Winner of the Golden Bear for best short film at the Berlin Film Festival
Synopsis
A detailed and humorous reconstruction of a failed bank robbery witnessed in June 2006. A realtime study with over 96 people choreographed for the camera.Read More »
Winner of the Golden Bear for best short film at the Berlin Film Festival
Synopsis
A detailed and humorous reconstruction of a failed bank robbery witnessed in June 2006. A realtime study with over 96 people choreographed for the camera.Read More »
PLOT: 23 years after Ruben Östlund’s parents divorce, both his mom and dad are single again. With a child’s hope of an entire family, he tries to reconcile them in front of a new outward eye, the camera.Read More »
First film by the most prominent Swedish director of today.
Kommer ni ihåg när vi var i Alperna tillsammans? Alla kompisar som en enda stor familj. Det
var ju så man skulle leva, svårare var det inte. Men plötsligt är det som om livet kommer
smygande inpå oss och vi börjar inse att så här kommer det inte vara för alltid. Så lätt
kommer vi inte undan.Read More »
PLOT: In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one’s foot down – or failing to do so – are explored.Read More »
Synopsis
In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one’s foot down – or failing to do so – are explored.Read More »
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The Guitar Mongoloid
(Sweden)
By GUNNAR REHLIN
A Trianglefilm release of a Hinden/Lanna-Ateljeerna production. (International sales: Hinden/Lanna-Ateljeerna, Stockholm.) Produced, directed, written by Ruben Ostlund.
With: Erik Rutstrom, Ola Sandstig, Britt-Marie Andersson, Julia Persdotter.
One of the quirkiest Swedish films of recent memory, “The Guitar Mongoloid” has all the makings of a cult classic. Shot on a shoestring over several years, pic defies traditional norms of storytelling, making it a distant cousin to the films of iconoclast Roy Andersson (“Songs From the Second Floor”). A dark, but also humorous, depiction of a society with lonely people and sudden outbursts of violence, pic is ideal fest fare.Read More »
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A prestigious Stockholm museum’s chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.Read More »