One review on 02 Aug 2025

Denmark 2010

Running time: 118 mins

In a Better World

Hævnen

Director : Susanne Bier 

Setting: Denmark & Africa
Summary: Friendship of two boys has consequences for their families

Cast:

  • Mikael Persbrandt  Anton (doctor works in Africa, Elias's dad)
  • Trine Dyrholm  Marianne (Elias's mother)
  • Markus Rygaard  Elias (Rat-face)
  • Ulrich Thomsen  Claus (windowed dad of Christian)
  • William Jøhnk Nielsen  Christian

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 (anamorphic)

Colour: Colour

Sound: Stereo

Camera: Digital

Film Category
The 2010s
Tags
First Seen: Sat 2nd Aug 2025
Catalogued: 6th Aug 2025

Synopsis

Two troubled familes intersect when their sons become friends at school. 

Reviews

by rogerco on Sat 2nd Aug 2025 DVD proj @ home (Subtitled)

Mostly excellent

Full review

The acting by the two young boys was first rate, and the supporting parents not bad. 

The Africa scenes didn't really gel into the story, if there were supposed to be parallels with the main story they weren't clear to me, although they were good in themselves. And we never found out what the other dad did in London.

Perhaps there were actually three films here that should have been a trilogy - the boys' story, and the two dads stories.

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