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INSOMNIA (Christopher Nolan, 2002) Rating: NNNN

Insomnia is a rough remake of a Norwegian thriller that featured Stellan Skarsgaard as a bent cop sent north to investigate a homicide. Here, Al Pacino’s the cop, the location is Alaska and the killer is Robin Williams. With Pacino’s raw emotional edges bumping up against Williams’s superb rationalizations, it’s one of the most intriguing acting duels in recent years. Williams’s performance is actually much creepier than the more critically praised one in One Hour Photo, because his character recognizes the legal and social ramifications of his crime and has figured out that he can ignore them.Nolan, off the indie success of Memento, gets to shoot the visual splendours of Alaska on a good-sized budget and demonstrates that he can direct and control actors whose recent work has been self-indulgent.
The cast’s third Oscar-winner, Hilary Swank, is the local cop who needs Pacino’s assistance. (September 1-5, Bloor)

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