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Less concerned with scrutinising the playground than the dangerous games adults can play with one another.

Its images are often chilling. Its spaces have a genuine charge. But the plot often feels less like cinema than like a sequence of cutscenes from a video game with the gameplay removed.

Ambiguity can be a strategy, but here it often reads like evasiveness.

Slippery in terms of genre and form, the writer/director’s satire puts all his characters and, by extension, us under close scrutiny.

Mungiu’s eye moves between the juggernaut and the barely visible.

Hvistendahl and her cast have a very strong sense of the emotional weight of the piece.

Thedin is excellent in the central role, perfectly balancing Jill's wisdom and insight with her vulnerability and sometime naivety.

What marks Trier out is his ability to take on intellectual ideas like this but make them play out in ways that don’t feel forced or overly constructed.

There is a lingering, half blossomed melancholy that lies underneath the often very funny, fast-paced moments of quotidian chaos.