The Danish entry and nominee for this year’s Foreign
Language Film Oscar is A War written
and directed by Tobias Lindholm. This is one of the more unusual foreign films
you’ll see in that it more closely resembles a Hollywood film than most. It’s
easy to forget that American soldiers haven’t been the only ones doing the
fighting and dying in Afghanistan. A coalition of many nations sent soldiers
there and A War is about a company of
Danish men and women patrolling the countryside and villages to keep the
Taliban at bay.
