The televisual tsunami of Scandinavian crime drama continues its relentless
engulfment of the shores of British TV schedules. Next up is Swedish series Arne
Dahl, based on the popular Intercrime series of novels by Swed…Read More...
Whilst Swedish auteur Ulf Malmros is well known throughout Scandinavia and the
Nordic region, his films remain largely ignored by the rest of the world. His
second feature length film, A Summer Tale, which was co-writte…Read More...
That Gorgio Perlasca was essentially unknown to the world – besides those
who owe their lives to him – until a TV interview in 1990 is surely reflective
of our ever obscurer understanding of modern history. This TV…Read More...
Shame (Skammen), starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann, is one of a crop of
Ingmar Bergman films, including Through A Glass Darkly (Såsom I En Spegel,
1961), Persona (Persona, 1966) and The Passion Of Anna (En Pas…Read More...
Just when you thought that Scandinavia had been bled dry of all its TV drama,
along come more crime mysteries to entice the British public. Van Veeteren is a
series of TV films based on a popular series of novels by Swe…Read More...
In a change of pace for art house heavyweight Susanne Biers, this light-hearted
family wedding comedy transplants its characters from their everyday humdrum
lives in Copenhagen to the lush prettiness of the Amalfi coast…Read More...
Before arriving at his later hard-core pornographic filmmaking under the
sobriquet of Irving Weiss, Joseph W. Sarno was one of the great exponents of the
sexploitation genre that arrived amidst the sexual revolutions…Read More...
Following the success of The Killing on BBC Four, it seems Britain can’t get
enough of Danish drama as both Borgen and The Bridge aired to similarly high
viewing figures. Knowing a good thing when they see it, Arro…Read More...
False Trail is a meaty Scandinavian crime drama brought to you by director Kjell
Sundvall. It stars Coen-bro’ regular Peter Stormare as the bad cop and
Wallander himself, Rolf Lassgard, as the good. Riding the rece…Read More...
Kiss Me follows the story of two women, one openly gay and the other engaged to a
man, as they develop a passionate and emotion filled relationship within
difficult circumstances. Far from a simple story of the develo…Read More...
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