A taut, well-paced, absorbing drama about ordinary men caught up in an extraordinary situation - the hijacking of a merchant vessel by Somali pirates - this award-winning Danish feature had a sort of documentary exactitude about its details, especially its characterization, that raised the stakes emotionally and left me completely wrung out, but impressed. The scenes in the boardroom between the CEO of the Danish shipping firm and the British negotiating team he hires to help him are superb, nail-bitingly tense and realistic.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
SFIFF 56: A Hijacking
A taut, well-paced, absorbing drama about ordinary men caught up in an extraordinary situation - the hijacking of a merchant vessel by Somali pirates - this award-winning Danish feature had a sort of documentary exactitude about its details, especially its characterization, that raised the stakes emotionally and left me completely wrung out, but impressed. The scenes in the boardroom between the CEO of the Danish shipping firm and the British negotiating team he hires to help him are superb, nail-bitingly tense and realistic.
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