Last night we watched Lars-Eric Kjellgren's 1953 film Hidden in the Fog, the final movie that is featured in the Criterion Channel's Nordic Noir collection. It starred Eva Henning, who was so good in Hasse Ekman's Girl with Hyacinths. I liked the film, although I thought it was the weakest of those featured in the collection, mainly because it never could seem to figure out what it wanted to be. Was it a psychological drama? Was it a true film noir? Was it a big country house murder mystery? It wasted time that could have been better devoted to fleshing out the motives of the main characters, and even the last scene, which ends with Henning framed (in classic film noir fashion) by her window, seen from the outside through fog, simply felt like an add-on as compared to a true reveal that maybe she was the murderer after all. I don't think I'd recommend it, although it had some nice moments.
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