CRIME IN A CONTINUUM

NAMRATA JOSHI HERE couldn't have been a better title for a film about the investigation into a bonechilling cold case set in Iceland.

-  NAMRATA JOSHI

Erlingur Thoroddsen's Scandi noir or Nordic noir, whatever name you may call it by, Cold (original title Kuldi) is based on the bestselling book The Undesired by popular Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurdardóttir.

After doing the rounds of international festivals like Goteburg and Glasgow, and proving to be a huge success at the Iceland box office, it was recently screened at the Red Lorry Film Festival in Mumbai as part of the special focus on Scandinavian cinema.

Cold's essential mystery emanates from the filmmaker's use of the element of point of view. In other words, the unreliable vantage point from which Thoroddsen first shows a crime to the viewers and then shocks and surprises them by revealing the truth when witnessed from the real, correct and reliable perspective. In the middle of all the complex twists and turns of the plot is Detective Odinn Hafsteinsson (Johannes Haukur Johannesson), a common link between the past and the present with which the narrative keeps shifting.