Flickan som lekte med elden (The Girl Who Played with Fire) (2009)
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Writers: Jonas Frykberg, Stieg Larsson (novel)
Studios: Nordisk Film, Sveriges Television, Yellow Bird Films, ZDF Enterprises, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
129 min.
Noomi Rapace steals the show again in Fire, part two of Stieg Larsson’s trilogy on violence against women. Alfredson (who also helms part three) takes over directing duties from Dragon Tattoo’s Oplev, preserving his grim color palate and expert pacing. While the plot, in which Millenium magazine editors tackle a human trafficking ring, doesn’t have the claustrophobic hysteria that made part one so nail-biting (it was like something Agatha Christie would have written if she’d lived to see the computer age), Rapace has made Lisbeth Salander one of the most compelling film characters in recent memory, no easy feat considering she hardly ever talks, smiles, or willingly opens up to any other human being—not even her former lover Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) who’s trying to save her life. This punk-rock post-feminist never panders to the fanboy crowd by being an easily classifiable comic book-lite femme fatale. She’s trying to survive, not be a badass. Let’s hope that rules out an inane video game adaptation. B+
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