Finding my original plans to go to Manchester today to change due to the station having extensive repairs today which means long delays,I went into the local CEX, where I spotted a DVD of the sweet Danish Nordic Noir Thriller,leading to me showing ID.
View on the film:
Waking up in a wounded daze unable to even remember her name, Tuva Novotny gives a smashing turn as Ida, whose memories Novotny glues together with an enticing Nordic Noir curiosity to unravel how she ended up with a bagful of cash and a gun.
Driving into the gaps of Ida's mind, Carsten Bjornlund gives a very good performance as Martin, whose rough and tumble manner shoved forward by Bjornlund springs the urgency of slotting all her scattered memories back together.
Based on Anne Chaplin Hansen's novel, (which sadly has not been translated into English) the screenplay by Tine Krull Petersen (Petersen's first movie script) neatly blends the Nordic Noir cynicism of corrupt politicians hands filled with dirty money, (a major theme of the genre) with the tense thrills of the Euro Spy genre, via excellent set-pieces of Ida having to walk on tiptoes pretending to all those unaware that she remembers them, as Petersen times an extended flashback which clocks the motives of the thugs chasing her.
Spying on the tone set by Petersen, director Christian E. Christiansen & cinematographer Ian Hansen eye Ida's past with crystallized hand-held shots sprinting to the explosive atmosphere of Ida running in fear of her life, which is placed under risk by mesmerizing smash cut edits by editors Bodil Kjaerhauge and Anders Refn which makes the action crunch, (which include a tasty gory use of a metronome) as Ida shows her ID.