Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden. Ingmar Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander as his swan song, it is the warmest and most autobiographical film combining the director’s melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality.Read More »
Ewa Fröling
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Ingmar Bergman – Fanny och Alexander [Extended TV Version] (1983) (HD)
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Mai Zetterling – Månen är en grön ost AKA The Moon Is A Blue Cheese (1977)
1971-1980ArthouseExperimentalMai ZetterlingSwedenA child’s ruminations take form in fantasies of colour, during the last of the innocent summer holidays in the archipelago.Read More »
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Jan Halldoff – Chez Nous (1978)
1971-1980CrimeDramaJan HalldoffSweden“It started with a murder of a prostitute, a small matter, really…”
A stripper from Club Chez Nous is murdered. The killer contacts a newspaper to whitewash himself. Two journalists start to investigate the case and stumble on other crimes along the way.Read More »
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Gunnel Lindblom – Sally och friheten AKA Sally and Freedom (1981)
1981-1990DramaGunnel LindblomSwedenSally, a 28-year-old social worker who has just broken up from a ten-year marriage. She seeks freedom, but has trouble living alone. She soon finds a new man, lawyer Jonas, but Sally knows that the past is chasing her and do things more difficult for her freedom quest.Read More »
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Mai Zetterling – Vi har många namn AKA We Have Many Names (1976)
1971-1980DramaMai ZetterlingTVA drama about love, divorce, identity and feminism, made for Sveriges Television.
Note: though this is taken from a dvd, the master is obviously a video tape, and there are some distortions present.Read More »
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Niels Arden Oplev – Män som hatar kvinnor AKA Men Who Hate Women AKA The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
2001-2010Niels Arden OplevNordic NoirSwedenThrillerQuote:
Engaging, suspenseful, well-acted, atmospheric, and technically well-made Swedish thriller, based on the first book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy (which I have not read; Amazon.com/AdLibris.se). Clichés and little originality notwithstanding, there is a certain freshness to the proceedings, and the film is one of the better Swedish entries in the genre. The movie contains a couple of very disturbing and intense scenes that linger in the mind. While the ending makes the film feel slightly too long, it also ties up a few loose ends quite nicely. Michael Nyqvist convincingly portrays Mikael Blomkvist, but his character is underdeveloped; Noomi Rapace is excellent and memorable as Lisbeth Salander; in a smaller role, Peter Andersson is appropriately disgusting and slimy as Nils Bjurman. Sure-handed direction by Niels Arden Oplev.
Peter EricsonRead More »