When Julia Davidsson (Lena Endre) returns in 1993 to the island where she grew up, and where her five-year-old son went missing more than twenty years earlier, she finds her father (Tord Peterson) busy with a little sleuthing on his own. A thriller from the people who turned Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” novels into films. The desolate, flat countryside of the island and constantly dark skies bring character to the story, and the cast is fine, but the film is strangely void of any suspense and doesn’t do anything with its potential for horror. A pity; the novel is quite a page-turner.
2013-Sweden. 97 min. Color. Widescreen. Directed by Daniel Alfredson. Screenplay: Daniel Alfredson, Birgitta Bongenhielm. Novel: Johan Theorin. Cast: Lena Endre (Julia Davidsson), Tord Peterson (Gerlof Davidsson), Thomas W. Gabrielsson (Lennart), Stefan Gödicke, Eva Fritjofson, Björn Andersson… Magnus Roosmann, Ted Åström.
Trivia: Original title: Skumtimmen.
