Thursday, August 15, 2019

Cold Case Hammarskjöld is a gonzo journey you don’t want to miss

Mads Brügger’s Cold Case Hammarskjöld, which debuted at Park City back in January, is a cinematic reinvestigation of the mysterious 1961 plane crash that took the life of United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld. But such a grave synopsis doesn’t even begin to describe this addictively gonzo (unsurprisingly, as Brügger is the Danish provocateur behind The Red Chapel and The Ambassador) doc, its every frame pulsing with sprawling ambition.


To read my thumbs-up review visit Global Comment.

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