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What might have been an edgy little thriller is transformed by Borgen director Jesper W Nielsen into the kind of bitchy workplace drama that will make many viewers grateful for the Covid lockdown.

The neat trick of Aakeson and Moland is to balance the humour with unexpected moments of poignancy and humanity as fathers from both sides of the criminal tracks share the common ground of parenthood.

It holds nothing back – it’s funny, violent, suspenseful and tense while still discussing our current cultural moment, both locally and globally, and being very incisive and dangerous about it.

The jumps from scenes in the style of Romanian New Wave to stylised oneiric dream sequences are so sharp that the overall result feels jarring in a way that undermines both stylistic choices.

The whole point of A Serbian Film is to sicken and offend the viewer.

Its biggest problem is that its main protagonist and his love interest are never fleshed out and could basically be boiled down to all too known Hero With a Thousand Faces tropes