The Village Voice, May 4th, 2005
TRACKING SHOTS
O brother, where art thou: Deft but dour Danish digi-drama
BROTHERS
Directed by Susanne Bier
IFC, opens May 6
Coming to us without a Dogme assignation or project number, Susanne Bier's Brothers revisits and expands the soap-operatic terrain of her last film, Open Hearts, shooting handheld and digital and close enough for the actors to fog the lens. Pixel-choked underexposure is a given. As Lars von Trier and his cronies have amply demonstrated, it's a strategy that requires a nervy conceptual rigor or an eloquent dramatic progression. But the setup kept summoning the name o...
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