An impossible tragedy, a movie that confounds all expectations and is full of a terrible suspense. You have never seen a cop movie like this before. I’m “biast” (pro): big fan of Susanne Bier and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
I can’t tell you too much about this movie, but I can tell you this: you have never seen a cop movie like this before. It takes on the near-guise of tough-guy crime drama we’re all too familiar with, but A Second Chance, from Danish director Susanne Bier (Serena) and screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen (they previously worked together on Love Is All You Need), ends up a demanding challenge to some deeply ingrained preconceived notions about fundamental human goodness and badness, of moral rights and wrongs, of the foundations of love and parenthood. This...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
I can’t tell you too much about this movie, but I can tell you this: you have never seen a cop movie like this before. It takes on the near-guise of tough-guy crime drama we’re all too familiar with, but A Second Chance, from Danish director Susanne Bier (Serena) and screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen (they previously worked together on Love Is All You Need), ends up a demanding challenge to some deeply ingrained preconceived notions about fundamental human goodness and badness, of moral rights and wrongs, of the foundations of love and parenthood. This...
- 3/23/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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