The Here After

classified 15 S
Film

Please note: This was screened in May 2016

Director
Magnus Von Horn
Cast
Ulrik Munther, Mats Blomgren, Loa Ek, Wieslaw Komasa
Details
102 mins, Subtitled, 2015, Sweden/Poland/France

This debut from Swedish director Magnus von Horn is a taut and morally complex drama that follows John (Ulrik Munther), a gawky teenager who faces fear, hostility and danger when he returns to his rural community after serving time for a tragic crime.

John's release from a correctional facility (for a as-yet unspecified crime) is welcomed by evident fear and hatred by his small-town neighbours. As he silently endures daily torment from his high school classmates - and his peers' parents orchestrate a campaign to remove him from the community - the sole bright spots in his life are his younger brother and a new girl at school. But as the tension threatens to bubble over, John begins to break down under the pressure of the community loathing he suffers - and his own guilt and vulnerability.

Delicately balancing empathy and fear, rage and forgiveness, this is an expertly crafted (the details of John's crime are slowly drip-fed throughout) debut that gets right under your skin - and refuses to let go.


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