They are people who have important significance for each other, but are not honest with each other. They live in a shadow world of lies and half truths and just waiting for the truth to come forward so they can continue their lives in a new direction.
Acting
Ann Petrén devastates as the matriarch of misery.
Direction
Runge lets silence do the screaming.
Writing
Dialogue so restrained it physically hurts.
Director
Björn Runge
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Runge adapted this from his own stage play, which explains the claustrophobic single-location tension and theatrical pacing.
Gustaf Skarsgård filmed this between seasons of Vikings, playing wildly against type as a passive, crumbling man.
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