Sunday, June 3, 2012

Wallander: The Village Idiot 2005

Product Details      A man with long braids and an American Indian-style feather in his hair walks into a bank with what looks like a bomb around his neck.  He demands an exact sum of money be transferred to another bank account.  The bomb is real and it soon becomes obvious that someone is exploiting this man.  He is known in the village as being intellectually handicapped.  Kurt Wallander and his colleagues face a long and complicated investigation requiring an understanding of astrology.
     Hopefully this title is more compassionate in Swedish than it is in English?  Complicated, who is behind what happened in the bank, how could they have let this happen?  You wonder throughout the film how this is going to end?  4* (I really liked this movie)

90 min, Crime directed by Kjell-Ake Andresson with Krister Henriksson, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Mats Bergman, Stina Ekblad, Marianne Morck, Douglas Johansson, Lena Endre, Ola Rapace, Sverrir Gudnason, Nina Zanjani, Goran Aronsson.

Note:  Not listed on Blockbuster, imdb 7.1 out of 10, no critic review 65% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

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