Intrigo: In Liebe, Agnes (2019)

Intrigo: In Liebe, Agnes: Directed by Daniel Alfredson. With Carla Juri, Gemma Chan, Jamie Sives, Cal MacAninch. What is a human life worth? How is it possible that a woman like Agnes could agree to kill another human being? Is it the money? Or are there other forces at play? A funeral. A young widow and two adult children. Agnes is burying her much older husband and the children are his, not hers. Agnes senses that someone is watching her and glimpses a woman roughly her own age standing nearby. Within seconds, the woman is gone. They were once very close, Agnes and Henny. A friendship both rewarding and demanding, which ended in disaster. Now Henny seeks reconciliation. But Agnes seems cautious. Agnes is completely thrown by Henny’s proposal. Henny is married to Peter, and asks Agnes to help her murder him. She’s prepared to pay good money and also to let Agnes choose the manner in which Peter is to die. Agnes realizes that the past has caught up with her and that she has no choice. What really happened between Agnes and Henny in Bruges all those years ago? How could it be that two people who enjoyed one another’s company so much, could end up hurting each other so badly? They, who had loved each other so much.

“Gemma Chan and Carla Juri had once been very close friends, but have drifted apart. Now Miss Juri is burying her much older husband, and sees Mss Chan, who vanishes. When she reappears, they renew their friendship in a tentative manner, and Miss Juri asks Miss Chan to help kill her husband.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe second of three movies based on Håkan Nesseru0026#39;s short story collection is not as intricately plotted as the first, but it lives in the unspoken details, the expressions on peoplesu0026#39; faces, and the impeccably clean and detailed, upper class world these people live in, like an Éric Rohmer film. An air of anomie suffuses the movie, which tends to make it less compelling to me, but thereu0026#39;s little doubt that director Daniel Alfredson accomplishes what he set out to do, which is to involve the audience by making them fill in the unspoken and unshown details.”