Following their collaboration on 2019’s Cold Pursuit, director Hans Petter Moland and star Liam Neeson are reuniting for the crime drama, Absolution, which tells of an aging ex-boxer working as muscle for a Boston crime boss who receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children, determined to leave a positive legacy for his grandson, even though the criminal underworld aren’t done with him and won’t loosen their grip willingly.
As the film arrives on digital platforms in North America and celebrates being the number 1 most watched film on Prime Video Australia, Peter Gray spoke with Moland about reuniting with his star, the enjoyment he found in subverting expectation of “a Liam Neeson movie”, and which unlikely film inspired his path to becoming a director himself.
You’ve made primarily Norwegian films at this point, but in 2019 we saw Cold Pursuit, …