Tag: nordicnoir

With the adaptations of Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q novels breaking box office records in Denmark - where previous entries The Keeper Of Lost Causes, The Absent One, and A Conspiracy Of Faith were all huge hits - it comes as...

The Scandinavian Film Festival is on its way and will feature twenty films hailing from different parts of the Nordic. Some of the films on offer dabble in Noir, and with the recent boom of the 'Nordic Noir' craze hitting...

There's no question about it, anybody who ventures outside in Fernando Gonzalez Molina's The Invisible Guardian (El Guardian Invisible) is going to get wet with literally every exterior shot in the new trailer for the film being positively draped in...

Denamrk's Ole Bornedal is a long time favorite in these parts, a maverick of worts who was crafting dark genre films in his homeland long before the whole Nordic Noir movement made it somehow okay to be a Dane who...

Iceland's Baltasar Kormakur maintains something of a split personality ... at home he's the acclaimed director of a string of arthouse dramas and thrillers acclaimed around the globe while in Hollywood he aims for bigger, blockbuster fare like Contraband, Two...

If not for the fact that everything has fallen apart around him, Andri's life would be perfect. The chief of police in a town so small that the biggest issue of the day are locals calling to complain about their...

Having blown the doors off the Danish box office - where it set multiple records - and with the sequel already deep into the production process, Mikkel Norgaard's big screen adaptation of Jussi Adler Olsen's crime thriller The Keeper Of...

When we last heard from Swedish director Tarik Saleh he was on the festival circuit with his animated science fiction film Metropia. Well, he's back now and working in an entirely different sphere with his latest effort, Tommy.Moa Gammel stars...

Fans of the current wave of Nordic Noir - high class crime films and television series coming from Scandinavia, including the likes of The Killing, The Bridge and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - have been keeping an eye...