Reviewed by Jeremy Mathews
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed by: Susanne Bier
Written by: Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, William Jøhnk Juels Nielsen and Markus Rygaard
“In a Better World” is a testament to cinema’s power. With an overwhelming assault of ideas and emotions, Susanne Bier’s film ruminates on the tyranny of violence, the challenges of nonviolence and the desire for revenge. Its characters are so deeply felt and their decisions so crucial that it’s impossible not to become invested in the story.
It starts as a friendship develops between Elias (Markus Rygaard), an awkward, bullied schoolboy, and Christian (William Jøhnk Juels Nielsen), a new classmate who arrives in Denmark from London after his mother’s death. They quickly bond when Christian beats up the reigning school bully with a bike pump and threatens him with a knife, telling him to...
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed by: Susanne Bier
Written by: Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, William Jøhnk Juels Nielsen and Markus Rygaard
“In a Better World” is a testament to cinema’s power. With an overwhelming assault of ideas and emotions, Susanne Bier’s film ruminates on the tyranny of violence, the challenges of nonviolence and the desire for revenge. Its characters are so deeply felt and their decisions so crucial that it’s impossible not to become invested in the story.
It starts as a friendship develops between Elias (Markus Rygaard), an awkward, bullied schoolboy, and Christian (William Jøhnk Juels Nielsen), a new classmate who arrives in Denmark from London after his mother’s death. They quickly bond when Christian beats up the reigning school bully with a bike pump and threatens him with a knife, telling him to...
- 3/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Jeremy Mathews
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed by: Susanne Bier
Written by: Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, William Jøhnk Juels Nielsen and Markus Rygaard
“In a Better World” is a testament to cinema’s power. With an overwhelming assault of ideas and emotions, Susanne Bier’s film ruminates on the tyranny of violence, the challenges of nonviolence and the desire for revenge. Its characters are so deeply felt and their decisions so crucial that it’s impossible not to become invested in the story.
It starts as a friendship develops between Elias (Markus Rygaard), an awkward, bullied schoolboy, and Christian (William Jøhnk Juels Nielsen), a new classmate who arrives in Denmark from London after his mother’s death. They quickly bond when Christian beats up the reigning school bully with a bike pump and threatens him with a knife, telling him to...
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed by: Susanne Bier
Written by: Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, William Jøhnk Juels Nielsen and Markus Rygaard
“In a Better World” is a testament to cinema’s power. With an overwhelming assault of ideas and emotions, Susanne Bier’s film ruminates on the tyranny of violence, the challenges of nonviolence and the desire for revenge. Its characters are so deeply felt and their decisions so crucial that it’s impossible not to become invested in the story.
It starts as a friendship develops between Elias (Markus Rygaard), an awkward, bullied schoolboy, and Christian (William Jøhnk Juels Nielsen), a new classmate who arrives in Denmark from London after his mother’s death. They quickly bond when Christian beats up the reigning school bully with a bike pump and threatens him with a knife, telling him to...
- 3/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Javier Bardem in Alejandro González-Iñárritu's Biutiful (top); Stefania Sandrelli, Valerio Mastandrea in Paolo Virzi's The First Beautiful Thing (middle); Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm in Susanne Bier's In a Better World (photo by Per Arnesen) (bottom) Bal / Honey (Turkey), Semih Kaplanoglu Biutiful (Mexico), Alejandro González-Iñárritu Carancho (Argentina), Pablo Trapero In a Better World (Denmark), Susanne Bier Mamma Gogo (Iceland), Fridrik Thor Fridriksson Of Gods and Men (France), Xavier Beauvois Outside the Law (Algeria), Rachid Bouchareb La prima cosa bella / The First Beautiful Thing (Italy), Paolo Virzi Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Thailand), Apichatpong Weerasethakul Oscar 2011: Why Best Foreign Language Film Nominations Are Hard to Predict Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cannes Film Festival winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Thailand), Semih Kaplanoglu's Berlin winner Bal / Honey (Turkey), and Alejandro González-Iñárritu's Biutiful (Mexico), which earned Javier Bardem the Best Actor Award at...
- 10/15/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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