Their orders are to only read and sort through the old cases, but his blunt and stubborn nature sees him obsessing about the high profile case of beautiful missing politician Merete Lyngaard (Sonja Richter) who vanished almost five years ago from a car ferry and was assumed had committed suicide. When he returns to work – hands shaking, his marriage in tatters etc – he is assigned to head Department Q…in truth a dingy office in the basement, packed with old files, and with a new, and enthusiastic, assistant named Assad (Fares Fares) to help him along.
In rather familiar cop-story fashion, the film opens with chief detective Carl Morck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) losing his two partners in a brief but brutal shootout in a dingy house. It is vaguely familiar stuff, but director Mikkel Norgaard (who directed four episodes of Danish TV hit Borgen, and made his feature debut in 2010 with local success Klown) shoots with a lot of style and a gripping sense of unease. Jussi Adler-Olsen’s 2007 novel was a bestseller – selling more than seven million copies worldwide and making it onto the New York Times bestseller list – and is the first of five novels that detail the work of a fictional Danish police section named Department Q, which looks into old cold cases. The film had its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival.īleak and dark and at times brutal, it spirals nicely into a tense climax. A highly watchable and engrossing addition to the string of recent Nordic Noir crime films/television series, the smartly titled The Keeper Of Lost Causes ( Kvinden I Buret) may be a rather familiar police procedural, but it is made with style and pace and sets itself up nicely for a series of sequels.
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