November 25, 2014 (Series 29:14) Erik Skjoldbjærg, INSOMNIA (1997, 96 minutes)

Directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg Written by Nikolaj Frobenius and Erik Skjoldbjærg Produced by Tomas Backström, Petter J. Borgli, and Tom Remlov Music by Geir Jenssen Cinematography by Erling Thurmann-Andersen Film Editing by Håkon Øverås

Maria Mathiesen ... Tanja Lorentzen Stellan Skarsgård ... Jonas Engström Sverre Anker Ousdal ... Erik Vik Gisken Armand ... Hilde Hagen Kristian Figenschow ... Arne Zakariassen Thor Michael Aamodt ... Tom Engen Frode Rasmussen ... Chief of Police Erling Thurmann-Andersen (cinematographer) (b. June Bjørn Moan ... Eilert 12, 1945—d. November 3, 2002 (age 57) in Oslo, Norway) Maria Bonnevie ... Ane has 45 cinematography credits, including 2003 Jonny Vang, Marianne O. Ulrichsen ... Frøya 2001 Strawberries with Real Milk, 2001 Prozac Nation, 1999 Bjørn Floberg ... Jon Holt Eva's Eye, 1999 Misery Harbour, 1997 Insomnia, 1996 “Gåten Knut Hamsun” (TV Mini-Series), 1995 Vendetta, Erik Skjoldbjærg (director, writer) (b. December 14, 1964 1994 Just Do It (Short), 1992 Den demokratiske terroristen, in Tromsø, Norway) directed 10 films and TV shows, which 1991 Joker, 1990 Shipwrecked, 1989 Istanbul, 1987 are 2013 Pioneer, 2010 Nokas, 2007 “Størst av alt” (TV Pathfinder, 1986 Hard asfalt, 1985 Wives - Ten Years After, Mini-Series), 2005 An Enemy of the People, 2004 “Skolen” 1984 Paper Bird, 1983 Black Crows, 1980 Stop It!, 1979 (TV Series), 2001 Prozac Nation, 1997 Insomnia, 1996 Spor Heritage, 1978 The Second Shift, 1977 (Short), 1994 Close to Home (Short), and 1993 Vinterveien Kosmetikkrevolusjonen, 1977 Games of Love and Loneliness, (Short). He also wrote 7 films and TV shows: 2013 Pioneer, 1976 Oss, and 1973 Anton. 2005 An Enemy of the People, 2002 Insomnia (1997 screenplay), 1997 Insomnia, 1996 Spor (Short), 1994 Close Maria Mathiesen ... Tanja Lorentzen (b. 1978 in Tromsø, to Home (Short), and 1993 Vinterveien (Short). Norway) has only appeared in one film—1997 Insomnia.

Nikolaj Frobeniu (writer) (b. 1965 in Oslo, Norway) wrote Stellan Skarsgård ... Jonas Engström (b. John Stellan 8 films: 2013 Pioneer, 2011 Sons of Norway, 2005 An Enemy Skarsgård, June 13, 1951 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands of the People, 2004 Bok kokken (Video short), 2002 Folk län, Sweden) has appeared in 127 films and television shows, flest bor i Kina, 2002 Insomnia (1997 screenplay), and 2001 among them 2015 Cinderella, 2014 In Order of Dragonflies. Disappearance, 2013 Nymphomaniac: Vol. I, 2013 Nymphomaniac: Vol. II, 2013 The Physician, 2013 Thor: The

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Dark World, 2013 Romeo & Juliet, 2013 The Railway Man, Bjørn Floberg ... Jon Holt (b. September 12, 1947 in Oslo, 2013 “Rouge Brésil” (TV Mini-Series), 2012 “Playhouse Norway) has appeared in 72 films and TV shows, among Presents” (TV Series), 2012 The Avengers, 2011 The Girl them 2014 The Hunt for Berlusconi, 2012 90 Minutes, 2012 with the Dragon Tattoo, 2011 Melancholia, 2010 Moomins Varg Veum - Kalde Hjerter, 2012 Varg Veum - De døde har and the Comet Chase, 2010 Frankie & Alice, 2010 “Arn: The det godt, 2011 Varg Veum - I mørket er alle ulver grå, 2011 Knight Templar” (TV Mini-Series, 6 episodes), 2009 Boogie Varg Veum - Dødens drabanter, 2011 Varg Veum - Svarte Woogie, 2009 Angels & Demons, 2008 “Entourage” (TV får, 2010-2011 “Drottningoffret” (TV Mini-Series), 2010 Series), 2008 Mamma Mia!, 2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: “Maria Wern” (TV Series), 2010 “Kennedy's Brain” (TV At World's End, 2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Movie), 2010 A Somewhat Gentle Man, 2008 Varg Veum - Chest, 2005 Beowulf & Grendel, 2004 Exorcist: The Begravde hunder (Video), 2008 Varg Veum: Woman in the Beginning, 2004 King Arthur, 2003 Dogville, 2002 No Good Fridge (Video), 2008 Fallen Angels, 2008 Varg Veum - Din Deed, 2001 Taking Sides, 2000 “Harlan County War” (TV til døden (Video), 2008 Cold Lunch, 2008 Varg Veum - Movie), 2000 Dancer in Tornerose the Dark, 1998 Ronin, (Video), 2007 1997 Amistad, 1997 Varg Veum - Insomnia, 1996 Breaking Bitre blomster, the Waves, 1993 The 2004-2006 “The Slingshot, 1990 Good Eagle” (TV Evening, Mr. Wallenberg, Series, 7 1990 The Hunt for Red episodes), 2004 October, 1988 The Perfect Uno, 2003 Murder, 1982 The Simple- Immediate Minded Murderer, 1977 Boarding, 2003 Taboo, 1975 Swedish Sex Kitchen Stories, Games, 1973 Anita: 2002 Music for Swedish Nymphet, 1972 Weddings and Strandhugg i somras, and Funerals, 2002 1968 “Bombi Bitt och jag” “Shackleton” (TV Series). (TV Movie), 2000 Beyond, Sverre Anker Ousdal ... 2000 The Diver, Erik Vik (b. July 18, 1944 in Norway) has appeared in 74 1999 The Honour of the House, 1999 Sophie's World, 1998 films and TV shows, including 2014 The Veil of Twilight, Bloody Angels, 1997 Eye of the Eagle, 1997 Insomnia, 1997 2010 Wide Blue Yonder, 2005 The Secret Life of Words, The Last Viking, 1995 Shut Up and Listen!, 1994 Cross My 2004 The Crossing, 2002 Everybody Loves Alice, 2002 Heart and Hope to Die, 1993 The Telegraphist, 1990 Familjen (TV Series, 12 episodes), 2000 The 7 Deadly Sins, Herman, 1988 Blücher, 1985 Øye for Øye, 1979 The Crown 1999 Eva's Eye, 1997 Insomnia, 1996 Hamsun, 1996 The Prince, 1979 Blood of the Railroad Workers, 1977 The Silent North Star, 1990 The March, 1988 Sweetwater, 1988 “Beryl Majority, and 1973 “Barselstuen” (TV Movie). Markham: A Shadow on the Sun” (TV Movie), 1985 Orion's Belt, 1984 The Chieftain, 1979 The Crown Prince, 1977 The Jonathan Romney: “Insomnia: Unbearable Lightness” Silent Majority, 1974 Knutsen & Ludvigsen, and 1974 The (Criterion Notes) Island at the Top of the World. The 1997 Norwegian detective thriller Insomnia is a paradoxical object—as director and cowriter Erik Gisken Armand ... Hilde Hagen (b. 1962) has appeared in Skjoldbjærg has described it, “a reversed film noir with light, 25 films and TV shows, some of which are 2012-2014 not darkness, as its dramatic force.” Insomnia is so drenched “Lilyhammer” (TV Series), 2014 “Det tredje øyet” (TV in light that you could call it a film blanc—blanc meaning Series), 2012-2013 “Hjem” (TV Series, 15 episodes), 2012 “white” but also “blank,” given the film’s detached chill, as “Julekongen” (TV Series, 24 episodes), 2008 House of opaque as the features of its policeman antihero. Fools, 2007 “Størst av alt” (TV Mini-Series, 6 episodes), In the press notes for his debut feature, Skjoldbjærg 2007 “Codename Hunter” (TV Mini-Series, 6 episodes), commented, “Insomnia was inspired by a notion on secrecy: 2004-2005 “Johnny and Johanna” (TV Series, 10 episodes), when one chooses to conceal from others, one consequently 2004 Cry in the Woods, 2001-2003 “Fox Grønland” (TV risks losing one’s own perspective. Thus, having created a Series, 12 episodes), 1999 Eva's Eye, 1997 Insomnia, 1995 secret, it may involuntarily begin to occupy an increasing Kristin Lavransdatter, 1994 Cross My Heart and Hope to amount of one’s own attention.” Hence a drama in which Die, 1990 Twice Upon a Time, and 1988 S'il vous plait things—objects and personal secrets alike—tend to remain (Short). tantalizingly concealed, and yet in which there are few hiding Skjoldbjærg—INSOMNIA—3

places. For this film’s universe is constantly, intensely Why does he not just confess and explain that the shooting exposed to the glare of daylight—even when it is supposedly was an unavoidable accident? Though there are inklings that nighttime. he may in part be trying to hide the fact that he was carrying The setting is Skjoldbjærg’s hometown of Tromsø, a gun—something police are not allowed to do in Norway— in northern Norway, about two hundred miles north of the the film never makes this entirely clear, which is part of its Arctic Circle, a place that from spring to late summer has no fascination. In the 2002 U.S. remake, directed by Christopher real night. This is the setting for what is ostensibly a murder Nolan, the mixed motives of the Engström figure are clearly mystery—but the killer’s identity emerges relatively quickly, foregrounded: it is intimated that he may have shot his and the focus of the story then shifts to the psyche of the partner because he was about to testify against him in an detective, tormented by the constant light. In a telling line, Internal Affairs investigation. the murderer recounts how his victim died: “She slept and By contrast, why Engström might have wanted, even slept and slept . . .” In Insomnia—to use a phrase with the unconsciously, to kill Vik remains nebulous. But Vik’s death ring of the pulpiest paperback title—only the dead sleep well. is the point at which Engström’s disturbance begins to fully In a brief prologue, shot on Super 8, we witness the emerge. Torn by his contradictory activity—working to violent death of seventeen-year-old Tanja Lorentzen (Maria uncover one truth while hiding another—the policeman is Mathiesen), followed by the killer covering up the traces of increasingly troubled, his days and nights haunted by his crime. After the film’s title hallucinations, notably of appears, we see two men flying to the dead but still garrulous Tromsø to investigate the case. Vik. They are Norwegian policeman Meanwhile, Erik Vik (Sverre Anker Ousdal) Tanja’s killer—local and senior investigator Jonas thriller writer Jon Holt Engström (Stellan Skarsgård), a (Bjørn Floberg)—seems to Swede now working in Norway. know more about the Soon after their arrival, the film detective’s psyche than he hints at the disgrace that caused knows himself. Holt Engström to leave Sweden: his emerges on a metaphorical Norwegian colleagues gossip level as a sort of about his being found in bed with tormenting doppelgänger, a the chief witness in a case. If living embodiment of Engström is in disgrace, though, Engström’s bad conscience he hides it well: solemn, highly organized, and neatly (after all, what is a crime writer’s vocation if not to keep dressed, he walks and talks as befits his image as a top people awake?). Following a tense pursuit, the adversaries detective. The knowingly bland impassivity of much of start to collude in “rewriting” the Tanja case, planning to Skarsgård’s performance presents us with a waxy, masklike plant evidence to incriminate the dead girl’s boyfriend. exterior that can’t entirely be trusted. His Engström comes As it develops, Insomnia becomes a story not so much about across as an ostensibly good but psychologically weak man, deciphering a mystery as about “writing” a new one. The open to corruption—which makes the character’s moments wall of Holt’s apartment is covered in sheets of paper and of breakdown and his irruptions of sexual brutality all the Post-it notes, presumably the plans for a novel, but it’s more disturbing. tempting to imagine that they really map out the intrigue of A stranger to the far north, Engström can’t get any Insomnia itself. The whiteness that floods the film is partly sleep, sunlight seeping into his hotel bedroom despite his the whiteness of the paper on which a crime narrative is increasingly absurd attempts to shut it out with adhesive tape written. and blankets. But it is suggested that his insomnia, which Insomnia is a complex drama, yet executed with makes Engström increasingly erratic, is also caused by a great stylistic economy and simplicity, through which restless conscience; and he soon has more to be restless Skjoldbjærg and his collaborators—including cowriter about. Hoping to flush out the killer, Engström organizes a Nikolaj Frobenius—develop a profound sense of enigma. stakeout of a hut near the sea, but his prey escapes through a The visual style, notably the use of whiteness, constantly tunnel (one of the film’s few moments of darkness), and the evokes the unreadability of Engström’s psyche, reversing the pursuit is foiled by deep fog that is as much metaphorical as convention of identifying the unconscious with darkness. climatic. As a result, Engström shoots a man he thinks is the Erling Thurmann-Andersen’s cinematography emphasizes fugitive, only to find that he has accidentally killed Vik. the daylit mundanity of the urban location, downplaying the Thereafter, he devotes his energies equally to pursuing natural grandeur of Tromsø and its environs. The setting Tanja’s murderer and to hiding his part in Vik’s death, going becomes a blank canvas for a study in white: Engström is to elaborate lengths to do so. frequently framed against windows that blaze with cold light, or placed in antiseptically clean, geometrically neat settings, Skjoldbjærg—INSOMNIA—4

notably Holt’s stark apartment, divided up into a Mondrian- adaptations. But though Nordic noir has recently become a like grid. globally recognizable brand, it is hardly a new phenomenon. The film repeatedly plays perceptual tricks on us. Scandinavia’s best-known detective writers, the Swedish duo Driving Tanja’s schoolmate Frøya (Marianne O. Ulrichsen) Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, began their internationally in his car, Engström can’t resist putting his hand on her successful Martin Beck detective series in 1965; in Insomnia, naked thigh—or can he? The close-up of his hand on her leg the cop Zakariassen is seen reading one of their books. is shot initially from his POV, then briefly from hers—but Insomnia may lack the social-political aspect so since the gesture is never integrated into a wider shot, we prominent in much recent Scandinavian crime fiction— can’t be sure whether this is really happening or is his sexual notably in Jo Nesbø’s novels about Norwegian cop Harry reverie. Similarly disorienting are a jump cut when Engström Hole. But the dysfunctional sleuths of the TV series The recounts the shooting of Vik, as if he is suddenly split in two Killing and The Bridge, not to mention Hole and Wallander, by his lying; a scene that seems at first a nightmare of have a close relative in Jonas Engström. Insomnia also brings Engström’s, then turns out to be the police reconstruction of into play another common theme—the ironic playing off of Vik’s death; and an national identities. In The interior shot toward the Bridge, for example, an end, in Holt’s seaside aggressive, macho Danish house, that uses a 360- cop is improbably paired degree pan to with a quasi-autistic disconcerting effect, Swedish female warping our sense of counterpart. Insomnia’s space and time. Such Swedish detective is exiled economical stylization and misunderstood; adds to Insomnia’s although it’s not usually subtly unnerving power, evident from the subtitles, and places it outside the much of the film plays on field of generic police accents and the similarities drama, bringing it and differences between closer to the glacial the Swedish and modernism of Norwegian languages Michelangelo Antonioni (following his address to (that 360-degree shot Tanja’s classmates, Frøya recalling the ending of The Passenger, or a scene in a taunts Engström that no one understood a word he was decaying shack similar to the cabin in Red Desert, another saying). fog-bound drama). Nolan’s Insomnia remake, from a script by Hillary Released internationally in 1998, Insomnia attracted Seitz, closely resembles the original, albeit with key much attention and was considered a prime exhibit in what differences. Notably, Nolan’s version emphasizes the appeared to be a resurgence in Norway’s cinema. Other psychological cat-and-mouse game between Al Pacino’s Norwegian filmmakers then emerging were Pål Sletaune, Detective Dormer and the Holt figure, played by Robin with the downbeat black comedy Junk Mail (1997); Bent Williams. The film also provides a fuller back-story, Hamer, who had made his debut with the surreal miniature involving a previous act of falsification by Dormer Eggs (1995); and Hans Petter Moland, who had cast (honorably motivated, it turns out) and the impending Skarsgård in his 1995 film Zero Kelvin. This new wave never investigation that threatens him. The experienced female cop quite sustained its initial momentum, although Hamer and Hilde Hagen (Gisken Armand), who sees through Engström, Moland, in particular, continue to have considerable profiles is replaced by a naive young officer (Hilary Swank) whose on the festival circuit. Skjoldbjærg, meanwhile, made an own sleuthing at last allows Dormer to reach a conventional uneasy transatlantic move with Prozac Nation (2001), then point of (to use those dreaded words) redemption and returned to Norway, reteaming with cowriter Frobenius on a closure—that is, he finally gets to close his eyes. modern-day version of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People in In Skjoldbjærg’s film, by contrast, the narrative 2005; his latest film, Pioneer (2013), is an energetic and background remains sketchy—a quality visually concretized fairly commercial hybrid of conspiracy drama and deep-sea by the literal absence of background in those shots that frame adventure. Engström against walls of light, making the man and the Insomnia now also looks very much like a founding text of world around him equally mysterious. As for closure, what can be called the new wave of “Nordic noir”—a Engström is not redeemed in any obvious sense: he meets an cinematic and literary phenomenon properly launched by the archetypal “good woman,” the angelic-featured hotel novels of Henning Mankell (the Wallander series) and Stieg proprietor Ane (Maria Bonnevie), who looks momentarily as Larsson (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and their screen if she is there to save him, but things end badly and Skjoldbjærg—INSOMNIA—5

grotesquely between them. If Engström is finally saved by was filmed in the director’s home town of Tromsø. “So many the completion of his investigation, it is only in the most crews had used the landscape in an epic manner,” he says, equivocal way. Will he get to close his eyes? At the end of “but I had never experienced that when growing up, so I the film, he drives away into the dark, but as the enigmatic (if wanted to give the film a sparse, unspectacular look. We somewhat gimmicky) final shot suggests, sleep comes less tried not to build classical compositions. Instead we wanted easily in Scandinavian thrillers than it does in Hollywood. the eye to wander, to create a certain discomfort, almost exasperation at the impenetrability of the enigma.” Peter Cowie: Insomnia (Criterion Notes) Insomnia represents European cinema at its most Those who felt that Scandinavian cinema had passed into challenging, experimenting with form and compelling the retirement along with Ingmar Bergman should be startled by viewer to enter its haunting world, where truth slips like an Insomnia. This immaculately constructed psychological eel through the fingers of a detective riding the edge of thriller sets a benchmark for other Scandinavian directors to hysteria. match, and is one of the most unusual and gripping films to have emerged from Europe in recent years. As a first feature film by its young director, Erik Skjoldbjærg, Insomnia was selected for the prestigious Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was hailed by critics from around the world. Starring Stellan Skarsgård (Breaking the Waves, Ronin, Good Will Hunting), the drama unfolds in the northernmost region of Norway, beyond the Arctic Circle. Here is a land where, in summer, the sun never sets. As a detective who travels to the coastal town of Tromsø to help solve a local murder, Skarsgård’s Jonas Engström finds himself taunted by locals and climate alike. He cannot sleep as the glaucous light of the midnight sun glares through his hotel window, and he loses himself---–and Roger Ebert: “Insomnia” his reason—in the fog-shrouded landscape. This all- In northern Norway in the summer, the night is a brief finger pervasive mist forms when the ocean is warmer than the air of dusk drawn between the day and the dawn. In his hotel above it. In the film it creates a mood of claustrophobia as room, Jonas the chief investigator struggles for sleep. He well as ambiguity. Did Engström kill his partner, Vik, during tugs at the blackout curtains, but the sunlight streams in at 2 a chase in some rocky wasteland? Is he really interested in a.m., and he is haunted by unease. He is a veteran Swedish the attractive receptionist at the hotel? Does he have a nasty policeman in exile, working out of Oslo after, in a previous skeleton in the closet of his past? case, being discovered in "intimate conversation'' with a Skjoldbjærg had been introduced to Skarsgård witness. through Hans Petter Moland, who had made Zero Kelvin His record is not clean, but he is considered a with the Swedish star. “The moment he walked through the brilliant investigator, and now he is hunting for a killer who door in Stockholm, I knew I had found the right actor,” says leaves no traces--who even washed the hair of his victim, an Skjoldbjærg. Like Jean-Louis Trintignant in Bertolucci’s The attractive young woman. After Jonas discovers the woman's Conformist or Marcello Mastroianni in Visconti’s adaptation knapsack in a shed on the beach, he sets a trap for the killer. of Camus’ The Stranger, Skarsgård creates a man who is He announces on TV that the knapsack is the key to the outwardly assured while harboring profound insecurities investigation, trusting that the killer will return to retrieve it. within. He cannot handle any kind of intimacy, nor can he And so the killer does--falling into Jonas' ambush. come to terms with his responsibility for the death of Vik. He But there is a way out of the shed that the police do not know sustains his identity by adhering to certain moral precepts; about, and the killer flees. Chasing him in a thick, morning once he has broken one of these principles, he becomes truly fog, Jonas sees a figure raise a gun, and shoots. Then he dangerous... discovers he has killed his own colleague. Insomnia may be accused by some of perpetrating Jonas is played by Stellan Skarsgard, the tall, the same sin as its antihero Engström, for its sleek editing thoughtful Scandinavian who first drew attention as the oil- and allusive dialogue leave the audience unnerved and rig worker in "Breaking the Waves'' and the math professor unable to distinguish between good and evil, guilt and in "Good Will Hunting.'' Here he looks thinner, haunted, innocence. But Skjoldbjærg should be given the benefit of unsure of himself. Working under the protective blanket of the doubt. A graduate of Britain’s National Film School, he fog, he fakes evidence to make it look as if the other was selected on instinct by the school’s founder, Colin policeman were shot by the escaping killer. Young, and impressed with two gripping short films, one So now we have a police procedural turned in upon shot in Norway (Near Winter) and the other in London itself. Jonas is leading the investigation while at the same (Close to Home), where he lived for some years. Insomnia time struggling with the guilty knowledge of his cover-up. Skjoldbjærg—INSOMNIA—6

His queries take him to a writer named Holt, very full of see himself as an honest man, and cannot trust that others himself, who had a relationship with the dead woman. And to would believe him. the woman's best friend Froya, whom he is attracted to. He It's easy to make movies with external action, chases takes her for a drive and slips his hand between her legs; will and shoot-outs. It is much harder to make a film in which this be another intimate conversation with a witness? His key many of the important events take place inside the minds of adversary is a fellow police officer, Ane (Maria Bonnevie). the characters. Much depends simply on where the actors are He is able to distract the other cops with routine and arranged in the frame, so that we can see one face and not exhortation, but Ane doesn't just look, she sees. She senses another. Jonas is sleepless and anguished. Ane is nagged by there is something off about Jonas, after the death of the doubts she cannot silence. other cop: a certain wariness, a way of changing the subject. The look of the film is almost a character in itself. Some of her questions do not get good answers. She looks The director, Erik Skjoldbjærg, looks for grays and browns, him in the face, and he doesn't like that. dark greens and a washed-out drabness. The midnight sun The movie is not a thriller or an action picture, but a casts an unremitting bright light, like the eye of God that will psychological study. "Crime and Punishment'' comes to not blink. There is no place to hide, not even in sleep. And all mind, with its theme of a man who believes he stands outside the time, of course, there is the killer, who is the real villain, the rules that apply to other people. It is not that Jonas is a but figures for Jonas more like a distraction from his shame. murderer—he made an honest mistake—but that he does not

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