Skarsgard persuades us to empathize with Engstrom while never flinching from the ruthlessness the man displays in protecting himself. Plaguing his effort to keep a grip on himself is his insomnia, heightened by the fact that he’s wound up in the land of the midnight sun during the summer-in a hotel without blackout blinds and drapes. Skarsgard’s Engstrom, who had left his native Sweden in the wake of a scandal, becomes a man who switches from investigating to covering up. But incomplete information on the part of the local police force causes the plan to backfire tragically, and “Insomnia” turns into a harrowing portrait of a man struggling against disintegration as he strives to conduct his investigation with his customary authority.īy now moviegoers know well the impact and range of Skarsgard among his better known recent films are “Breaking the Waves,” in which he played the warm, earthy oil rigger who meets a shocking fate, and “Good Will Hunting,” in which he was an MIT mathematics professor jealous of Matt Damon’s untutored genius. Her death brings to a town in the north of Norway a pair of veteran Oslo police investigators, Jonas Engstrom (Stellan Skarsgard) and Erik Vik (Sverre Anker Ousdal).Įngstrom, celebrated in his field, takes charge of the investigation and swiftly devises a plan to snare the young woman’s killer. As the opening titles unreel for “Insomnia,” an imaginative psychological thriller from Norway that demands total attention, we glimpse a pretty young woman meeting a grisly fate.
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