Play (2011)
First screened in August 2014
Director: Ruben Östlund. Cast: Sebastian Blyckert, Kevin Vaz, John Ortiz, Sebastian Hegmar, Yannick Diakité, Abdiaziz Hilowle, Anas Abdirahman, Nana Manu, Tobias Ákesson, Peggy Johansson, Jacob Ottander, Herman Troeng, Nick Holmquist, Caroline Kruse, Lisbeth Caspersson, Adam Nygren, Roland Persson, Almir Karajkovic, Kawa Mohammadi, Kawan Mohammadi, Jörgen Larsson, Ulla-Britt Ekblad, Johan Jonason, Martin McFaul, John Nordström, William Berglind Mäkinen, Lina Räftegård, Kia Skog, Kornelia Wiklund, Humberto Guandinango Espinosa, Luis Alonso Tuquerez, José Jaime, Patricio Cotacachi, Rodrigo Cotacachi, Alfred Cahuasqui, Luis Espinosa. Screenplay: Ruben Östlund and Erik Hemmendorff. Twitter Capsule:
High-handed audience manipulation, trading on prejudices while tsking them. Still, clever construction. Many indelible scenes.
VOR:③
Servile miming of Haneke, or inspired marshaling of his template to different ends? Canny racial provocation or tenuous mirage of Something to Say? Wherever you fall, a worthy goad.
