The Dead of Winter review – Emma Thompson lights up icy Fargo country thriller

The Dead of Winter review – Emma Thompson lights up icy Fargo country thriller

Locarno film festivalThompson turns up the accent dial to play a good-natured Minnesota widow bringing her charm – and her gun – to tackle some concentrated nastinessFrom the freezing heart of Fargo country in snowy Minnesota comes a quite outrageously enjoyable suspense thriller starring Emma Thompson; I hadn’t realised what a treat it would be to see Thompson handle a pistol with a scope and also demonstrate where on the body you can get shot …