When, in the opening minutes of Natatorium, a fresh-faced teen arrives at a blocky modernist showplace of a house, it seems she’s checking in to a swanky Airbnb. But the well-appointed dwelling, where an oppressively dark glacial blue predominates, turns out to be the unwholesome home of the grandparents she hasn’t seen in years. Estrangement and silence are the guiding principles within this hermetically sealed universe, which, as the title of Helena Stefánsdóttir’s drama indicates, contains an indoor swimming pool. “Don’t go into the basement” would be a handy subtitle. Not that the upper floors offer much refuge.
In a movie that ultimately centers on a trinity of female kin at cross-purposes — visiting Lilja, her formidable grandmother and moderately rebellious aunt — the 18-year-old outsider is the catalyst for the revelations and unraveling to come. Traveling from her island home, Lilja (Ilmur María Arnarsdóttir) arrives in the city by bus,...
In a movie that ultimately centers on a trinity of female kin at cross-purposes — visiting Lilja, her formidable grandmother and moderately rebellious aunt — the 18-year-old outsider is the catalyst for the revelations and unraveling to come. Traveling from her island home, Lilja (Ilmur María Arnarsdóttir) arrives in the city by bus,...
- 2/5/2024
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jacob Groth is the composer of the new CBS crime drama Unforgettable. The show is based on J. Robert Lennon’s short story The Rememberer and adapted for television by Ed Redlich (Withot a Trace) and John Bellucci. The series stars Poppy Montgomery as a former New York City police detective who suffers from hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to remember everything. Dylan Walsh (Nip/Tuck), Kevin Rankin (Trauma), Michael Gaston and Daya Vaidaya are co-starring. Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman (Kidnapped) are producing the project with Redlch and Bellucci. Niels Arden Oplev directed the pilot. Groth has previously scored the director’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Unforgettable marks the Danish composer’s first major scoring assignment in the Us. The show is set to debut on September 20, 2011 and will be airing every Tuesday night on CBS. For updates, visit the official Unforgettable website.
- 9/1/2011
- by filmmusicreporter
- Film Music Reporter
With the upcoming big budget American remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo looming ominously upon the horizon—starring James Bond 007 Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara—it seems fitting at this time to once again reflect upon the Millennium series of films…before they’re inevitably ruined by the lowest common denominator mainstream.Composer Jacob Groth scored the music for all three films, and is actually still reveling in all of the attention placed upon these original Swedish adaptations, released only last year to widespread acclaim.“I’m thrilled that...
- 10/8/2010
- by George Pacheco, Cape Cod Movie Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
With a big budget Hollywood remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo looming on the horizon, now seems to be a perfect time to reflect once again upon director Niels Arden Oplev's masterful Millennium Trilogy of films, specifically Danish composer Jacob Groth's equally engaging score. Freshly released on Silva Screen Records, this collection highlights selections from all three of Oplev's films, but pays particular focus to the second and third in the trilogy, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. Groth's attention to orchestral detail...
- 9/16/2010
- by george.m.pacheco
- Examiner Movies Channel
The Girl Who Played With Fire is the second installment in a trilogy of films adapted from the books by Stieg Larsson, proving to be one of the most entertaining and epic mysteries to hit theaters in some time. This second film is directed by Daniel Alfredson and continues the story of Lisbeth Salander, the enigmatic and smart young woman caught within a string a tragically appalling circumstances. However, unlike in the first film, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, this film is told more from the controversial reporter Mikael Blomkvist.s point-of-view, but the plot remains primarily focused on Lisbeth.s story.
If you haven.t already seen The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. then shame on you! As one of the most highly-acclaimed and widely-appealing foreign films in recent memory, seeing the first film is also crucial to fully appreciating the second, as the films create an ongoing...
If you haven.t already seen The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. then shame on you! As one of the most highly-acclaimed and widely-appealing foreign films in recent memory, seeing the first film is also crucial to fully appreciating the second, as the films create an ongoing...
- 7/9/2010
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is not your mother.s formulaic mystery novel of the month, nor is it an old school Sherlock Holmes mystery of a bygone era. This is a mystery with so much more. More mystery, more depth and intrigue, just more in general, but its all there for a reason and its there to enhance the viewer.s overall cinematic experience.
The films was directed by Niels Arden Oplev and based upon the best-selling novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. Michael Nyqvist plays a middle-aged, high-profile journalist named Mikael Blomkvist. The film opens on his being convicted of libelous reporting on a high-powered corporate businessman, accusing him of using his businesses as a cover for illegal cartel endeavors and arms smuggling. Thus begins one layer of this multi-layered mystery.
Parallel to this story is the introduction of the wild child Lisbeth Salander, played by Noomi Rapace,...
The films was directed by Niels Arden Oplev and based upon the best-selling novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. Michael Nyqvist plays a middle-aged, high-profile journalist named Mikael Blomkvist. The film opens on his being convicted of libelous reporting on a high-powered corporate businessman, accusing him of using his businesses as a cover for illegal cartel endeavors and arms smuggling. Thus begins one layer of this multi-layered mystery.
Parallel to this story is the introduction of the wild child Lisbeth Salander, played by Noomi Rapace,...
- 4/9/2010
- by Travis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
[With pan-Nordic thriller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo screening at SXSW we now re-post our earlier review from the film's appearance in Leeds.]
Yes, it comes with baggage. How could it not? In one sense Swedish author Stieg Larsson assured himself a place in history when he died of a massive heart attack shortly after delivering the manuscripts for the Millennium trilogy to his publishers. He never lived to see the skyrocketing worldwide sales that followed, much less the three planned film adaptations.
While a film can and arguably should exist free of any literary inspiration, understanding something of Larsson's background as a crusading left-wing journalist and how this informed his fiction does help in appreciating the strengths and weaknesses of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first film in the trilogy. Girl would presumably have done Larsson proud but, like his novel, it crams a frustrating amount of information in seemingly without knowing when to stop and disappointingly, the disparity between its technical mastery and genre roots prove to its detriment rather too often.
Yes, it comes with baggage. How could it not? In one sense Swedish author Stieg Larsson assured himself a place in history when he died of a massive heart attack shortly after delivering the manuscripts for the Millennium trilogy to his publishers. He never lived to see the skyrocketing worldwide sales that followed, much less the three planned film adaptations.
While a film can and arguably should exist free of any literary inspiration, understanding something of Larsson's background as a crusading left-wing journalist and how this informed his fiction does help in appreciating the strengths and weaknesses of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first film in the trilogy. Girl would presumably have done Larsson proud but, like his novel, it crams a frustrating amount of information in seemingly without knowing when to stop and disappointingly, the disparity between its technical mastery and genre roots prove to its detriment rather too often.
- 3/12/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Four composers and scores have been nomimated for the 2009 European Film Award, which will be handed out at a gala event in Bochum on December 12. The four nominations for the ‘European Composer 2009′ went to Alexandre Desplat for Coco Before Chanel, Jacob Groth for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Alberto Iglesias for Broken Embraces and Johan Söderqvist for Let the Right One In (which is also nominated ...
- 11/9/2009
- by Mikael Carlsson
- MovieScore Magazine
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