The Exile

Slicing into its protagonist's psyche with surgical finesse and discomfort, this queasy-comic character study pulls off a subtly perilous balancing act...

Matičević is sensational as the lead, keeping his ruggedly handsome features death-mask stoic throughout.

The kind of thriller that Michael Haneke would make after learning he didn't get invited to a friend's party, and Morina's film builds from that influence with his own audacious visual storytelling.

A "thriller" in much the same low-key workplace nightmare way that last year's The Assistant was, this is a very discomfiting film made no less so by the fact that our beleaguered protagonist isn't always a particularly sympathetic figure.