The latest film from Ole Bornedal (JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY, part of AFI's 2008 EU Film Showcase) continues the Danish director's knack for exploiting genre conventions to thought-provoking effect. Luckless truck driver Lars, angry at the world and normally drunk, causes a fatality in a hit-and-run accident, but plants evidence to implicate the town's Bosnian refugee handyman, Alain. After Lars's citified, liberal older brother Johannes comes to Alain's defense and takes him into his home, the local louts plot a pitchforks-and-torches nighttime assault, egged on by the deceased's unhinged, right-wing widower. With nods to American films like RIO BRAVO and STRAW DOGS, Bornedal's film provocatively examines class and ethnic differences in today's Europe.

DIR/SCR Ole Bornedal; PROD Michael Obel. Denmark/Sweden/Norway, 2009, color, 100 min. In Danish with English subtitles. NOT RATED

Friday, November 13, 9:45; Monday, November 16, 7:00

AFI Member passes will be accepted.

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