Swedish family satire with a sting
Under The Tree is a carefully delineated and brutally effective parable for our increasingly hostile and uncivil times
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Under The Tree: Directed by: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, Selected, no cert,Rating:****
The Image You Missed: Directed by: Donal Foreman, Selected, no cert,Rating:****
Good fences make good neighbours, as the poet once said, but bad ones are much more fun in Icelandic director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson’s Under The Tree, a gleefully cruel social satire that recalls last year’s Oscar-nominee The Square in it’s smooth escalation from comic farce to something approaching psychological horror.
