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Spoiler-free premise
Corporate recruiter and art thief Roger Brown targets a valuable painting owned by former mercenary and executive candidate Clas Greve.
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Oslo headhunter Roger Brown finances an expensive lifestyle by stealing art from job candidates. He targets Clas Greve, a former mercenary who owns a missing Rubens and seeks an executive position, but the theft turns Roger from manipulator into quarry.
Why it belongs
Morten Tyldum makes a polished confidence game savagely physical, deploying status anxiety, reversals, and Norwegian landscape to keep changing the hunter.
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Glass offices, designer homes, tracking technology, rural roads, and escalating bodily indignity strip Roger's cultivated control layer by layer. Aksel Hennie's anxious adaptability keeps the thriller nasty, comic, and propulsive.
Major award wins
No verified wins in this six-institution crosswalk.
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