“A War” – and collateral damage [MOVIE REVIEW]
Pilou Asbæk in A WAR, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. “A War,” the Oscar nominated Danish film written and directed by Tobias Lindholm, captures not just the horror of war but also the collateral damage it inflicts on those left behind. Non-judgmental in his approach to filming the Danish soldiers whose job it is to rout the Taliban from their small corner of Afghanistan, Lindholm is interested in revealing the cohesion of individuals put in untenable situations. But as important as illustrating the lives and terrors of the soldiers, he reveals the hardship and psychological hurdles faced by the loved ones at home. Claus Pedersen is the company commander of a small group of soldiers trying desperately to drive the Taliban from this marginally consequential patch of Afghanistan. Is anyone ever prepared to fight a war? What about a war against a hidden enemy in a land so foreign that in a prior time they would have been hard-pressed to find it on a map; where conversation with the beleaguered inhabitants can only be in the third person via an interpreter; where the Taliban fight a guerrilla war terrorizing and killing any locals who communicate with…
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