Resurrection: Undercurrent: The Disappearance of Kim Wall

INVESTIGATION: The story of accomplished journalist Kim Wall, who went missing in 2017, interviewing the eccentric entrepreneur Peter Madsen. Undercurrent: The Disappearance of Kim Wall is one novel feminist take on a familiar tabloid topic. Erin Lee Carr’s latest two-part doc for HBO (both Part One: The Crime and Part Two: The Punishment air March 8 here in the US) actually treads the same true crime territory as Tobias Lindholm’s six-part (also on HBO) series The Investigation. (As well as Emma Sullivan’s 2020 Sundance-debuting, Netflix-shelved documentary Into the Deep for that matter.) But where Lindholm chose a cold laser focus on facts in his narrative account of this stranger than fiction tale, Carr does quite the opposite – using her journalistic skills to bring the emotional fallout from Wall’s shocking demise to the fore. And to celebrate a woman whose own journo talents made a woefully under-appreciated difference in the world.

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