Janet and I are continuing to work our way through the Nordic Noir collection on Criterion. She will often take a pass on my more esoteric film deep dives, but she's always an enthusiastic participant for any and all films noir. The other night we watched Torben Anton Svendsen's Two Minutes Late. This was a worthy edition to the collection (sadly, only four films are featured). There was some relatively surprising brief nudity (although, well, it's Scandinavia, and there was nudity in Bergman's 1953 Summer with Monika - and Girl with Hyacinths had a clear lesbian subtext - so they were, as always, simply years ahead of the idiotic American film industry) and a very dark plot (featuring not one but two murders which might have been prevented if something had happened a couple minutes earlier). Definitely recommended.
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