This morning I started the second series of WITNESSES. There's an American actress in it who never speaks English, and her accent gave me heart though I think she might have been kind of crummy at the acting part. I did just watch CANNABIS, which wasn't great but I found it compelling enough to get through its relatively short run (there's also lots of Spanish and Arabic if you're in it for the linguistic diversity). I also have HOTEL BEAU SÉJOUR, DEEP, and THE CHURCHMEN in my queue, though not sure about the last one in particular. Mark, do you recommend everything on that list? In trying to improve/maintain my French I will watch virtually anything en français that is available in Canada, but I haven't gotten to MARSEILLE or THE BREAK yet. There's a couple of others - a french and a belgian, the belgian abt the robbery of a small bank? - that arrived via the bbc's noir slot but i can't bring their names to mind THE KILLING/THE BRIDGE/BORGEN/WALLENDER et al (danish and'r swedish): the big-name nordic noirs via the BBC that put me on this track in the first place - wallender has been played by three actors (not inc.branagh) but i only like one of them INSPECTOR MONTALBANO (italian): again via the BBC - no cop is filmed swimming more or more often HINTERLAND/Y GWYL (welsh): tbh i mostly watched this on actual realtime telly - set round aberystwyth and borth (towns i know quite well), a mimpy cop solves abuse-related crimes by driving fast in narrow lanes and looking back regretfully at how he's fucked up his life ROBA (finish): procedural set in helsinki - there's a thread abt itīORDERTOWN (also finnish): crossborder crims (ie russians) cause trouble in the small town a cop - possibly amnesiac, i forget - has moved his family to to rebuild his life LAVA FIELD (icelandic): murder to be solved by small-town cops trapped by a blizzard in their small town THE BREAK (belgian): small-village crime but the crime is big and nasty more amnesia lol MARSEILLE (french): corruption in title-city, starring g.depardieu (the star is the city)ĮSTOCOLMO (argentinian): media and political corruption in buenos aires - argentina doesn't look at all as i expected (unexpectedly got into amiable discussion w/its scriptwriter on twitter: they agreed w/some of my crit - but i basically enjoyed this a lot) estocolmo is argentinian for stockholm, as in syndrome also features amnesia iirc LA REINA DEL SUR (spanish): there's a thread and i must get back to its lurid pulpy bullshit tbhįILINTA (turkish): a steampunkish bond set in the late days of the ottoman empire (must also get back to: it's very stylised and quite strange)
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