Easy Money
JW (Joel Kinnaman) is a poor student living a double life among the wealthy elite in Stockholm.
Using increasingly illicit means to fund his exclusive lifestyle, he hits on a chance to score ‘easy money’ through selling cocaine.
As JW enters the dark world of organised crime, his fate entwines with that of Jorge, a drug dealer on the run, and Mrado, a mob hitman tasked with tracking Jorge down.
Easy Money is a gripping and stylish adaptation of the first novel of Jens Lapidus’s best-selling ‘Stockholm Noir Trilogy’.
Director Daniél Espinosa successfully imbues the nastiness of Nordic noir with a Bret Easton Ellis-like sense of harsh glamour.
Easy Money has been championed by Martin Scorsese, and you can see why: Espinosa’s keen balance of tension and violence with empathetic characterisation owes much to the legacy of his illustrious supporter.
Easy Money is released 24th May