

Venue: Festival de Cannes - Directors’ Fortnight Steen is captivating even when she does nothing and Soren Malling the embodiment of icy evil. The spot-on performances from the leads elevate the film from simple bathos, even down to the smallest roles. One wishes that Boe had tried to tie things up with the same approach, for example, he and Claro take in filming another cinematic staple, a plane landing, that is original and breathtaking. But the final twist that brings it all together is a letdown, more hackneyed throwaway than emotional punch. Could it be, as Helena and Siri say, that Jacob is obsessively lost in one of his stories again? Do Ali and the really photos exist or are they part of Jacob’s new film? Is it just a coincidence that Mira and Helena bear such a striking resemblance to one another?Īctually, the clues are all there in the beginning, and in something that Helene says early on to Jacob. But the man’s paranoia is so great that soon something seems rotten with Jacob, not just in Denmark.
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The young man’s body disappears and Jacob turns to his sister Siri (Paprika Steen) and her journalist friend (Olaf Johannessen) for help on how to publish the photos.īoe reconstructs Ali’s return home through flashbacks as Jacob grows increasingly terrified for his and Helen’s lives at the hands of the government. Before Jacob can go for help, Ali begs him to take his bag, in which Jacob finds photos of Iraqi prisoners tortured by Danish soldiers that Ali had smuggled back into the country with him. The men’s destinies cross when Jacob hits Ali with his car on a deserted country road near Jacob’s house.

Ali too tells Mira that there is nothing to worry about. In a parallel story, a young man of Arab descent, Ali (Igor Rado), is recruited by the Danish army to work as an interpreter in Iraq, leaving behind his anxious girlfriend Mira (Ozlem Saglanmak). Helena is worried that something will go wrong with the final stage of the adoption but Jacob reassures her that everything will be fine. Writer-director Jacob (Jens Albinus) is struggling to finish the script of his latest film just days before it goes into production, while he and his wife Helena (Marijana Jankovic) are on the verge of adopting a little boy from Eastern Europe. For the film itself, Boe saturates the colors as always and DoP Manuel Alberto Claro occasionally and effectively uses a tilt-shift camera to render certain locations unreal and model-like. My only structure was filming and being on set.The sleek visuals serve more than an aesthetic purpose, from the open credits imposed against bleach white models of houses, buildings, a movie theatre even, with tiny white figurines in various tableaux.

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