Anything is possible in the fight for life

Filmed in the unadorned Dogme style and acted with a ferocious intensity, Brothers poses a special challenge for Nielsen (familiar to us from American films like Gladiator and The Devil's Advocate), whose character finds herself circled by emotional tornados. In a movie whose characters flail uninhib-itedly upon the stages of their own lives, Sarah is the reactive center, forestalling chaos with the tense, instinctive calm of a woman who senses the consequences of one false move.