Brothers

A Danish soldier is taken prisoner in Afghanistan and presumed killed. His troubled younger brother steps in to support the family — and something forms between him and his sister-in-law that neither planned. Then the soldier returns, not the same man who left. Bier's war film is really a film about what violence does to a person, and what that person then does to everyone who loves them. The Afghan sequences are harrowing; the domestic sequences are somehow worse. Later remade by Jim Sheridan, but the Danish original has a rawness the remake couldn't replicate.