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‘Reedland’ Review: Outstanding Slow-Burn Thriller Announces Potentially Major New Dutch Director Sven Bresser
Sven Bresser's debut 'Reedland' is a chilling drama about the effect that a child’s murder in a small rural community has on a local grandfather.
It’s a sonic and visual maze, the natural world’s equivalent of TV static: earth-bound, mud-rooted and subtly threatening in its hypnotic, fluttering illusion of uniformity. A violent crime fracturing a tight-knit community is hardly a new subject for arthouse cinema, but it is handled here by freshman writer-director Sven Bresser with an original eye and a keen sense of how to generate a persistent atmosphere of foreboding. In addition to Bergman, the lineage of European filmmakers into which this dark, finely judged film slots includes the likes of Michael Haneke and Thomas Vinterberg.
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