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| Star Sidse Babett Knudsen looks disturbed behind a young male on this minimalist poster for Gustav Möller's Vogter |
Eva is a dedicated prison guard in a Danish penitentiary. But when the young man responsible for her son's death some years earlier gets transferred there, her composure goes out the window.
Vogter is written by Emil Nygaard Albertsen (Eliten (2015)) and co-writer/director Gustav Möller (The Guilty/Den Skyldige (2018)). The original Danish title translates to 'guardian'.
A character study of a woman who loses touch with her normal moral center, the film depends entirely on the performance of Sidse Babett Knudsen (Ted Lasso (2021, TV-series)) as Eva, and Knudsen is predictably dependable. Sebastian Bull (The Hunt/Jagten (2012)) impresses as the unpredictable convict that she latches herself onto.
It may seem a bit incredible that no-one at Eva's job connect any of the dots as to her strange attachment to the prisoner, and also that she manages to dodge consequences, but it is just barely under the radar in terms of what is an actual problem for the film. Vogter is an intense and stern film about our inevitable connections with each other.
Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: Unknown, projected 3.5 mil. $
Box office: 603k $ and counting
= Too early to say
[Vogter premiered 22 February (Berlin International Film Festival) and runs 100 minutes. The film has sold 22k tickets in Denmark in 5 days, coming to approximately 360k $. It made 273k $ in France, its only registered market on Box Office Mojo, this summer. It is set to release in Portugal, Hungary and Romania in October. Möller is announced to return with Snow Blind, a thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Knudsen returned in Le Fil (2024). Vogter is fresh at 82 % with a 7.00/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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