The question thus becomes not whether Merete intended to kill herself but if the cops will arrive in time to save her as she grows weaker and weaker from years of imprisonment in a pressure tank. Through clever plotting and mise-en-scene, the right information is moved into place while crucial faces or connections are kept from the audience until the final act, which takes place in the villain’s country lair.

As soon as they’ve unofficially reopened Merete’s case, the second storyline - which doesn’t run parallel time-wise for most of the film but which editors Morten Egholmand Martin Shade integrate with clarity - follows Merete’s true ordeal. In the first, Morck and Assad hunt for clues. The case that piques the interest of the duo (which is less reliant on Assad’s prodding than in the book) is a cold case from five years earlier, when a successful politician, Merete ( Sonja Richter) supposedly jumped off a ferry to kill herself, leaving her mentally disabled younger brother, Uffe ( Mikkel Boe Folsgaard, the King from A Royal Affair) behind.įollowing the structure of the novel, Arcel constructs two parallel narratives. The believably mismatched Assad (of Syrian origin in the novel, which goes unmentioned here) and Morck find themselves in the basement of their police station, which gives them the advantage of not being in the sightline of Jacobson (veteran actor Soren Pilmark), Morck’s boss who’s made it clear Morck’s appointment to the new department is intended to keep the hothead away from his colleagues, who blame him for the shooting - seen in the prolog - which not only sidelined Mork but killed one officer and paralyzed another. It had its world premiere in Locarno and should appeal to outlets looking for quality genre titles with franchise potential. 8 and has already sold to numerous other European territories. The adaptation, directed by Mikkel Norgaard ( Klown, TV series Borgen) and scripted by top local screenwriter Nikolaj Arcel (the original-language Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, A Royal Affair, which he also directed), will be released locally Oct. Paramount Streaming Loss Widens to $511M as Paramount+ Hits 60M Subs

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