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An seemingly ordinary man must face the consequences of his own actions in this drama from Swedish filmmaker Jesper Ganslandt. Krister (Olle Sarri) is a middle-aged man who makes his living as a driving instructor. One morning, he wakes up still wearing his clothes from the night before and covered with blood; seemingly unaware of what happened, he cleans himself up, changes his clothes and leaves for work. As the day wears on, the terrible events of the previous day gradually fade into his
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This artful examination of a very dark soul isn't always easy to watch. But the film's bleak chill is mesmerising.
It's a devastating portrait of a man on the edge of madness, and not easy to forget.
Sarri's great performance is what will keep you watching.
Existential Scandinavian stuff, it holds the attention.
This is a difficult, painful film, and hardly for everyone. It left me in a gibbering foetal ball in a corner of the cinema foyer. But in Jesper Ganslandt, Sweden has a new star director.
Jesper Ganslandt's film strikes me as an exercise in morbid intensity for its own sake, but it's certainly well done.
The Ape pulls no punches on its fresh approach on how to deal and live with the consequences of our action.
Perfect in its duration, perfect in its ending, and chillingly perfect in its central performance, The Ape plays off the banalities of life against a constant, underlying sense of dread.
This is a chilling, frantic, mysterious and thought provoking film and while a casual aire of terror is present from the opening scene, it is driven by deeply emotional feelings. Olle Sarri plays a man on the edge of oblivion and who doesn't really know what he is doing or how he got there. His reactions to this, as
November 15, 2011
The Ape tem como objectivo estudar um homem, aparentemente comum, com sérios danos psicológicos depois de, num dia vulgar, ter sido autor de uma chacina com a sua família. Não é um filme que vá agradar a todo o público, uma vez que segue o seu enredo de uma forma bastante diferente do que é habitual ver noutros filmes,
May 25, 2011
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