Rotten
[Bornedal] steers his mistaken-identity story in a more generic direction.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Just Another Love Story
What do you do when wrong feels right?
2007 · 1h 40m · Not Rated
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Ole Bornedal
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Ole Bornedal Director
- Anders W. Berthelsen as Jonas
- Rebecka Hemse as Julia
- Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Sebastian
- Charlotte Fich as Mette
- Dejan Čukić as Frank
- Ewa Fröling as Mrs. Castlund
- Bent Mejding as Mr. Castlund
- Josephine Raahauge as Monica Castlund
- Timm Vladimir as Magnus Castlund
- Ditte Hansen as Kirsten
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
74%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Ambitious cross-cutting and occasional bursts of strident music hint at psychologically complex parallels and readings that the film fails to deliver.
Wally Hammond, Time Out
Fresh
It's good, nasty fun until it gets boxed in by its own contrivances toward the end.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Fresh
You can see this Danish offering as a sardonic update of familiar noir material, or simply as the story of the midlife crisis of a guy who wishes -- or dreams, or dreads -- that he's living out a grand drama. There are pleasures to be had either way.
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
I suspect anyone who went for last year's foreign-language pulp fiction of choice, Tell No One, will be rewarded by Ole Bornedal's latest.
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
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