I bought the movie version on DVD in China, probably about 10 years ago, just based on the English language blurb on the cover. I watched it once, and while it was okay, felt it didn’t live up to the promo hype.
Lucky I didn’t see the promo hype to be influenced by it.
Also there is probably a very different zeitgeist watching an anti-war show in Melbourne in the '80s vs in China 10 years ago.
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Have you read the original novel ?
Really enjoying the latest series of Sandhamn Murders.
Most Scandinavian crime drama is extremely dark and mordant. It might help that this series isalways shot in summer - no ice floes in the Stockholm archipelago.
And there’s something about Nora.
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No. I can’t read Czech.
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The Good Soldier Švejk and his Fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hašek -
“A new and unabridged translation by Cecil Parrott with the original illustrations by Josef Lada” - was published in Penguin Books in 1974. Four volumes of a projected six were published, but the work was cut short by the death of the author in 1923. At 752 pages, it’s not short, but well worth reading. I was at Uni when I discovered it: it’s been a favourite of mine ever since.
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Finished Series 9 of Sandhamn Murders last night. I’ll be a bit surprised if they go around again.
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I was disappointed with the ending.
Yes. The reason for my last sentence.
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For all those out there who realise that the one thing missing in their viewing history is a series set in the Azores, there’s a show on Netflix called Turn of the Tide (Rabo de Peixe, which doesn’t mean anything like Turn of the Tide).
A ship carrying a motza of coke headed for the Canaries, runs aground instead in the Azores (it’s part of Portugal, not a colony, much the same as Madeira, home of CR7). Two fishermen, Eduardo, who wants to go to the US with his blind dad, and Rafael, who wants to play for Benfica, discover where it’s washed up.
Rafael’s gf, Silvia (who Eduardo wants to be his gf) comes along for the ride, but her dad is the local drug dealer. The mob, whose drugs they are, come looking, as does a Lisbon woman detective.
Plenty of action follows, filmed in an environment where you realise why the Azores isn’t a tourist hot spot. It gained fame as a refuelling point between the US and Europe.
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Finished Turn of the Tide (another series coming), and Paris Police 1905 last night.
Watched Steelyard Murders during the week too…a cold case murder from South Wales starring Philip Glenister from Life on Mars.
I started Turn of the Tide last night. I don’t mind it at all. I shall continue to watch.
Not planning on a trip to the Azores? Not a spoiler, but in the last episode there’s a chase through an abandoned complex that’s totally cactus. So it must have been prosperous at some point.
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Eduardo is so hot.
Talking of which, Leonora’s future in High Heat is looking doubtful. I looked her up in IMDB and it said she’s in 25 episodes. I’m at ep 24. So I checked out what else she’s in…The Five Juanas…based on a Colombian serial. Oka Giner is her name.
I mean…Olivia is hot…but Leonora…next level. Poncho from High Heat is in the Five Juanas too. He was in Fake Profile too.
Is Paris Police 1905 any good? What channel is it on?
SBS. Extremely dark. Corrupt vice squad, corrupt church. Plenty of syphilis.
Sounds inviting.
Finished this last night. Told from the killer’s viewpoint which is a little different for a series of this kind. A more complex tale than it might seem early on.
Charlene McKenna (Bloodlands, among other things) is very watchable.
It’s filmed in the middle of winter. The Bois de Boulogne looks very desolate and forbidding.
It was strange to hear male homosexuals (of whom there are many closeted ones in this series) referred to as inverts. But the story has been told so often. People with non-standard sexual tastes in that time being protected by corrupt police. Strangely 7 priests were detected with syphilis.
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