R (2011)
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 9
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 1
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Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 1
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The prisoner R arrives to Denmark's toughest prison, where he is to serve a sentence for violent assault. R is reduced to a number, a letter, just another inmate. The prison is a parallel world filled with rules, honor, and debts. A world, in which bars cover the windows and blood stains the floor. R is placed in the most hardcore ward. Here he must find his place in the system, learn to navigate, and fight for survival. navigate, and fight for survival. -- (C) Olive Films
Jun 17, 2011 Limited
Aug 8, 2011
Olvie Films
Cast
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Pilou Asbaek
Rune [R] -
Dulfi Al-Jaburi
Rashid -
Roland Møller
The Mason -
Jacob Gredsted
Carsten -
Kim Winther
Prison Guard Kim -
Omar Shargawi
Bazhir -
Sune Nørgaard
Sune -
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Dulfi Al-Jabouri
Rashid -
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Who knows better about prison life than someone who has experienced it firsthand?
Top Critic"R" is not about justice or redemption. You couldn't even call it a protest film about prison conditions, but it is very well made and persuasively acted.
Directors-screenwriters Lindholm and Noer are careful not to let the audience know more than their protagonist does, keeping them in the nerve-wrecking state of uncertainty and fear.
The film's brilliance starts to surpass its brutality.
Lindholm and Noer attempt to make up in raw emotion what their film lacks in context, an approach good for a surprising amount of mileage, until the project finally chokes on its own inevitable nihilism.
The helmers employ claustrophobic closeups to mirror the experience of an inmate arriving at the harsh institution and finding his options limited by more than just locked doors.
The story charts an expected path, but the acting is quite solid and the movie's ethnic divisions are solidly elucidated without ever becoming overbearing or pretentious.
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Since R focuses on complete mental and physical fragmentation, it rightfully separates the desolate locale based on narrative focus.
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Foreign Titles
- R: Hit First, Hit Hardest (DE)
- R: Hit First Hit Hardest (UK)
