Grant Shade

… shades of Michael Haneke here – Amrum has a very similar feel to The White Ribbon.

… daubed with amazingly artistic cinematography …

… a nervy, frustrating watch, but thoroughly watchable throughout …

… a very accomplished piece of work that looks and sounds great on the big screen.

… a top-notch humanistic drama.

It’s not perfect, it could be tighter and there’s an overriding sense of the ridiculous, but it’s one of those films that grows on you.

... a strong, confident attack on small-minded bigotry, packaged in Dr. Moreau wrapping paper.

… balances the sport sequences and the social justice elements well – not a typical football doco and yet not a polemic as such.

A taut Roman police thriller … a brutal film

… a fine document of a place and time in flux.