![]() And more and more Resistance members are picked-up and tortured or summarily executed.īut the sound of “ticking” on the soundtrack takes us into the crowded cockpits of those two-seat bombers, into the school and inside the infamous Shell Building as the picture thunders towards a climax. The RAF crews are flying in guilt, as they know about their previous mistaken strafing. Young Henry struggles to recover his speech with little effective help from a bullying doctor. Sister Teresa also has dangerous interactions with the traitor Frederik. “We’re not 15th century Jesuits,” her prioress ( Susse Wold) scolds her, in Danish or dubbed into English. The troubled, questioning nun is into self-flagellation as she seeks evidence of God in the middle of mass murder. It’s hard to keep everything and everyone straight in your mind and their place in the story. I was convinced during the film’s first act that Bornedal (“Nightwatch”) had over-reached, included too many storylines and sidebars. But “Bombardment” is weighted with the doom that the Resistance, the jackbooted HIPO “traitors” and the nervous aircrews prepping for a deadly, little-margin-for-error rooftop level air raid, “Operation Carthage,” that they all know is coming. ![]() Some of those Resistance prisoners even know that the RAF has reluctantly agreed to carry out that raid.īornedal sets his film in the normalcy of civilian life - families eating and quarreling before school, where the children of Nazi officers inject anti-Semitism into lessons, gently-corrected by the less anti-Semitic nuns. These fighters know that they only thing that will spare those not already rounded-up and being tortured is a raid on a commandeered Shell Oil building in the center of the city where they Gestapo and HIPO hold prisoners as “human shields” against an air raid. ![]() There are Danish Resistance fighters, many being rounded up as the Gestapo and HIPO close in, even with the war going so badly for the Axis elsewhere. Henry has stopped speaking due to the trauma, and his sister and her friend Eva have little luck getting him to talk again. He’s witnessed another bloody accident at the start of the film, a wedding party strafed by an RAF Mosquito as they drove to the ceremony. Teresa ( Fanny Bornedal) is a nun, a teacher at the French Catholic School, so upset at what she’s seen in this war that she questions her faith.Įva ( Ella Josephine Lund Nilsson) is a student, as are cousins Rigmor ( Ester Birch) and Henry ( Bertram Bisgaard Enevoldsen). He’s conflicted, but realistic enough to know “the war is lost” and “I’m a dead man.” He’s in the HIPO, Denmark’s secret police, collaborators with the Gestapo who often do the Germans’ dirty work for them. Titled, “The Shadow in My Eye (Skyggen i mit øje)” in Denmark, writer-director Ole Bornedal’s film hews to classic disaster movie formula, following several story threads - the lives of those who will be thrown together on that fateful day in the last months of the war.įrederick ( Alex Høgh Andersen) is a working class lad who joined the wrong side, something his enraged father never lets him forget. ![]() A tragic accident of war is remembered in the quiet and wrenching Danish World War II drama, “The Bombardment,” a film about the day the RAF came to destroy Copenhagen’s Gestapo headquarters and hit a nearby school as well.
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