Cold: Police plot for powerful solvers from August 29 in summer

The film transfer of the Scandinavian police bestseller Irsa Sigurdottir who promises to freeze our blood amid heat comes to . Weirdwave, since August 29, presents in the summer the Nordic thriller Cold, directed by Erlingur Thornton, based on the bestselling novel by Icelandic police literature writer Irsa Sigurdardottir. The hero investigates the murder of two teenagers in a structure of delinquent minors decades ago, but discovers that events may be linked to his wife’s mysterious loss. Made for lovers of the genre, the film has been a great success in Iceland, remaining for 4 weeks in the Icelandic box office number 1 and promises to freeze our blood amid summer! Cold was shown at numerous festivals in the world, including the Gothenburg festival (Sweden). The Odin case, he lives alone with his daughter Run, after his ex-wife died. As he investigates some old juvenile murders committed decades ago in an institution of offenders, he begins to suspect that some strange secrets he reveals are related to his wife’s mysterious suicide, but also to the strange behavior of his teenage daughter. Film transfer of Irsa Sigurdottir’s book of the same name – one of the largest names of the Nordic police thriller. Her novels know huge success internationally and in Greece they are published by Metaichmion. Filmed with mastery attachment to the coldness of the Icelandic landscape and the inner coldness of its heroes, Cold, builds from the first second the sappens, with scenes referring to a metaphysical dimension. Or not? The viewer will have to wait with his breath for the unfolding of the myth to understand the grim reality, where everything is overturned beyond any prediction, in a police plot for powerful solvers with unpredictable end. Emphasis on the psychopathology of heroes, Thornton speaks of the abyss of the soul, male and female, and a “shadow” that threatens us all. Is it a ghost? Or something else? Director’s note “What overwhelmed me,” explains the director, “is that every time you think you know where history is going, something happens and everything is overturned. To a large extent, what made me want to make it a film, is exactly the idea of this disproving expectations.” Making a parallel with Brian de Palma’s cinema, “I would say he takes a film genre and at the same time undermines it by wanting to fool the public. And I felt Irsa was doing that too.” Icelandic Yrsa Sigurdardóttir (Irsa Sigurdardottir, 1963) is one of the largest names of the Nordic police thriller. Her novels know huge success internationally, translated into more than 30 languages, while several of them have been transferred to the small and large screen. Her thriller “The Revenge” (Michmio, 2014) was awarded the Icelandic Crime Fiction Award and was nominated for Glass key, the highest distinction for a book of Nordic police literature. For “DNA” (Michmium, 2017), the first book in the series with heroes psychologist Freya and Detective Huldar, was awarded the Danish Academy of Police Literature Award and the Blood Drop and Petrona Awards. According to Erlingur Thornton, who is a great fan of horror films already since childhood, “America is open to very specific types of films, but there are great possibilities as to the kind of horror film in frozen, dark Iceland. In this direction I moved with my film Rift and even more now with Cold”, while, as he said, in the future he is interested in dealing with queer Horror.