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.
Acting
Berthelsen's downward spiral from everyman to something unrecognizable.
Direction
Bornedal tightens the vise so gradually you barely notice you're gasping.
Writing
The title's irony burns brighter with every scene.
Director
Ole Bornedal
Anders W. Berthelsen
Jonas
Rebecka Hemse
Julia
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Sebastian
Charlotte Fich
Mette
Dejan Čukić
Frank
Ewa Fröling
Mrs. Castlund
Bent Mejding
Mr. Castlund
Josephine Raahauge
Monica Castlund
Timm Vladimir
Magnus Castlund
Ditte Hansen
Kirsten
Fanny Leander Bornedal
Clara
Jannie Faurschou
Dr. Irma
Karin Jagd
Nurse
Niels Anders Thorn
Dr. Henriques
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bornedal remade his own 2007 Danish hit for American audiences in 2014 as The Possession—this remains his superior original vision.
The film belongs to a wave of mid-2000s Danish thrillers exploring masculine crisis through genre, alongside works by Susanne Bier and Nicolas Winding Refn.
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