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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, with subtitles)

If you have been reading Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy (26 million books sold worldwide, and counting), you know all about Lisbeth Salander, the bisexual, antisocial, punked out, leather jacketed, world class computer hacker in the title.  Lately released in America is the Swedish film of book the first, and I am happy to say it’s a smashing artistic success.   Oh, some of the subplots are truncated (in one case the change improves the story; in another, an important theme is lost) and minor changes are made to plot, but mostly this film gets the atmosphere right, and it gets Lisbeth (Noomi Rapace) and investigative reporter Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) right.

Beware, if you have not read the book, as it’s a dark and sometimes unpleasantly violent tale.  But it is a great thriller about a cold case that comes to life – the disappearance of 16 year-old Harriet Vanger some 40 years earlier.  The same director and cast have already filmed books two and three, and that’s a good thing.

Apparently a Hollywood version of Dragon Tattoo is in the works.  My strongest instinct is to shudder at the prospect of George Clooney, Johnny Depp, or Brad Pitt (all rumored to be seeking the part) playing Blomkvist.  Go see the Swedish film while you can.