The Guest review – Trine Dyrholm pulls out all the stops as a bipolar mother in dysfunctional family drama

Karlovy Vary film festival Writer-director Mads Mengel’s film about a seaside christening disrupted by a previously shunned relative is shot in the spirit of Dogme 95 Danish actor Trine Dyrholm gives a magnetic performance with all guns blazing in this intensely painful, uncomfortable but also sometimes uncomfortably funny film from writer-director Mads Mengel; it is about a dysfunctional family and is shot in a freewheeling handheld style with lots of looming extreme closeups, a film in the spirit of Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme 95 classic Festen. Karl (Simon Bennebjerg) and Emilie (Mette Klakst

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