#Nordic-Noir

[fukutomichi]

Dark Corners (2021) directed by Richard Parry Sam Hazeldine as Jack Strachan

[benreyfaggot]

Hear me out cake

This took me 20 minutes to make

[asgoodeasgold]

Twenty years of Matthew Goode in chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro (light & dark, clair-obscur) - a technique in art that accentuates the contrast between light and shadow.

I love this effect in photography, cinematography and paintings and I think it suits Matthew's timeless features and broody gaze perfectly.

This makes my heart sing frankly 🖤🤍🖤

I am hoping for much dark and light atmosphere in Department Q, it's a Nordic Noir after all! Hopefully the basement office and Edinburgh's Northern light will help lol.

📷 My edits from A Suitable Vengeance (2003), The Lookout (2008), A Discovery of Witches (2022) s3:06 and Freud's Last Session (2023)

[useless-denmarkfacts]

Happy solstice and welcome to the time of year when the weather apps start noting how much the day has increased, which is a lot less depressive than this nonsense:

[starcrossedjedis]

Sakari Nurmi & Sofia Karppi - Deadwind 01x03 "Maailmanparantaja"

just two new partners casually staring at each other's appartments across the river at the same time

[siveydensipuli]

Nordic noir -bingo

[canned-peaches-and-rain]

[greykolla-art]

Detective Carl Mørk and his two feral cats, Assad and Rose.🤗❤️❤️❤️

[silverior968]

It's my fic and I get to write two full length ghost stories set in-universe for the characters to tell each other

[beauty-proof]

[beautyarchive]

Hilary Swank in Insomnia (2002).

It's unusual to come across a remake that's more interesting than the original (a Scandinavian movie from 1997). Hilary Swank's Ellie is very sweet, naively hero-worshipping Al Pacino's Will Dormer, a bit like Lenina Huxley with John Spartan in Demolition Man, but at the same time she's very capable and honourable.

[karilapio]

Here's my nordic noir OCs

Hapan Korpu and Salmari Blåhajsonderson

[nordic-noire]

'Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.'

[asgoodeasgold]

Meet the characters & cast of Department Q

Netflix's new Nordic noir crime thriller currently in production.

I have made some cast cards so we can remember who is who.

🔸️Carl Morck, The former top-rated detective - Matthew Goode

🔸️Merrit Linguard, The ruthless prosecutor - Chloe Pirrie

🔸️Akram Salim, The mysterious assistant - Alexej Manvelov

🔸️Dr Rachel Irving, The smart therapist - Kelly Macdonald

🔸️Rose, The troubled rookie - Leah Byrne

🔸️Mark Bonnar as Stephen, Shirley Henderson as Clare Marsh, Jamie Sives as DS Hardy & Kate Dickie as Moira

📷 All photos & text from Netflix, apart from photo of Matthew Goode by Simon Emmett (via matthew-goode.net). Character descriptors my own.

[clatterbane]

I'm just trying to rewatch Bordertown after Netflix pulled it here, and ran across this.

And that’s what I love about these characters. They are flawed people with human qualities that are well represented and valuable to not just autistic people, not anyone viewing. You might not know anyone like them, but autistics have picked up on their characteristics and feel a kinship with them. They aren’t presented as robots or sexless superhumans, they are real people in society that have a whole personality that isn’t just their “quirks”.

I’ve seen a better ‘accidental’ representation of autism from these two shows than I have from Australian, English, and North American shows combined! Sure, they both have the same job which can be seen as typical of their gifts, but the way they have been written and performed has really touched me and has made me feel respected and included. I urge you to watch both if you can (subs are better than the dubs but you do you). I know Bordertown is on Netflix and if you’re Australian, The Bridge is on Stan.

I tend to like Nordic Noir anyway, but yeah I think this does have something to do with why I particularly enjoyed both of these series.

Sofia Helin's portrayal of Saga honestly just kept reminding me a lot of my aunt if she were from my generation, Swedish, and had taken a rather different path in life. (And no freaking wonder I felt like I understood her better even as a kid than a lot of other people seemed to. We used to be close, before she got her mad on at me years ago.)

Though I personally end up resonating more with Kari Sorjonen. And it's probably just as well--for so many reasons--that I never even considered going cop as a career option.

But yeah, both of these characters do just come across as "some people are like that" portrayals of actual people getting on with their own complicated lives. (And, honestly, within social contexts where coming across as kinda standoffish at times really does seem less likely to get in your way so much as in some other places.) Some of us really are Like That, and the ones who can keep it together enough do seem to often be drawn into certain fields.