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Cast and Crew
Cast: Michael Nyqvist,
Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre,
Peter Andersson, Annika Hallin,
Per Oscarsson, Yasmine Garbi,
Johan Kylén, Tanja Lorentzon,
Paolo Roberto
Director: Daniel Alfredson
RunTime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Genre: Crime/Mystery/Thriller
Released By: Encore Films & GV
Rating: TBA
Opening Day: 16 September 2010
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The Story:
Two years from now, the original ‘Millenium’ trilogy of movies will probably remembered as ‘the versions that came out before David Fincher did them’. The ‘Fight Club’ director has been given the task of remaking these movies, with Daniel Craig in the lead, a crying shame considering the first movie was simple amazing. But before all that happens, we have the second Swedish instalment, ‘The Girl Who Played With Fire.’
It’s a year since the events of the first movie, and Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) returns to Sweden after a year in self-imposed exile following the events of the first film. This anonymity is soon shattered, however, when she is implicated in a series of murders connected with a story her only trusted friend, Mikael (Michael Nyqvist) is investigating. With Lisbeth branded public enemy number one, Mikael must prove her innocence before it’s too late.
Whereas ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ was shock after shock, this story feels like a retread in as much as many characters are revisited, and the twists are not quite as shocking. We look deep into the character of Lisbeth, and so Mikael takes more of a supporting role, with most of the story devoted to working out why she is so detached from the world. It does gather pace and provides a tense finale, with an open-ended final shot leaving you salivating for the final chapter.
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It may not be great literature, but Stieg Larsson’s page-turning Millennium trilogy – better known as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books – at least buries any notion of Sweden as a peaceful nation made up mostly of leggy blonds and saunas. The first book, and subsequent movie version, introduced a crusading journalist named Mikael Blomkvist and a violent, unhappy, pierced, Goth computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. The two are crime fighters investigating the case of a missing girl who find secrets buried in Sweden’s neo-Nazi underworld that include sexual violence, misogyny and lots of guns. There was hardly a leggy blond in sight.
The film version of the second book, The Girl Who Played with Fire, once again presents a Sweden that’s hard to recognize. The heroes are back – Blomkvist, still played by the appealing Michael Nyqvist, and Salander, again given dark and angry life by the perfectly cast Noomi Rapace – and some of our old favourites as well: Bjurman (Peter Andersson), for instance, the sleazy lawyer who assaulted Lisbeth in the first movie and still carries a tattoo on his stomach that reads, “I am a sadistic pig and a rapist,” and Erika (Lena Endre), the married woman with whom Blomkvist is having a matter-of-fact and fairly public affair (at least some things seem Swedish).
The second story is even more outre than the first one, although perhaps it’s not surprising that a film starring a Goth would be gothic. Like the book on which it’s based, it is violent, complex, barely believable and filled with bizarre characters, like Niedermann (Micke Spreitz), a blond, muscular giant seemingly impervious to pain, and Zala (Georgi Staykov), a shadowy criminal boss with a temperament, not to mention a disfigurement, that wouldn’t be out of place in a Bond villain.
And Sweden is just as fraught. The Girl Who Played with Fire uncovers a prostitution ring that takes advantage of immigrant women and involves a cross-section of the Swedish power elite, all of whom seem to be involved in some way in either kinky sex or its coverup. As in the first movie, the plot has been pared down a bit, and a good thing, too: The book devotes several pages to Lisbeth shopping at Ikea for furniture, for instance, and includes a bizarre episode in which she gets breast implants that make her feel more womanly. For a writer who took up the feminist cause, Larsson could be a little tone-deaf.
A new director, Daniel Alfredson, has taken over (he also directs the third film in the series, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest), and it comes with a lighter palette. The first movie was set in the gloomy Swedish countryside, a place of nightfall and rain. This film takes place mostly in Stockholm, pictured as a clean, sunny and somewhat featureless city whose main charm is the view from Lisbeth’s luxury apartment. The city looks like smorgasbord tastes – responsibly nourishing – but under the calm lies a Nordic noir.
The movie begins where the last one left off (if you haven’t seen No. 1, don’t try to figure out No. 2), with Lisbeth returning from a yearlong world tour and getting involved in three murders. They’re somehow linked to the sex ring, and Lisbeth’s connection turns out to be one of those coincidences that powers so much detective fiction.
She becomes a suspect, and Blomkvist has to clear her name. Meanwhile, the hulking blond giant is lurching here and there, occasionally popping up with a working chainsaw to do his dirty work. The romance of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is missing in The Girl Who Played with Fire: Love here is represented by a somewhat gratuitous sex scene between Lisbeth and her girlfriend, as well as a quick glide over the relationship of Blomkvist and Erika.
The movie eliminates many of Larsson’s subplots, laying bare an overwrought but undeniably mesmerizing skeleton. The Girl series is the movie version of a page-turner: We don’t believe it, and we can’t wait to see what happens next. Kick that hornet’s nest, Lisbeth Salander.
The movie is due out in the UK 26th November.
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