

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
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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