Filmmaker Adam Berg’s dark thriller is set in a future torn apart by civil war and features a soldier-mother who will do anything to be reunited with her missing daughter
The best B-movies don’t just deliver over-the-top genre pleasures but marry those outrageous thrills to bold, sharp thematic concerns., unfortunately, only does the former, establishing a nifty premise and then doing very little with it other than to go through the post-apocalyptic action-adventure motions.
Adapted from Jerker Virdborg’s novel, Swedish director Adam Berg’s feature debut is a chilly affair that opens in an unspecified time, with Caroline Edh and her daughter Vanja sitting in traffic in a city tunnel. Radio reports about a civil war that’s killed more than 150 are unnerving enough to compel Edh to change the station.
Cut to another unidentified future, and Edh is dropped off by train at a military outpost in what’s clearly a warzone, marked by scores of vagabond refugees herded behind barbed-wire fences in makeshift tent cities, and columns of smoke lining the horizon. Things have clearly gone to hell in a handbasket, butprovides no details on what’s actually taken place—a tack that it’ll continue, to increasingly frustrating ends, as it lays out its scenario.
That’s a good, clever hook, and director Berg drums up significant suspense from sequences of characters gliding across this chilly landscape, the sounds of their skates in the cool, frosty night only accompanied by a low, menacing synth-heavy score. Images of these individuals skimming through the dark in silhouette, backlit by fiery conflagrations or the glow of the moon, set a suitably tense mood.
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