Insomnia - Criterion Collection
by Erik Skjoldbj?rg
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Actor: Gisken Armand, Kristian Figenschow, Maria Mathiesen, Stellan Skarsg?rd, Sverre Anker OusdalDirector: Erik Skjoldbj?rg
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: Norwegian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Swedish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-07-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
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Summary of Insomnia - Criterion Collection
Disgraced Swedish detective Jonas Engstr?m (Stellan Skarsg?rd) travels to northern Norway to solve a brutal murder in Insomnia. Unable to sleep through the night of the midnight sun, Engstr?m quickly loses his grip on the case and his mind. Erik Skjoldbj?rg's debut feature is a deft amalgam of psychological thriller, morality play, and police procedural. Criterion presents the DVD premiere of Insomnia in a new widescreen transfer.This 1997 film from Norway and neophyte director Erik Skjoldbj?rg delivers the goods with unsettling effectiveness. It's an intense, smart, and taut thriller if only because what it eerily implies is creepier than the film's reality. Opening with a churning, chilling murder of a young woman, Insomnia invites the viewer--as well as its protagonist, celebrated Oslo homicide cop Jonas Engstr?m (Stellan Skarsg?rd)--into the mind and thoughts of a killer by making Engstr?m fatally flawed himself. While in pursuit of the murderer, Engstr?m makes a mistake; he accidentally shoots his partner and friend and covers up his deed in a panic. But he overlooks a minor detail: the real killer has seen him commit the crime. What ensues is a layered, complex, and unnerving descent into chaos, brought on by the inability to sleep in this land of the midnight sun. Engstr?m suffers from insomnia, which warps his logic and resolve, and before long he's totally unraveled and unsure of his every move. But not before a twisty transference and countertransference occurs between cop and killer. The two play a game of high-stakes one-upmanship that surprises in the end. Insomnia is fresh and psychologically bent, full of Scandinavian despair and dark humor, and it boasts a film noir pulse beneath its blinding light. --Paula Nechak
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