Die Tür (2009)
49KDie Tür: Directed by Anno Saul. With Mads Mikkelsen, Jessica Schwarz, Valeria Eisenbart, Thomas Thieme. A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter’s death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.
“Within last decades, suspense thrillers have become trendy, and novelists and screenwriters try to create the source materials as mind-twisting and twisted as possible. While focusing on such a turn/twist, they form rather trivial story around it – intentionally or spontaneously. All this applies to the film in question, where the basic story is rather trivial, with keywords as middle-class family, jealousy, adultery… Well, a certain twist provides additional food for thought and even criminal moments, but all this is often difficult to follow, and collisions between someone and his/her younger version via traveling in time is not too compelling. The ending scenes add some action, but the solution is – well, you just shrug your shoulders…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs usual, Mads Mikkelsen gives a strong performance (in German), and there are a few scenes without his presence, but the rest are just good, not more; anyway, admirers of Mikkelsen and/or psychological drama thrillers do probably see more interesting angles.”
