18 minutes of jealousy that'll ruin your next Christmas party.
Christian lives with his girlfriend Julie. She has just started a new job, and when she tells him that she has already been invited to a Christmas party, Christian becomes jealous. He disappears into dark thoughts and soon finds himself in a situation where he only wants confirmation of his own truth.
Acting
Thomas Ernst makes Christian's spiral viscerally skin-crawling.
Direction
Sehested Høeg squeezes maximum tension into 18 tight minutes.
Director
William Sehested Høeg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title 'Tyran' (Danish for 'tyrant') reveals the film's thesis: Christian doesn't want love, he wants dominion.
Director William Sehested Høeg cast his own sister Emma as Julie; the family tension reportedly helped her performance.
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