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Danish director Christoffer Boe explores the relationship between cinema and literature in this teasingly film noir-like mystery that recalls some of David Lynch's more unusual movies. Tempted into a fling with novelist Krister Henriksson's glamorous wife, photographer Nikolaj Lie Kaas awakes in a seemingly alternative universe, where neither friends nor family know him and he suspects he's being manipulated by a higher force. Playing fast and loose with the rules of storytelling, Boe delights in misleading the viewer, a conceit made easier by the fact that both the women in Kaas's life are played by the bewitching Maria Bonnevie. Tricksy, calculated and occasionally self-conscious, this is definitely worth the experience.

Deeply satisfying