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Drama

A second chance

Director: Susanne Bier

With: Nicholas Coster- Waldau, Maria Bonnevie, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, May Andersen, Ulrich Thomsen, Peter Haber, Ewa Froling etc.

Denmark, 2014 (102 min)

Someone lights a memorial candle. Someone is whimpering in a toilet floor in the fetal position. The camera sweeps across the ocean’s dark waves of dramatic music. Someone vyssjar a baby to sleep on your shoulder. Something menacing lurking in the middle of the villa idyll.

Susanne Bier know that skillfully build up moods and create a condensed history with just a few easy steps.

We’ve seen it before, and pulled directly in movies like After the wedding, , Things We Lost in the Fire , Brothers or Love you forever .

To help has Susanne Bier has also – in addition to its script favorite since many years tilll bake, Anders Thomas Jensen – additionally gifted composer Johan Söderqvist. And of course the amazing actor Nikolaj Lie Kaas, whose biggest problem here is that he plays the nervige addict and psychopath Tristan with such fervor and frenzy that he outshines the rest of the ensemble. Especially when Maria Bonnevie, whose games comparatively appears pale and sleepwalkers. Especially as she has such an interesting role as a new mother who loses his shovel son and becomes despondent on the verge of insanity.

To portray such a fate as expressive loose, with so laconic mimicry, can not only be attributed to the character’s depression .

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A second chance begins the powerful action, and class perspective promise initially good. The policemen Simon (Ulrich Thomsen) and Andreas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is called an apartment brawl where they meet a stoned Tristan and his girlfriend Sanne (May Andersen). In the dirty fifteen minutes is additionally one more person: the baby Sofus located and screaming in their own feces.

The misery is painful, especially for newly-appointed father Andrew, with a son in exactly the same age. The contrast feels great to own well-ordered house existence where his girlfriend Anna (Bonnevie) engaged in putting up light blue Elsa Beskow-inspired tapetbårder in the nursery.

The introduction’s concentrated chamber play, and fine sketches of complicated relationships, goes under the film once more and more lost in favor of thriller escalation and clean after effect.

confused child who is the story’s central theme, has fascinated people in all times. Already in 1913 illustrated the John Bauer Helena Nybloms thrilling fairytale classics of bortbytingarna Magic Princess – troll who grow up in the castle – and Bianca Maria, The experienced heir abducted and grow up despised by troll mother.

The theme also raises many interesting associations. It defenseless infant allowed this to be the focus. Future Hope. Time and again, the camera zooms into the delicate downy baby crown that smells so good, whose fontanelle has not yet grown together.

sleepless nights, nightmares, colic cries, breastfeeding symbiosis and everyday routines performed in a haze beyond fatigue, where no one knows what is reality and what is fantasy. The anxiety of the pram suddenly be gone, baby stolen. All this is amazing components to build a thriller by.

But most mislaid. Rough-hewn characters paired with disturbing stereotyping, where women must account for the biological, intuitive, while the men portray to action – albeit a greatly misguided one – pull down the impression considerably.

Brothers played Nikolaj Lie Kaas, the younger brother Jannik whose relationship with big brother – played by Ulrich Thomsen – changes radically when he traumatized returning from the UN mission in Afghanistan. Even in A second chance takes relations unexpected trips. Status Conditions will be partly reversed.

The moral is clear as day in the midst of darkness: All is not as it looks. And remember: Anyone can lose control.