Locarno Review: 'Schneider vs. Bax' is a Hilarious Dark Comedy of Errors

READ MORE: Indiewire's Coverage of the 2015 Locarno Film Festival Danish filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam's movies tend to take the form of black comedies where doomed characters are trapped by bizarre circumstances. His last feature, the Cannes-acclaimed "Borgman," took this tendency into the realm of abstraction, with the unsettling tale of a devilish presence who inserts himself into an upper class home and destroys it from the inside. Van Warmerdam's latest effort, the riveting and very funny "Schneider vs. Bax," takes a comparatively more traditional approach to turning domestic problems into a warped farce. The plot is fairly straightforward: a pair of killers cope...

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