'The Guest' Review: Trine Dyrholm Shines in Mads Mengel's Emotionally Charged Danish Family Drama
A review of Mads Mengel's Danish family drama 'The Guest,' premiering at Karlovy Vary film festival. The film follows Karl and Emilie, middle-class parents of a newborn, whose lavish christening party is disrupted by the arrival of Karl's estranged mother (played by Trine Dyrholm), bringing buried family tensions to the surface. The review praises Dyrholm's performance and the film's emotionally powerful, low-key storytelling.
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Family is family, notes a character at the beginning of Danish director Mads Mengel's low-key but emotionally gripping three-hander The Guest
What could possibly go wrong? We're about to find out; not only is there a clue in the title, Mengel also gives us a tantalisingly brief close-up shot of a moving car
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