One of the best Swedish thrillers recent years. I'm normally not a fan of Lasse Hallströms American productions , mostly consisting of romantic dramas. But in this genre he excels, and the movie is up there with the best swedish thrillers and police movies (Mannen på balkongen, Mannen från Mallorca, Falsk som vatten etc.). And more important, this is som much better than all the low brow "Nordic Noir" based on swedish crime novels that has exploded and overflown TV and cinema recent years. I hope Hallström will direct more of the Keppler books, but unfortunatly Hypnotisören was received poorly by both critics and audience in Sweden. They've proparbly got used to the dumbed down stylistics of "Bron", newer "Beck", newer "Wallander" and so on.
Review of The Hypnotist
