Gemma Chan and Carla Juri had once been very close friends, but have drifted apart. Now Miss Juri is burying her much older husband, and sees Mss Chan, who vanishes. When she reappears, they renew their friendship in a tentative manner, and Miss Juri asks Miss Chan to help kill her husband.
The second of three movies based on Håkan Nesser's short story collection is not as intricately plotted as the first, but it lives in the unspoken details, the expressions on peoples' faces, and the impeccably clean and detailed, upper class world these people live in, like an Éric Rohmer film. An air of anomie suffuses the movie, which tends to make it less compelling to me, but there's little doubt that director Daniel Alfredson accomplishes what he set out to do, which is to involve the audience by making them fill in the unspoken and unshown details.
The second of three movies based on Håkan Nesser's short story collection is not as intricately plotted as the first, but it lives in the unspoken details, the expressions on peoples' faces, and the impeccably clean and detailed, upper class world these people live in, like an Éric Rohmer film. An air of anomie suffuses the movie, which tends to make it less compelling to me, but there's little doubt that director Daniel Alfredson accomplishes what he set out to do, which is to involve the audience by making them fill in the unspoken and unshown details.
