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Mads Brügger’s Cold Case Hammarskjöld | 2019 Sundance Film Festival

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Remarkably still comfortable working with the confines of the gonzo investigative docu style of filmmaking, Mads Brügger comically addresses how storytelling can curtail and shape-shift especially when the original charted route brings unintended surprises. In another filmmaker’s hands, a docu film such as Cold Case Hammarskjöld would not work, but this Dane goes full pandora’s box with a probing film subject matter that is disturbing food for thought past the film’s run time. With terrific buzz (and a film prize win of Best Director to boot), I caught one of the final screenings before the filmmaker headed off to Europe.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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