Hello all, Mad Dashiell here-
Zik Zak Filmworks brings us I REMEMBER YOU, a new addition to the Nordic supernatural noir canon. The film is adapted from the queen of Icelandic crime fiction, Yrsa Sigurđardóttir's best selling novel, I Remember You: A Ghost Story. The book garnished the Icelandic Crime Fiction Award as well as gaining a nomination for The Glass Key Award. Óskar Thór Axelsson helmed both tasks of screenwriter and director. Enjoy the trailer-
The story begins in a stark icy backdrop with a young man and woman that have set themselves to work renovating a rundown house in the remote Westfjords of Iceland. An investigation is sparked after a woman hangs herself inside a dilapidated church. The case takes a deeper twist as the new psychiatrist in town(Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson), learns that the deceased woman and him shared a strange connection. She was obsessed with the disappearance of his 7 year old son, that went missing 3 years prior. Further investigation down this hellish rabbit-hole of corruption follows a number of unusual deaths of elderly people in the frozen landscape. The dark secrets of the town begin to unfurl as the stories intertwine into a supernatural tapestry of terror.
Thanks for joining me, See you all at the movies or in the chat feeds, Mad Dashiell signing off.
Mad Dashiell Space for Rant: I am a massive fan of Lars Von Trier's highly excellent TV series/film RIGET, shown in the UK and US as THE KINGDOM, was very Nordic, very supernatural, and very noir steeped in all its thrilling and horrifying glory. I am hoping that I REMEMBER YOU will touch on that element of eerie supernatural dementedness and not just be riding the scary-kid horror coat-tails complete with a series of leap frog jump scares, one after another. Will this tortured detective figure be any less hollow or more tormented than the illustrious halls of haunted investigators in movies past? Let me know what you think.
