The Ape (2009)

Highly Recommended

Sweden

Feature Film

Original Title: Apan

Writer/Director: Jesper Ganslandt

Cinematographer: Fredrik Wenzel

Composer: Erik Enocksson

Cast: Olle Sarri, Françoise Joyce, Niclas Gillis, Sean Pietrulewicz, Lennart Andersson

A man awakens on a bathroom floor, covered in someone else’s blood, and – once washed and dressed, with Bluetooth earpiece inserted – sets off for work, only gradually coming to realise what he might have done the night before, in Ganslandt’s extraordinary film, a restrained and uncompromising character study, which pays great respect to its audience’s intelligence, whilst shining a remarkably sympathetic light upon a character who would normally only be treated with contempt. Iain.Stott