R

The prisoner R arrives at Denmark's toughest prison and is immediately reduced to a letter — just another inmate in a system that has no interest in him as a person. Lindholm's debut co-direction, shot in a decommissioned prison with a cast of ex-convicts and professional actors, achieves a documentary realism that is genuinely unsettling. No escape, no redemption arc, no manipulation — just the institution working exactly as designed, grinding the people inside it into whatever shape it requires.