Insomnia (Skarsgård)

 Insomnia (Skarsgård) 1997

• Director: Erik Skjoldbaerg
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Gisken Armand, Björn Moan, Marianne O Ulrichsen, Björn Floberg
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Stellan Skarsgård – Dune, Mamma Mia 1&2, Our Kind of Traitor, River, Cinderella, The Railway Man, Thor, Frankie & Alice, Pirates of the Caribbean et al, Dogville, The Glass House, Dancer in the Dark, The Deep Blue Sea, Amistad, Good Will Hunting, Breaking the Waves, Falsk som vatten, Hamlet, Den enfaldige mördaren
• Sverre Anker Ousdal - Falsk som vatten, Fleksnes fataliteter
• Björn Floberg - Shackleton
• Why? The Al Pacino version
• Seen: 8 August 2022      

       Jonas Engström (Skarsgård) is a Swedish cop working in Norway. He’s sent to the far north, the land of the midnight sun, to investigate the murder of a teen-aged girl.

       Suffering from increasing insomnia because of the white nights he accidently shoots a colleague, mistaking him for the villain. He goes to extremes to cover up what he’s done. When the murderer reveals to Jonas that he witnessed the shooting, the insomnia worsens and Jonas’s brutality increases.

       Northern Norway is beautiful, and the midnight sun is indeed fascinating. But it’s just a cop film.

       Well, maybe not. It’s more a psychological study of the cop than of the case.

       Skarsgård is always good. 

3½ * of 5