Movies and Shows

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

"The subtitles don't exactly match the text", I whispered in the ear of my friend Grant. "And isn't it great that we can recognise this?", he responded. We were sitting in the Dendy Cinema at Newtown watching the third and final in the Millenium series by Stieg Larsson. Grant has read the books in English, and I'm about half way through a chapter in the first book in Swedish (it's taking a while). Both of us have been learning Swedish for some time, and both agreed it was a bit of a … [Read more...]

The boy who loved schlager

Girl who played with fire movie poster at Dendy, Newtown, Sydney

Grant and I went to see "The Girl Who Played With Fire" at the Dendy in Newtown, this afternoon. It's the second film in the Stieg Larsson "Millenium" trilogy that has already screened on Swedish TV, but which has been a cinema release here in Australia. I found the first film quite hard work - perhaps because I first saw it in Swedish without English subtitles - but absolutely loved this one. Although it's about two hours in length, it flew by, and I never found myself … [Read more...]

Det blir svårt

Män som hatar kvinnor

"Det blir svårt". "It becomes difficult" in Swedish is how I'd sum up my day. On the way home from work, I was armed with a copy of "Män som hatar kvinnor" - "Men who hate women" - the original Swedish language hardback of the first book in Stieg Larsson's Millenium Series. The English language title, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is obviously far less controversial. Although I've seen two of the movies, and have seen the exhibition at the Stockholm City Museum, I haven't read the … [Read more...]

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