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Department Q: A Conspiracy Of Faith. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pål Sverre Hagen, Jakob Ulrik Lohmann, Amanda Collin, Johanne Louise Schmidt, Jakob Oftebro, Signe Anastassia Mannov, Søren Pilmark, Michael Brostrup, Morten Kirkskov, Olivia Terpet Gammelgaard, Jasper Møller Friis, Louis Sylvester Larsen, Lotte Andersen, Benjamin Kitter, Maria Rossing.  

 

Faith is to be admired, even if you don’t follow a religion, a certain devotion to the conviction in a higher spirit, for to see someone take heart from the road they entrust to their faith is to feel at times blessed, assured that through their eyes the picture before you is arguably bigger, more focused; if it makes them happy and content to keep going through life’s most strenuous ordeals then who are you to knock them down.

Department Q: The Absent One, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Pilou Asbaek, Danica Curcic, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Johanne Louise Schmidt, Marco Ilso, Beate Bille, Peter Christoffersen, Soren Pilmark, Michael Brostrup

It is perhaps one of the quirks of cinema that a film can achieve much on the big screen and yet its two follow ups seem to drift away from the limelight without even being seen by anyone, such is the precarious nature sometimes of producing a modern noir that might seem unpalatable to anyone outside of the fan or the seriously interested viewer.