Jesper Ganslandt's The Ape was a great favorite of mine when it screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, a thriller that reinvents the standard form of the genre to become something entirely engrossing and surprising. It's a puzzle box of a film, one that demands that the audience engage and try to work things out with only minimal information given, and so when the first trailer arrived I was a little disappointed. Sure, it represented the film well but that was actually the problem. This is a film that works better the less you know about it and that first trailer just gave up a bit too muich for my liking.
Enter trailer number two. This one I greatly prefer. Made up of footage cut from the final film this captures the spirit and tone of the piece and is filled with a sort of dread that engages thoroughly while giving away precisely nothing. Perfect.
Krister, a husband and father wakes up to the consequences of a tragedy. He is a broken man, but not aware of it yet. Confronted with everyday reality, there is no place for escape and Krister is soon forced to face up to his actions. The Ape is about the struggle to hold on to things around us already lost. The question arises. What is left, when the life you once had is completely gone?
where is the teaser Todd?
Whoopsie. Should be there now.
nope, still no visible teaser
Damn. It keeps dropping the embed code for some reason ... it's there now.
at last, thanks. the voice is asking for "a happier smile please. but more natural, not so.... more happy now. a bit more happy.."