Review of The Hunt (2012)

Warning: Spoilers
A slow-burning and intense Danish drama featuring a typically electrifying turn from Mads Mikkelsen as an intensely sympathetic nursery worker falsely accused of a crime he didn't commit. Shades of Hitchcock's 'wronged man' genre here, except this is much more of a realistic character study rather than twisty, action-fuelled thriller. The acting, writing and direction are all on form, and despite the harrowing subject matter this is an engrossing drama in which the realism is key above everything else.