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When Lucas’ (Mads Mikkelsen) job as a high school teacher ends abruptly with the school’s closing he secures a position at the local kindergarten helping out around the place and entertaining the children. His off hours are spent hanging out with his drinking buddies on hunting weekends or arguing with his ex-wife over the shared custody of their teenage son, Markus (Lasse Fogelstrøm). He’s even taken the tentative step of beginning a romance with a young woman named Nadja (Alexandre Rapaport) who reminds him of the joys of physical contact. But it’s physical contact of another kind that shatters his existence and sends his life into a tailspin. His best friend’s daughter, Klara (Annika Wedderkopp), develops a crush on him thanks to his kind smile, and time spent with him at school and home, but when he wisely and gently deflects her affection she strikes out with unintentional force. An...

Title: The Hunt Director: Thomas Vinterberg Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lasse Fogelstrøm, Annika Wedderkopp, Alexandra Rapaport, Anne Louise Hassing, Susse Wold An unsettling, forthright drama about a man falsely accused of sexual child abuse, Danish import “The Hunt” is anchored by a painfully haunting turn from Mads Mikkelsen. Drawing from the McMartin Preschool scandal in Southern California, and similar cases of child abuse hysteria across the United States in the 1980s and ’90s, co-writer-director Thomas Vinterberg fashions a darkly gripping tale in which presumed guilt spreads like a virus, engulfing an entire small town. Having recently lost his job as a secondary school teacher, the divorced Lucas (Mikkelsen) [ Read More ]

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Title: The Hunt (Jagten) Magnolia Pictures Director: Thomas Vinterberg Screenwriter: Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Lasse Fogelstrøm Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 6/20/13 Opens: July 12, 2013 While I was walking my cairn terrier one day, a five-year-old approached with his father and asked if he could pet the dog. No problem there. The terrier licked the lad’s hand, resulting in the kid’s crying to his dad, “He bit me; he bit me!” Without even looking for evidence of the slightest scratch on his son’s hand, the father gave me a dirty look—I thought he’d come out swinging. But he walked away in [ Read More ]

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Well, we already knew that Thomas Vinterberg‘s latest project The Hunt is quite disturbing one. But we never knew exactly how much.

Now, when we have two new clips from the whole thing – the mystery is finally solved, this definitely looks like a very tough-to-watch drama. But we still recommend you to check out the rest of this report…

Written and directed by Vinterberg, this movie stars great Mads Mikkelsen as a former school teacher named Lucas, who has been forced to start over after a tough divorce and the loss of his job.

And just when things are starting to go his way, he gets falsely accused of molesting a kindergarten age student. That’s more than enough to throw the small community into a collective state of hysteria.

The lie is spreading and Lucas is forced to fight a lonely fight for his life and dignity, and...

★★★★☆ Danish director Thomas Vinterberg enters the chase for the Palme d'Or with The Hunt (Jagten, 2012), a tense thriller about a primary school teacher unjustly accused of paedophilia. Mads Mikkelsen plays Lucas, a recent divorcee in the midst of a bitter custody dispute over his teenage son Marcus (Lasse Fogelstrøm), who despite this enjoys a close rapport with his students. Klara (Annika Wedderkop), the five-year-old daughter of his best friend Theo (Thomas Bo Larsen), feels particularly close to her kindly tutor.

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