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Boundless

2024 · 126 min

A sombre, wintry Nordic crime story that feels like a slow, grim unravelling, with an undercurrent of buried pain.

Directed by
Ole Christian Madsen
Genres
Thriller, Crime
Starring
Ulrich Thomsen, Afshin Firouzi, Sofie Torp
Overview
In a moment of cowardice, Detective Carl Mørck sends Rose, his junior colleague in Department Q, to the remote Danish island of Bornholm to answer his old colleague Christian Habersaat's repeated requests. But during his forced retirement ceremony Christian kills himself sending Rose into a journey deep into her own traumatic past. Later, Department Q are embroiled into an old cold case of a girl found dead hanging in a tree.

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Directed by
Ole Christian Madsen
Genres
Thriller, Crime
Starring
Ulrich Thomsen, Afshin Firouzi, Sofie Torp
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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • trauma
  • grief
  • isolation
  • deception
  • crime
Places
  • small town
  • single country house
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror3
Humour1
Realism7
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
thriller, crime
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Ulrich Thomsen, Afshin Firouzi, Sofie Torp, Hedda Stiernstedt, Joachim Fjelstrup, Mads Reuther, Rasmus Bjerg, Helle Fagralid
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
126 min
Country
Denmark, Germany, Estonia
Languages
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