Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
A cold, bleak Scandinavian crime film that takes its time and works layer by layer into old family secrets and violence against women. The investigation feels patient and sober, and that flat tone is what makes the harsh scenes so hard to shake. Lisbeth Salander is the figure you carry out of it: guarded, relentless and unpredictable.
Good for you if you like dark, slow-building crime cases and want a strong, unconventional lead character.
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