12 Great Movies That Are Visually Flat

9. The Guilty

Pulp Fiction Jules Vincent
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This gripping Danish thriller is set entirely within a police call centre and follows a police officer (Jakob Cedergren) as he tries to help an apparently kidnapped woman over the phone.

The Guilty is a very smart movie with an excellent script and a truly great mid-film plot twist, so it is 100% worth seeing, but the drab, somewhat TV film-like cinematography is a little distracting.

The film's lack of visual panache isn't entirely surprising. Films set entirely in one room can be quite difficult to make particularly cinematic and while some films - such as 12 Angry Men (1957) and Locke (2014) - have done this very well, plenty of others have struggled and this is one of them. Still, it more than compensates for this.

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