The Guilty

Thursday 9th January 2020
85 minutes. Subtitled. Cert 15.

Director: Gustav Möller
Denmark 2018
Copenhagen police officer Asger (Jakob Cedergren) has been temporarily assigned to answering emergency calls in a police call centre.  One of these calls is from a woman who claims she is being kidnapped.  It then becomes a desperate race against time for the desk bound Asger.  Like the 2013 film Locke, this is essentially just one man and a phone, yet this tightly constructed thriller racks up the tension in a way that most American thrillers can only dream of.