No. 16 (2019) The Guilty. Feb 23rd.

Film No 16 (2019) Feb. 23rd.  10:45 AM  LUNA PALACE Leederville. 

"Does the person you are with know you have called us?". (Asger shapes his questions so the answers won't raise suspicion of the person Iben is with).

In the vain of Locke (2013), The Guilty takes us on an 88 minute real-time, fly on the wall, journey with the very complicated Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren) sitting, under sufferance, in the Copenhagen police emergency call centre. The power of imagination can be forgotten in modern day film making but not in The Guilty. We begin our journey with Asger, there's something on his mind, he receives a distress call; suddenly he's a pivotal player in a kidnapping. From the outset we make similar assumptions to Asger in our interpretation of what's happened. The voices, brilliantly mixed, give us a picture of the melstrom swirling through the ears of Asger. Every minute that passes, every tight close-up, every subtle pause in conversation, The Guilty is not everything it seems. Could this 88 minute interlude into Asger's already complicated life represent a point at which the recalibration of his moral compass is inevitable? Will we ever know? 10GUMS.