Bookwitch

I remember saying a while back that I already have a face for Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander, and so I didn’t feel that Kenneth Branagh could really be Wallander to me. Maybe I can learn to accept change.

While on half term holiday I watched a more recent Wallander on television, and found that the man going round arguing with someone at the beginning of the film, was actually Wallander himself. New actor; new face. And I really didn’t feel this was Wallander. Perhaps I could adapt, but there’s only so many faces one man can have. To tell the truth, I didn’t feel this actor played Wallander as I understand his personality to be.

I’ll have to wait and see what Kenneth Branagh can do with him. Can Gilderoy Lockhart ever be a moody Swedish policeman?