SummaryA teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by a lie.
SummaryA teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by a lie.
An outstanding lead performance by Mads Mikkelsen (who won best actor for the role at Cannes in 2012) anchors this hauntingly layered and nuanced drama of a man falsely accused of a terrible deed.
A powerful and thought-provoking movie that explores the themes of justice, prejudice, and the power of rumor. It’s a movie that will make you think deeply about the nature of truth and the consequences of our actions. The film is a must-see for anyone who loves great storytelling.
The subject matter, already troubling, is made even more so by Vinterberg’s almost sadomasochistic penchant for propping up Lucas’s martyrdom. He’s gunning for prey, too.
A flawless movie with excellent acting by everyone, excellent directing, excellent writing, excellent character development, strong realistic dialogue, some characters that I liked 10 out of 10 and definitely a lot of characters that I hated 10 out of 10. A flawless movie that definitely deserves to be in my top 15 movies.
Okay.. that was weird. During the watch, my head was full with questions - "What the hell?", "Why everything is going so slowly?", "What was the purpose of that scene to be here". Confusing characters, they were all so damn confused, annoyingly shy and boring. Also you are going to hate that damn annoying little girl.. and everyone as well. Repulsive atmosphere. I guess just bad directing.
When something terrible happens, people have misunderstand, thinking that you have done something so wrong, something real bad, but.. surprisingly you haven't *surprise surprise*, you just don't sit there and watch as a tree how people look at you, tread you and generally thing of you. You fight for your right, you speak, you just do something, maybe!!? I would describe the protagonist's actions as unconvincing and insufficient.
The the end of the movie says, that when you do something wrong, no matter if people are mistaken, when you said something wrong, even if you were angry or very emotional and when it's been a while, you will be remembered with that thing you did or say forever. People recall bad stuff, situations and actions for other people. At the end of the day, nobody wants to be remembered as the bad and nasty guy. So... be careful. :D
Critics are obviously blind or something.
The only reason I don't give this movie a zero is Mads Mikkelsen's flawless performance.Story is laughable and totally unreal-5 year old girl falls in love with mature man??Then false accuse him for sexual abuse??How's that possible,she doesn't even know what **** is at that **** whole town believes her-why?'Because little children don't lie!'-says director of kindergarten.REALLY?? And then for the rest of the movie we have basically a witch hunt like it's not 21st century Denmark but 15th century or something-system does not exist,no psychologist,no police,no law,no press,no anything except mad crowd thirsty for blood on one side and innocent victim on the other.Waste of time.
Production Company
Zentropa Entertainments,
Film i Väst,
Zentropa International Sweden,
Det Danske Filminstitut,
Danmarks Radio (DR),
Eurimages,
Nordisk Film & TV-Fond,
Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI),
Sveriges Television (SVT),
MEDIA Programme of the European Union