Written by Tobias Lindholm and Thomas Vinterberg
Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp and Lasse Folgelstrøm
A Kindergarten teacher's life is torn apart when one of his students tells an innocent lie that causes the entire town and his closest friends question what kind of man he is.
I'm going to get really pretentious here for a moment as an opener, so bear with me. They say that art is any form of expression that creates an emotional response. If that is the case, this film is pure art. Through it's entirety, I felt more emotion than several thousands of the movies I have seen combined.
Happiness, nostalgia, glee, confusion, anger, rage, content, fear and rage again. All within the span of an hour and fifty-five minutes. It is a case study in how people are treated when false accusations against them blow out of control, and how they try to get their life back to some sense of normalcy, while the entire world fights against them. Filled with dramatic irony, I spent the entire film furious at all of the secondary characters.
At points you just want to reach into your screen and scream at them, telling them they don't know what they're talking about, but you just have to watch and let it play out itself. Unequivocally a painfully emotional yet beautiful film. This could perhaps be by favorite foreign language film of all time.
My Rating: 10/10
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