Stockholm

Stockholm 2018

• Director: Robert Budreau
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Ethan Hawke, Noomi Rapace, Mark Strong, Christopher Heyerdahl, Bea Santos, Mark Rendall, Shanti Roney
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Ethan Hawke – Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Cymbeline, Before Midnight, Before Sunset, Tape, Hamlet, Snow Falling on Cedars, Gattaca, Before Sunrise, Reality Bites, Waterland, The Dead Poet’s Society
• Noomi Rapace – Unlocked, Rupture, Prometheus, Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows, Svinalängorna, Luftslottet som sprängdes, Flickan som lekte med Elden, Män som hatar kvinnor, Tusenbröder
• Mark Strong – Before I Go to Sleep, The Imitation Game, Zero Dark Thirty, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Eagle, Sherlock Holmes, Young Victoria, Stardust, Sunshine, Sunshine (the other one), Fever Pitch
• Shanti Roney – Tusenbröder, Tillsammans
• Why? Well, I live in Stockholm, don’t I? Good cast, too.
• Seen: 25 July 2020      

       ‘Based on an absurd but true story.’ I remember well when this happened. We were preparing to move to Sweden. The term Stockholm syndrome came from this bank robbery in Stockholm in 1973. Robbers and hostages. If you don’t know the story, Google it.

       Hawke is good as the manic robber. Rapace is good as the frightened but cool-headed hostage, almost unrecognizable in her TV screen 70’s eyeglasses. The scenes from Stockholm are fun to see (making me almost homesick – we haven’t been downtown since March because of Co-vid19).

       How true to the real thing is I don’t know but the film is better than expected.

4 * of 5