Directed by Gustav Möller (his first feature film) and starring Jakob Cedergren (The Sandhamn Murders (tv series); The Sweeney: Paris; The Gift; Those Who Kill), Jessica Dinnage (The Man) and Omar Shargawi (Letter for Amina; Al Medina).
Thriller; 85 mins; 12+; in Danish with sub-titles in FR & NL.
An intense thriller with the cameras 100% featuring Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren), a police officer working in an emergency call centre, coming to the end of a shift.
He takes a call from Iben (Jessica Dinnage) who says she has been kidnapped. While Asger contacts the relevant mobile units to try to intercept the car, he does some sleuthing himself and discovers that Iben's young daughter is home alone with her younger brother after her estranged parents left following a heated argument.
A masterful thriller with twists aplenty, with the audience being drip-fed facts and let alone to interpret what has been said, and therefore draw their own conclusions along the way.
In drawing comparisons with Stephen Knight's 2013 film "Locke, starring Tom Hardy, in which the camera is focussed 100% on one subject as they make various calls of their phone, The Guilty is of a similar ilk, but in the vein of a Danish Noir...
Intense and gripping, you will be on the edge of your seat throughout as the main story plays out, helped by a number of sub-plots which aid the character development, all of which are images portrayed in your mind.
No wonder it has won awards at the Sundance Film Festival, the Seattle International Film Festival, the Rotterdam International Film Festival and others...
