The popularity of the genre has brought with it an influx of actors from Scandinavia, the likes of Connie Nielsen, Joel Kinnaman, Mads Mikkelsen, Rebecca Ferguson, Alicia Vikander, Peter Stormare, Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and the Skarsgård brood all familiar to UK audiences, by face, if not by name. Perfect English, Norse good looks (in the main) and initially lower salaries no doubt aided this expansion into Hollywood and beyond.īack in 2015, BBC1 went as far as importing the great Stellan Skarsgård to play guilt-ridden British detective John River, haunted by the shade of his murdered partner DS Stevenson (the ubiquitous Nicola Walker) in the 6-part thriller River. Still, there are a handful of stand-out titles that will no doubt endure. To an extent, Nordic Noir has become a victim of its success, with its familiar ingredients now drifting into cliché, as evidenced by the wholesale adoption of moody Nordic Noir conventions in UK crime dramas such as Marcella, Shetland, Hinterland, Annika, Keeping Faith and far too many others. There’s a good chance that the slow pacing, portentous dialogue, literal darkness, and angst of Nordic Noir influenced shows will seem to future generations as dated as episodes of Z-Cars are to us.
NEO NOIR FILMS MOVIE
Since the literary, TV and movie phenomenon of Nordic Noir first broke out from its Scandinavian confines in the 2000s, the genre has become an established part of UK culture, along with cosy lifestyle cousins hygge, lagom and lykke. With the recent Netflix release of Jake Gyllenhaal’s nordic-inspired The Guilty, as the nights draw in, what better time for a smorgasbord of films from the land of the midnight sun? The Guilty is a remake of the 2018 Danish film of the same name about a troubled 911 operator who attempts to come to the rescue of a distressed caller.
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