Nolan worked closely with Skjodberg on the screenplay but set the film in Alaska instead of Norway. Christopher Nolan, of 'Memento' fame, directed this taut and atmospheric crime thriller, a remake of a 1997 Norwegian film. a 2002 remake of the 1997 Norwegian film, showcased Nolans fascination with telling multi-genre stories.
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The film is an American remake of Norwegian director Erik Skjodberg’s 1997 movie and had its first European outing at the last Festival of Locarno. Christopher Nolans Insomnia, a 2002 remake of the 1997 Norwegian film.
Williams' character has supernatural powers and as he realises that Donovan is getting closer to solving the case, he uses them to penetrate the detective’s mind and induce an almost permanent state of insomnia. In this elegantly unsettling murder mystery, Stellan Skarsgard plays an enigmatic Swedish detective with a checkered past who arrives in a small town in northern Norway to investigate the death of a teenage girl. It is called Insomnia and stars Al Pacino as detective Martin Donovan who is working a case about a thriller writer who also happens to be a serial killer, played by an excellent Robin Williams in a rare appearance as a baddie. The latest film by London-born director, Christopher Nolan, is a remake of Erik Skjodberg’s 1997 movie, and is scheduled for a pan-European release starting in Norway on August 23īritish director Christopher Nolan is back with a new film two years after his international hit, Memento.
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