Lasse Rimmer and Lene Nystrøm in 'Deliver Us From Evil'. Courtesy Evokative Films.
The Swedish thriller Deliver Us From Evil (Fri os fra det onde) was one of the best films at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, and I’ve been wanting to see it again ever since I screened it. Well it looks like the time has come for it to hit theatres across Canada, starting in Montreal on September 7 with a French subtitled copy at the Quartier Latin Theatre, and on September 10 at the AMC Forum Theatre with an English subtitled copy. More details on the film and the trailer are below courtesy distributor Evokative Films.
Lars and Johannes are brothers with very little in common. Johannes is a high-powered lawyer with a beautiful wife and two children; Lars is a truck driver and a drunken brute who beats his girlfriend. Having returned to his hometown in the country, Johannes hopes for a less hectic, more genuine lifestyle. But trouble is underfoot when Lars runs over a woman with his truck. He sees only one way out: put the blame on Alain, a Bosnian refugee with impaired mental functions. But when Lars, the God-fearing husband of the victim, and his friends close in on the Bosnian, Johannes stands up for the man and shelters him. Undeterred, the violent, drunken horde makes its way to Johannes’ secluded house, where the family and Alain fear for their lives. When words no longer suffice to contain the madness, a siege begins, in which unchained anarchy dictates a scenario of terror… Deliver Us From Evil is a piercing insight into human nature driven berserk.
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