Suspenseful as any thriller, the film grips right up to its perfect final shot: a slow crawl toward an advertisement showing a woman whose carefree laughter, when the camera stops, more closely resembles a scream.
Set at Luxembourg airport and intuitively directed by Cyrus Neshvad, this tense drama anxiously observes a young Iranian woman as she retrieves her suitcase and nervously eyes a middle-aged man waiting impatiently outside. So cleverly constructed is “The Red Suitcase” that it would almost work as a silent movie. In a mere 16 minutes, Walter wonderfully evokes the wistfulness of a childhood too soon ended. As the remaining sibling, Pipaluk, searches, Walter meticulously records the fjords, mountains and vast expanses of ice where the sisters played, peeking into Pipaluk’s memories to reveal the shadow over the disappearance. Things perk up considerably with Anders Walter’s “Ivalu.” Adapted from a Danish graphic novel and shot in Greenland, this dreamily beautiful film reviews the shared past of two sisters, one of whom has disappeared.
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