Close to Home (1994)
A man faces police questioning after helping a drunk girl the night before.
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Too much of everything
Sadly Over-hyped
It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Erik Skjoldbjærg really broke through with "Insomnia", a solid detective mystery with dark tones set in Scandinavia... here is an earlier look at that detective sense (though in English).Although short (this film could be a feature film), we get a great sense of how easily things can go astray. A teacher, who is married to a woman half his age, starts to get too much attention from the police when he is inadvertently involved in a crime with a 15-year old girl.He is a difficult figure to analyze. Are we to be hard on him when he freely admits he is old enough to be his wife's father? Probably not, but the police seem to see something amiss in there...