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- 2018
- Gustav Möller
- 84 mins
- 15
Summary
Crime thriller starring Jakob Cedergren and Jessica Dinnage. Copenhagen police officer Asger Holm struggles with his temper and has been suspended from active duty. While manning the emergency calls desk, he receives a dispatch from a kidnapped woman and becomes obsessed with saving her.
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
Andrew Collins
Recalling the one-man-in-a-fix conceptual commitment of Steven Knight's Locke and Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, this tautly handled Danish procedural takes place in two rooms in a police call centre. We will spend the next 85 minutes in the close company of Asger (Jakob Cedergren), a short-tempered officer on light duties pending an inquiry. Information is carefully drip-fed by director/co-writer Gustav Möller, as our man deals with emergencies ranging from a mugging to a cyclist with a knee injury, until a call comes in from terrified abductee Iben (unseen but brilliantly played by Jessica Dinnage), forcing Asger to turn desktop detective. It would be a crime to pre-empt the ensuing narrative twists, which continually defy expectation. The minimal sound design is superb - water bubbling through an office cooler, Alka-Seltzer in a glass, a distant siren - while the gruelling ordeal is leavened only by a lyrical conversation about an aquarium. At one point, Asger is illuminated only by a red incoming-call light, as if he's entered hell. What might have been dismissed as a radio play is actually closer to pure cinema. A Hollywood remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal followed in 2021.
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rolenameAsger HolmJakob CedergrenIbenJessica DinnageMichaelJohan Olsen
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rolenameDirectorGustav Möller
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2018-10-26
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