Writer and director Lasse Lyskjaer Noer has created a masterpiece with Knight of Fortune he not only breaks the taboo around grief but emphasises the importance of acknowledging and processing loss. Grief has many faces and affects each person individually. Noer has really captured the different facets of grief. 

The contrast between loss and doing your job is brought out in a very matter of fact way by the coroner saying: 

“The mouth may hang a little and her skin may be a bit yellowish, that happens at times with dead people.” 

The cinematography in monochrome befits the setting, the mortuary is clean and spartan, the use of colour is introduced when the two men are in the car park, there sitting together and sharing a song is a watershed moment that life will go on; the poignancy in the moment is not lost.  

A film worthy of the Oscar nod.