The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

From Friday 12th to Thursday 25th March

2hrs 33. Sweden/Denmark/Germany 2009. Directed by Niels Arden Oplev. With Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Peter Haber. With English subtitles.

Based on the first book of Swedish writer Stieg Larsson’s bestselling Millennium trilogy, and set in contemporary Sweden, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo stars the popular Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist as Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist hired by a wealthy businessman to investigate the disappearance of his niece 40 years earlier. Blomkvist – with the help of the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Naomi Rapace) – links the disappearance to a number of grotesque murders and begins to unravel a dark and appalling family history. The Millennium novels are probably the biggest international phenomenon to emerge from Sweden since Abba, and director Niels Arden Oplev finds some elegant visual shortcuts for Larsson’s exposition-heavy prose in this accessible thriller.