Jagten
Die Jagd
It is 14 years since Thomas Vinterberg burst into view with his excoriating family drama FESTEN, which launched the minimalist Dogme movement and became a much-talked-about cultural phenomenon on its own account. Well, Vinterberg really has come storming back with JAGTEN, a reminder of his superb gift for unsettling collective drama: it is forthright, powerful, composed and directed with clarity and overwhelming force, yet capable of great subtlety and nuance.
The lead performance from Mads Mikkelsen is outstanding: he is Lucas, a teacher who's having to work temporarily as a kindergarten assistant due to a school closure, recently divorced, but with many good friends in a close-knit community. But things go horribly wrong for Lucas when an accusation is made against him by a child, and the situation escalates out of control. With Mikkelsen at its centre, JAGTEN becomes an unbearably tense drama-thriller. (Peter Bradshaw)
In the presence of Thomas Vinterberg (on Nov 6th).
- Mads Mikkelsen - Lucas
- Thomas Bo Larsen - Theo
- Lars Ranthe - Bruun
- Susse Wold - Grethe
- Anne Louise Hassing - Agnes
- Thomas Vinterberg
- Tobias Lindholm
- Charlotte Bruus Christensen
- Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen
- Anne Østerud
- Nikolaj Egelund
- Torben Stig Nielsen
- Manon Rasmussen
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