Article: `Insomnia': Murder's Glaring Light

"Insomnia" is a murder mystery in which the crime is folded six ways and put where the sun do shine.

That would be Norway, land of the midnight sun, too many strange B's and J's in words and no known national cuisine. Plus, they invented the Weejun loafer! They also seem to have invented a new film genre, clearly envisioned as the opposite of film noir. "Insomnia," directed by Erik Skjoldbjaerg, is a kind of film blanc, in which the perpetual blaze of noon comes to feel like a judgment from God, driving people quietly mad, spinning them off further into utter craziness. It asks the existential question, Where do you hide if there are no shadows?

That is detective Engstrom's problem: ...

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