2007 · thriller · crime · drama
Just Another Love Story
Directed by Ole Bornedal1h 40m2007
Jonas is a Copenhagen homicide scene photographer, happily married, with two kids. One day, his car stalls, another car slams into him, runs head on into a third car and flips into the ditch. The other driver, Julia, is critically injured. He visits her in the hospital and is greeted by her family, who assumes he must be the Sebastian she told them about, the new fiance she met in Vietnam.
Our read: Just Another Love Story (2007) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- cold
- twisty
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