↓ What Millenium (the film) is not

After a bestselling trilogy and a lot of buzz you expect from a Swedish director (Niels Arden ) to recreate Millenium’s thrilling atmosphere in every single detail. Unfortunately this cinematic adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s first book is more like an ordinary telefilm rather than a serious attempt to adapt the latest European thriller phenomena.

Probably because the initial idea was to keep adapting the other two books of this misogynous declaration into a tv series the final result is this poor.

Two and a half hours condensing nearly 600 pages leaves inevitably too many things aside… Mikael’s love stories (with Erika or Céclia) are hardly suggested, the Wennerström plot takes less than 2 minutes to get resolved “magically”… a series would have definitely been a better choice. Kind of a European superproduction sold to several tv channels.

On the other hand there were also several things that Mr Arden got right….

The main characters, Noomi Rapace is a perfect choice for that androgynous and introverted character called Lisbeth Salander. Moves quickly, reacts even faster, impulsively and fits perfect into Lisbeth’s description. Michael Nyqvist on his side can pass for this Nordic seducer called Super Blomkvist. The rest of the cast… well like in every film there are rights (Peter Andersson or Peter Haber) and wrongs (Marika Lagercrantz).

The locations and sets , obviously you have to get it right if you’re Swedish…

Ok so maybe some sacrifices had to be done in order to keep the film alive, for those who’ve never read the book this is just “another mediocre telefilm”, for the rest of us : a faithful telefilm with some big holes.

Hope the next two will be just as accurate, a bit darker and way more psychological. Lisbeth deserves it.

See you @ Rennes

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