The Hunt (2012) - March 23rd 2013

[Buddy Ackerman]

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The Hunt

One of my favourite films of last year, The Hunt is a Danish film about a nursery school teacher (Mads Mikkelsen) in a small community who finds his life unravelling after a lie told about him by a 5 year old girl snowballs amongst the residents.

Incredibly tense, full of gut-punches, some nice dark humour and some incredible acting (Mikkelsen is superb and the young actress playing the girl is fantastic) it is, in my eyes, the best drama of last year. Surprisingly timely, the themes of paranoia, of protecting children above all else, of mob thinking and the way accusations turn to assumptions turn to given truth - and the damage it can do - is scarily realistic. I can't recommend it highly enough.