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Film · 2012
The Hunt
JagtenA kindergarten worker in a close-knit Danish town becomes the target of suspicion after a child makes a false accusation. As rumor hardens into certainty, he struggles to preserve his relationships and place in the community.
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The film owes a great deal to the masterful performance of Mads Mikkelsen. With restrained intensity, the actor constructs a character of staggering dignity, torn between private pain and the need to keep his head held high in the face of injustice.
Sam Nøllithørpe on Le Bleu du Miroir Vinterberg has created a drama-thriller with the atmospheric grip of a horror film; there are echoes of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs and Lars von Trier's Dogville , but the film has its own exemplary power, maturity and intelligence.
Peter Bradshaw on The Guardian His performance — which won Best Actor at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — is a nuanced portrait of a fundamentally decent man grappling with a world that has decided to treat him indecently.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on RogerEbert.com
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