Tuesday 12 June 2012

Atmen/Breathing (AT, 2011)

A slightly unlikely young offender lands a trainee job as a mortuary assistant (this element is not sensationalised), while remaining in detention by night. Facing an important hearing, certain small things on the outside could militate against him; he also briefly reunites up with his mother who gave him up for adoption at birth.

Directed by Karl Markovics, the lead actor in 2007's excellent The Counterfeiters (my film of the year that year), it's a believable, dispassionate observation of a young man with an uncertain future.

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