FAILED SCANDINAVIAN NOIR

Desolation, brutality, dark humor. Basic ingredients of every successful Scandinavian noir thriller, when skillfully mixed together.

„In the order of disappearance” has all the above mentioned, but not in the right amount and scale. Brutal crime is there, motif of father’s (Stellan Skarsgard) revenge as well. Humor is where the script tends to deviate into banality, only to totally collapse after the appearance of the Serbian mobsters led by Bruno Ganz and Sergej Trifunović.

From then on and all the way to the tragicomic finale, „In the order of disappearance” is just begging you to „disappear it” from your hard drive/player due to its shallow and caricature unfolding and acting.

Heavy failure, despite the great atmosphere of desolated Norwegian snowy landscape.

IN THE ORDER OF DISSAPEARANCE - 3/10

HEAVY, HEAVIER, DANISH

Danish cinematography has developed its oustanding reputation by directing some of the most intriguing dramas based on family relations. Unthinkable plots and developments between the members of the basic social unit shocked and awed the audiences worldwide while simultaneously promoting the Scandinavian behavioral norms via silver screen.

Downside of this is the heaviness of subject itself. And what can be heavier than the story of a child traumatized by the horrible loss of life? Two brothers (Gustav Fischer Kjerulff and Sebastian Bull Sarning) have each taken the toll differently, but with same devastating effects. Drama tends grow even heavier when the next generation is included in the consequences of the tragic event. Overall atmosphere is pretty grim, but partial happy end tends to downsize the heavy toll.

„Submarino” is a heavy drama with a big „D” and a brutal depiction of how much we are(n’t) actually formed by events and actions of our childhood.

SUBMARINO - 8/10