Mads Mengel - The Guest - “It has to have all of it, and then none of it. It has to be one big pile of grey.”

In this episode, Brian speaks with Danish filmmaker Mads Mengel about his feature debut The Guest , a tightly controlled family drama built around a deceptively simple event, a naming ceremony for a young couple’s new son. What begins as a celebration soon becomes something much more fragile when Carl’s estranged mother arrives unexpectedly, forcing the family to confront old pain, broken trust…

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