2014 · thriller
The Absent One
Directed by Mikkel Nørgaard1h 56m2014
Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was convicted of murder, Carl and his partner Assad soon realize that there is something in the case resolution that is terribly wrong.
Our read: The Absent One (2014) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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