Gisken Armand Movies
- 2000
Berit Nesheim directs this Norwegian thriller about a woman who discovers a corpse in a river and does not report it. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gisken Armand, Per Egil Aske, (more)
Norwegian filmmaker Erik Skjoldbjaerg makes his directorial debut with the psychological police drama Insomnia. Swedish homicide detective Jonas Engström (Stellan Skarsgård) and his partner, Erik Vik (Sverre Anker Ousdal), arrive in a small Northern Norwegian town to help the local police investigate the murder of a teenage girl. When Jonas finds the girl's backpack, he sets a trap for the killer near a remote shed. While waiting to make an ambush in the morning fog, Jonas accidentally shoots Erik. He knows it was only an accident, but he decides to keep it a secret because he could lose his job. Jonas chooses to carry on with his investigation while trying to cover up the evidence of Erik's death. Meanwhile, he's unable to get any sleep due to the constant sunlight of the Norwegian summer and his increasingly guilty conscience. His only help comes from highly intuitive local police officer Hilda Haugen (Gisken Armand), who begins to form her own doubts about Jonas. As he continues to lose his grip on the case at hand, he becomes dangerously close to the suspects, Jon Holt (Bjørn Floberg) and Frøya (Marianne O. Ulrichsen). Filmmaker Christopher Nolan directed the English-language remake of Insomnia in 2002 with Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Stellan Skarsgård, Gisken Armand, (more)
Two Norwegian boys come of age in this dark drama with comic and tragic elements. The film is set in the 1960's. Naive Otto Olsen is the 16-year old son of working class parents. He is externally a very quiet boy, but internally something else abides. Otto is on a soccer team, but he is always on the bench. His deeper nature is revealed when a mysterious older boy dares Otto to throw a rock at the referee during a game. A friendship slowly begins between the two young men. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1990
Stage-designer Stig Strom (Sven Wolter) used to cut quite a figure among the women of his acquaintance. He virtually had his pick of lovers. Now he is well into middle age, and suddenly he notices that they aren't there for him any more. They don't hover around, they don't call, they don't listen to him. He's a romantic has-been. As the reality of his situation gradually becomes clearer to him, he frantically attempts to regain some shred of his former identity as a ladies' man. A brief dalliance with a younger woman doesn't spark anything much, and even his daring theft of a famous necklace for his ex-wife has little effect. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sven Wollter, Kjersti Holmen, (more)
