He examines the corpse and comes up with some leads without showing the slightest bit of emotion. The case is taken on by Jonas Engström (Stellan Skarsgård), a middle-aged Swedish cop on assignment in Norway who is jaded to the evils of the world. It is the work of a perfectionist, who is so exacting as to shampoo the hair of the deceased to hide evidence of his crime. The film opens with the murder of a teenaged girl named Tanja Lorentzen.
But it does boast a spot in The Criterion Collection, as only the first of Nolan's films ( Following) does. Insomnia, the 1997 Norwegian film that Nolan remade, is far less well-known and only slightly better regarded. Nolan's third feature was well-received critically and a solid performer at the box office, but it's kind of an unremarkable stepping stone from the filmmaker's innovative name-making backwards neo-noir Memento to the start of his epic Dark Knight trilogy.
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That visually bright, thematically dark Alaskan murder mystery stands as Nolan's by far lowest-rated directorial effort on the Internet Movie Database, a site whose users currently rank six of his films among the 104 greatest ever made. The only film to date that Christopher Nolan has directed without also writing is 2002's Insomnia.
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