2013 · thriller · mystery · crime
The Keeper of Lost Causes
Directed by Mikkel Nørgaard1h 33m2013
Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her brother were traveling aboard a ferry five years ago.
Our read: The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive thriller · mystery · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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