Holiday (2018)
First screened in July 2019
Director: Isabella Eklöf. Cast: Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde, Thijs Römer, Yuval Segal, Bo Brønnum, Adam Ild Rohweder, Morten Hemmingsen, Mill Jober, Laura Kjær, Stanislav Sevcik, Saxe Rankenberg Frey, Michiel de Jong. Screenplay: Isabella Eklöf and Johanne Algren.

Twitter Capsule: Imagine Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty reimagined by Nicolas Winding Refn, with consequent coarsening of imagery and theme.

VOR:   Presents as a venue for hard-hitting truths, and does have some things to say about moral degradation, criminal complicity. But are they new?



Photo © 2018 Apparatur Film/Common Ground Pictures/Film i Väst/
OAK Motion Pictures, © 2019 Breaking Glass Pictures

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B–


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