'Involuntary' (UK Release: 29 Oct '10)
Director: Ruben Östlund
Cast: Maria Lundqvist, Villmar Björkman, Linnea Cart-Lamy, Leif Edlund
I have to admit that I have a personal bias toward long takes in filmmaking. I believe that they focus the viewer, that they're immersive and that they can also be an incredible way to create tension. At the same time, tension built in this way can make me feel extremely nervous, probably because I’ve seen a lot of films employ this unflinching technique to demonstrate particularly sudden, unpleasant or outright gruesome events. I spent perhaps the first quarter of Swedish film 'Involuntary' squirming, worried that horrific things might spontaneously happen to each and every character, a fear reinforced by an early scene where a man is struck in the eye by a firework.
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