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The Hunt (Facebook)
What's it about:
This Danish-language psychological drama focuses on the difficult subject of child abuse and the effects a false accusation of such a crime can bring about.Mads Mikkelsen plays Lucas, a man who finally gets his life in order after a tough divorce. He now has a new girlfriend, a new job as a kindergarten teacher and is re-establishing a relationship with his son, Marcus. But everything changes when a terrible lie is told - Lucas is a child molester. Although false, the news quickly spreads and ignites a witch hunt, threatening to destroy the life he worked so hard to build.
What the critics say:
You leave The Hunt unsettled in the best sense. Its images and implications are likely to stay in your head a long time.
- Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Through it all, we see an idyllic-looking community, where glorious fall colors fade into twinkling December snow - a pretty frame for a terrifying story of a modern-day witch hunt.
- Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt conveys the sinister swirl of persecution more vividly than any film I can remember.
- Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
The Hunt's inexorability feels derived more from thematic or ideological concerns than any organic necessity.
- James Adams, Globe and Mail
This Danish-language psychological drama focuses on the difficult subject of child abuse and the effects a false accusation of such a crime can bring about.Mads Mikkelsen plays Lucas, a man who finally gets his life in order after a tough divorce. He now has a new girlfriend, a new job as a kindergarten teacher and is re-establishing a relationship with his son, Marcus. But everything changes when a terrible lie is told - Lucas is a child molester. Although false, the news quickly spreads and ignites a witch hunt, threatening to destroy the life he worked so hard to build.
What the critics say:
You leave The Hunt unsettled in the best sense. Its images and implications are likely to stay in your head a long time.
- Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Through it all, we see an idyllic-looking community, where glorious fall colors fade into twinkling December snow - a pretty frame for a terrifying story of a modern-day witch hunt.
- Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt conveys the sinister swirl of persecution more vividly than any film I can remember.
- Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
The Hunt's inexorability feels derived more from thematic or ideological concerns than any organic necessity.
- James Adams, Globe and Mail
