Mads Mikkelsen won the Best Actor Award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival for his penetrating portrayal of Lucas, a highly regarded school teacher who has been forced to start over having overcome a tough divorce and the loss of his job. Just as things are starting to go his way, his life is shattered when an untruthful remark throws his small community into a collective state of hysteria. As the lie spreads, Lucas is forced to fight lonely a fight for his life and dignity. “The Hunt” is an unsettlingly convincing portrait of one man’s struggle against a single falsehood. (115 minutes