriller "The Keeper of Lost Causes," an adaptation of Jussi Adler-Olsen's bestseller.
Review: ‘Beast’
An obsessive, destructive love transforms a caring husband into a bloodthirsty "Beast" in this perversely fascinating psychodrama from Danish helmer Christoffer Boe ("Reconstruction").
Review: ‘The Whistleblower’
A tense, focused piece of storytelling with a powerful sense of empathy.
Review: ‘Angels & Demons’
Science and religion collide, and eventually reach a state of peaceful coexistence, in "Demons."
Review: ‘The Half Life of Timofey Berezin’
A distinctly Russian cocktail of high drama and low comedy in which a nuclear plant worker mistakenly depends on an inept low-life to sell some purloined plutonium, pic is a U.S.-funded, Euro-shot…
Review: ‘Adam’s Apples’
A funny, politically incorrect and, somewhere deep down, thoughtful black comedy, "Adam's Apples" is the third and final film in helmer-writer Anders Thomas Jensen's excellent trilogy centered on…
Review: ‘The Green Butchers’
A macabre comedy with strong echoes of "Sweeney Todd," "The Green Butchers" will be either a turn-on or turn-off, depending on one's sense of humor. This second outing as director by screenwriter…
Review: ‘Reconstruction’
In "Reconstruction," a Danish photographer doesn't know whether he's coming or going after a possibly pre-ordained chance encounter with a Swedish woman. Valiant attempt to innovate in the well-trod…
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