Midnight Sun

Swedish duo Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein created the TV hit The Bridge (2011 -), a cross-border thriller which pairs Swedish and Danish cops tracking a killer hell-bent on pointing up injustices. Midnight Sun, a French-Swedish co-production (the first for its French backer, Canal Plus TV) starts similarly in a more exotic setting. Kahina, a French policewoman, is sent to the Arctic Circle to investigate the gruesome murder of a fellow citizen. She is joined by a local investigator. What is the connection between this death and the indigenous Sami, who are threatened by a mining company? This somber thriller shines a light on their culture via shamanic interludes. The gorgeous and disturbing setting, the midnight sun, inverts the dark clichés of Film Noir/Nordic Noir and unsettles Kahina.
Slick and frantic, Midnight Sun scrambles crime scenes and identity as well, bending genders, forcing the tormented Kahina, the Sami and the Swedes to deal with their respective pasts.
Season 1, episodes 1 and 2.