Much of the movie is set on a private island controlled by the Vanger clan, a wealthy Swedish industrial family peopled with criminals, perverts, solitaries, exiles, dead Nazis, and a grieving old man, Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer), who has never got over the disappearance of his grandniece, forty years earlier.

NEWYORKER: Double Dare

To some, Mr Vesco's ultimate scam was to suggest that the emaciated man snapped last November in a coffin, with his friends grieving round it, had something to do with him.

ECONOMIST: Robert Vesco

Sean Penn, some sort of math professor with a bad ticker, gets the heart of the dead man, at which point he begins to follow around the grieving widow (Naomi Watts).

NEWYORKER: 21 Grams