Film

The Guilty

Director
Gustav Möller
Certificate
15
Running Time
85 mins

Devil, Buried, Locke, Phone Booth…yep, the ‘single location thriller’ has certainly enjoyed a popularity boost among filmmakers in recent years, having been pioneered by Hitchcock with Rope and Rear Window.

And those Hitch comparisons are being deployed freely to describe Danish director Gustav Möller‘s tense and ingenious drama, which focuses solely on an emergency call centre dispatcher as heraces against time to locate an abducted woman who seems to be trapped in a moving vehicle.

 

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By robin askew, Friday, Oct 5 2018

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