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

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.