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Babycall

  • 2011
  • 12
  • 1h 36m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
6.2K
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Noomi Rapace and Vetle Qvenild Werring in Babycall (2011)
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HorrorThriller

After a baby monitor picks up another channel, Anna begins reliving the nightmare she'd recently escaped.After a baby monitor picks up another channel, Anna begins reliving the nightmare she'd recently escaped.After a baby monitor picks up another channel, Anna begins reliving the nightmare she'd recently escaped.

  • Director
    • Pål Sletaune
  • Writer
    • Pål Sletaune
  • Stars
    • Noomi Rapace
    • Kristoffer Joner
    • Vetle Qvenild Werring
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.7/10
    6.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Pål Sletaune
    • Writer
      • Pål Sletaune
    • Stars
      • Noomi Rapace
      • Kristoffer Joner
      • Vetle Qvenild Werring
    • 25User reviews
    • 90Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 7 wins & 8 nominations total

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    Noomi Rapace
    Noomi Rapace
    • Anna
    Kristoffer Joner
    Kristoffer Joner
    • Helge
    Vetle Qvenild Werring
    • Anders
    Stig R. Amdam
    • Ole
    • (as Stig Amdam)
    Maria Bock
    Maria Bock
    • Grete
    Torkil Høeg
    • Nabogutten
    • (as Torkil Johannes Swensen Høeg)
    Henrik Rafaelsen
    Henrik Rafaelsen
    • Mannlig doktor
    Tom Hugo Nielsen
    • Skoleinspektør
    Mona Engh
    • Sekretær
    Eva Zeidler
    • Helges mor
    Kaia Varjord
    • Politikvinne
    Camilla Augusta Hallan
    • Kvinnelig doktor
    • (as Camilla Augusta S. Hallan)
    Haakon Gjerløw
    • Butikkansatt 1
    Frank Jørstad
    • Butikkansatt 2
    Bjørn Moan
    Bjørn Moan
    • Nabomannen
    Birgitte Nordby
    • Nabokvinnen
    Ursel Klepser
    • Sykepleier 1
    Nicole Spieler
    • Sykepleier 2
    • Director
      • Pål Sletaune
    • Writer
      • Pål Sletaune
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    User reviews25

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    Surreal Thriller with a strange vibe...

    With the huge success of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and later on Prometheus, Noomi Rapace has become a well established actress, and if you are interested in seeing her in something closer to her home you can check out this movie. Directed by Pål Sletaune (Next Door, You Really Got Me) it has that strange and almost surreal atmosphere (almost surreal, more like super surreal), so besides the Norwegian vibe you have the surreal one too. Two phenomenal leads, Noomi Rapace and Kristoffer Joner create a perfect setting for Babycall. While Kristoffer didn't have much transitions to go to, Noomi here had the opportunity to take us on a journey to a mind of a single mother and she did it perfectly. We can understand different states of her mind, without any words spoken and follow her mental state as the story develops.

    Anna and her son Anders have just moved into a new apartment after her husband tried to kill Anders. They now live in hiding and await the final court decision about the custody of Anders. Anna, afraid for her sons wellbeing is overprotective and is practically glued to Anders. This will be a problem when it's time for him to go back to school, and she nervously accepts this only after being chased away from school grounds. Still in fear that her husband will find them she goes to a store and buys a baby monitor. There she will meet Helge, a shy salesman troubled by his mothers illness and two of them will become friends. Trouble starts when Anna starts hearing something that sounds like an abuse and brutal beating over the baby monitor. After consulting with Helge she discovers that this is an interference from another baby monitor only 50 meters away. This is the same time when mind will start playing tricks on her, making it extremely difficult for her to get to the bottom of this...

    Babycall is a strange movie, and while some might find it a bit slow, it is quite rewarding if you watch it 'till the end. It is a different take on the same thriller/horror subject so popular in Hollywood, but it definitely has its flaws. One of the main ones is the sudden turn in mood towards the end of the movie, and relatively confusing story with the heavy lifting left to the viewer.

    Movie recommendations site: Rabbit-Reviews.com - Only movies worth watching
    Dethcharm

    Arctic Cold...

    THE MONITOR stars Noomi Rapace as Anna, a mother who is in hiding in order to keep her son safe from his abusive father. This all seems straightforward, but it's not.

    Anna may be suffering from some severe mental issues that cloud the situation dramatically. Much of what occurs could be real or illusory. We're given pieces of the puzzle, only to have the puzzle itself continue to expand.

    This film has an icy sense of dread and uneasiness right out of the gate. Anna lives in an enormous, box-like apartment complex set in a terminally grey atmosphere of heavy, perpetual gloom.

    Ms. Rapace is fantastic in her harried, paranoiac role. She elicits both sympathy and a touch of fear from the viewer.

    If you enjoy suspenseful, psychological-thrillers filled with mystery, then this should keep you guessing until the end...
    8spookyrat1

    Not Judging the Book By Its Cover!

    I came to Babycall really not knowing anything much at all about the film. Half way through I was just about ready to give up on it. As an ex-teacher I'm really not that much into films about over-possessive, paranoid, helicopter parents doting over their frequently brattish offspring. I've been there, done that, enough times to last way more than this lifetime. And that's what Babycall seemed to be about. Noomi Rapace playing (against her famed Lisbeth Solander persona) this demented, self-possessed single mother of an 8 year-old boy, attempting to escape the legal clutches of an unseen, supposedly violent father, with the very much qualified assistance of a couple of children's services officers.

    Let's be clear here too, that Rapace is very convincing in the role which has her onscreen, a great deal of the first half of this Norwegian film, which is probably better summed up by its US title "The Monitor". Ever so gradually some unexpected supernatural elements are added to this dysfunctional family drama to change the substance and core elements of the film completely. Crucial to this slow-burning metamorphosis is the role of Kristoffer Joner who plays an electrical appliances retail salesperson, who appears somewhat oddly sympathetic to the mother's continual quandaries.

    I don't wish to spoil much more of the narrative, except to say that's it's pretty clear that even a number of reviewers on these pages haven't fully understood Helge's (Joner) role, or abilities, in what plays out. If they had they wouldn't be rabbiting on about plot holes that don't exist. Suffice to say the third act of Babycall contains a couple of doozy little twists that I certainly (thankfully) never saw coming and which completely change the complexion of earlier parts of the film and the way we may have initially viewed them.

    Director Pål Sletaune deserves plaudits for the way he has constructed Babycall. It's a creepily intriguing movie, but one that eschews the cinematic traditions of nocturnal, dimly-lit scenes and haunting soundtracks. Much of the action takes place during the day in rather brightly lit buildings and rooms. He seems to have gone out of his way to turn on its head, the way one might go about filming a supernatural/horror tale and he does so, very successfully.

    I'm only mildly surprised that Hollywood hasn't come calling seeking the rights to the inevitable remake. This is a very fine movie, but one that I think has just too much subtlety and nuance for North American audiences ( the IMDB rating of 5.7 is indicative of what I'm saying) seeking an adrenaline burst of quick thrills, dominating sound and explosive action set pieces. Make sure you watch till the end.
    8nick-yeo-main

    Woman well beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown.

    Anna moves into hiding in a shabby flat in an apartment building outside Oslo, with her young son Anders. She is a profoundly neurotic, young woman: terrified that the boy's violent father will find them again and attack her son.

    Having been instructed by social services that Anders should sleep in his own room, she buys a baby-monitor from a local shop, in order that she can hear him sleep. However she starts picking up the sounds of violence from a nearby flat.

    Unable to tell the difference between her psychosis induced world and reality, she seeks help from Helge, the shy sales assistant who sold her the monitor.

    Just because she's paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get her.. but it does make it difficult to piece together the story, told mostly from her desperately disturbed perspective.

    This film won the Grand Prize at the Gerardmer Film Festival in France: it is really worth a look.
    6robinski34

    Call the Midwife

    Babycall is a sparse psychological mystery / thriller by writer / director Pal Sletaune, centred on a convincing and naturalistic performance by Noomi Rapace, with excellent support from Kristopher Joner as her character's awkward admirer and Vetle Qvenild Werring as her son Anders. As a claustrophobic mood piece, it is effective, and Rapace gives an accomplished performance, as should be expected by those who know her work. Events are bleak and the central character is troubled, and it is not a comfortable watch, but ultimately likely to be somewhat satisfying for fans of the genre, if perhaps only for the central performances, since horror is not a word that sits well in its description.

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      Helge: Where is Anders?

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      References La Momie (1932)

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    • Release date
      • May 2, 2012 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Norway
      • Germany
      • Sweden
    • Official sites
      • Official site (Japan)
      • Official site (Norway)
    • Languages
      • Norwegian
      • Swedish
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Monitor
    • Filming locations
      • Germany
    • Production companies
      • 4 1/2 Film
      • Pandora Filmproduktion
      • BOB Film
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    • Budget
      • NOK 25,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,417,397
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 36m(96 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital

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