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Girl trilogy screened during festival
By John Esther
Together for the first time in Los Angeles, the Scandinavian Film Festival will screen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest over the two weekends. Based on the unpublished novels of the late Stieg Larsson, the first of the trilogy, The Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo, screens today while The Girl Who Played with Fire screens tomorrow afternoon and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest screens next Saturday morning.
In terms of box office sales the most successful film in Scandinavian history, Danish director Niels Ardew Oplev's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo explores the relationships between patriarchal power, ethical corruption and those willing to expose the lies as it follows an unlikely duo uncovering the history of hate in one prominent Swedish family.
Before he serves his term of incarceration, Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) is a journalist hired to discover what happened to the teen heiress of the Vanger family in 1966 on the island the family owns and inhabits north of Stockholm. Her body was never found and now that death draws near for Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Talibe), he wants to know what happened to his niece all those years ago.
Lead by the unexpected presence of the Sweden's most infamous modern heroine, Lisbeth Salandar (Noomi Rapace), these Swedish sleuths begin to unravel a series of unsolved murders whose links and motivations behind them become more sinister at every narrative turn.
Recommended.
(The Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo screens today, 1 p.m. WGA Theatre. For more information: SFFLA-Tattoo)
