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King's Game (2004)
Director: Nikolai Arcel
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From Time Out London
This Danish political/conspiracy thriller about the poisonous (and illegal) lengths politicians will go to to snake their way up the greasy pole is so plausible as to give genuine cause for concern. The excellent Pilmark (from Von Trier’s ‘The Kingdom’) is suberbly frightening as the scruple-free aspirant leader of the Centre Party whom sympathetic new Parliamentary Correspondent Torp (Berthelsen) suspects of being in cahoots with sinister Press Secretary Mikkelson (Peter Schou) in manipulating the events following the car-crash of their leader. Arcel arguably loads the slate somewhat in his good guy/bad guy characterisations and soft-peddles his interest in political critique in favour of thriller conventions as things progress, but he does throw in some interesting reflections on generational conflict and also does keep resolutely on the side of the angels.Author: WH
Time Out London Issue 1783: October 20-27, 2004
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- Mike Kearley said...
- Posted on Jan 15 2008 08:59 Excellent film slightly spoilt by crap subtitling [should have used black generated method as used many years ago by the Beeb], lack of knowledge of Danish, and similarity of quite a few of the male leads looking so alike [long heads, good looking and short hair].
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Cast & crew
Director: Nikolai Arcel
Producer: Meta Louise Foldager
Cast: Nastja Arcel, Søren Pilmark, Anders W Berthelsen, Ulrik Torp, Erik Dreier Jensen, Lone Kjeldsen, Nicolas Bro, Henrik Moll full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 100 mins
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