A War: Interview with Director Tobias Lindholm
As the Academy Awards approach, everyone's paying attention to A War, one of the Best Picture nominees and the official submission from Denmark. Tobias Lindholm, took my phone call to discuss his third feature film. The two—hour drama charts the protagonist, Claus Pedersen, through his stationing in Afghanistan and subsequent return to Denmark when he is tried for misconduct during the war. Woven through the film are scenes of his wife and children at home, as his wife grows tired and anxious sleeping in bed alone and their children grow difficult and petulant.