Tag: Cinema of Sweden
Interview: Mika Gustafson – Paradise is Burning
Swedish filmmaker Mika Gustafson shifts from the docu world beginnings to her fiction feature debut in Paradise is Burning - a selection in the...
Cairo Conspiracy | Review
You Gotta Have Faith: Saleh Explores Corruption of Institutions in Procedural Thriller
“Power is a double edged sword. Sometimes it cuts the hand that wields...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #107. Mika Gustafson’s Sisters
Sisters
After trying her hand in the docu realm, Swedish filmmaker Mika Gustafson made the move into fiction last June with what has be coined...
Triangle of Sadness | Review
Voyage of the Damned: Östlund Frowns Down Upon Hardwired Human Folly in Devious Satire
Ruben Östlund has built an impressive filmography satirizing social norms, with...
Hannah and Her “Sisters”: Ida Engvoll Toplines Mika Gustafson’s Fiction Feature Debut
It's Swedish female filmmaker day here on the site. Isabella Carbonell is headed to Venice with Dogborn and Mika Gustafson is about to set...
Exclusive Clips: Twins Screaming Silently in Isabella Carbonell’s “Dogborn”
Among the seven-film competition line-up in the 2022 Venice Intl. Film Critics’ Week we find the debut feature from Swedish filmmaker Isabella Carbonell. After...
Come Fly With Me: Ruben Östlund’s Next Film Set on a Long-haul Flight
Unless you're in business class, the airline industry is keen on making your flying experience in a miserable one. Continuing with his fascination for...
About Endlessness [Video Review]
Beauty & Banality: Andersson Ponders the Void in Potential Final Film
There might be no greater spiritual absurdist than Sweden’s premiere arthouse auteur Roy Andersson,...
Knocking | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review
Only This and Nothing More: Kempff Explores Cultural Gaslighting in Parochial Thriller
As in the timeless singsong of Poe’s classic poem “The Raven,” ‘suddenly there...
Koko-di Koko-da | Review
It’s All About Love: Nyholm Returns with Absurdist Allegory on Relationships
If Groundhog Day (1993), the well-liked Bill Murray title about a weatherman who is...
Charter | 2020 Sundance Film Festival Review
The Custody of Love: Kernell Returns with Emotionally Wrought Portrait of a Mother’s Love
Consider the standard, universally familiar (i.e., acceptable) narrative of fathers who...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #136. Sweat – Magnus von Horn
Sweat
Sweden’s Magnus von Horn is back after a five year hiatus with sophomore film Sweat, reuniting with his The Here After producer Mariusz Wlodarski (who...
Criterion Collection: Shame (1968) | Blu-ray Review
Things were grim in 1968, the reflection of which was interpreted by Ingmar Bergman, who delivered two of his bleakest portraits beginning with his...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #11. About Endlessness – Roy Andersson
About Endlessness
With his celebrated Living trilogy behind him (which took fourteen years to complete), Swedish auteur uses his favored vignette formatting to tackle One...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #42. The Jonsson Gang (Jönssonligan) – Tomas Alfredson
The Jonsson Gang (Jönssonligan)
Director Tomas Alfredson returns to Sweden for the first time since his 2008 international breakout Let the Right One In with...
Criterion Collection: Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) | Blu-ray Review
As John Simon’s insert essay “The Lower Depths” asserts in Criterion’s Blu-ray re-release of Ingmar Bergman’s 1953 masterpiece Sawdust and Tinsel, the title was...
Interview: Ali Abbasi – Border
Two years after Shelley, a horror film based on a Norse mythology and folktale, Ali Abbasi premiered the buzz heavy Border at the Cannes Film...
Video: Ali Abbassi’s Border | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
The surprise hit of the Un Certain Regard and kudos to the Benicio del Toro led jury on giving the section's top honors, Ali...
Criterion Collection: Eclipse #46 – Ingrid Bergman’s Swedish Years | DVD Review
If her status as one of the most prominent fixtures of the Criterion Collection had been in contention before, Ingrid Bergman’s presence is now...
Audio Interview: Jens Assur – Ravens
Moving from photo journalism to the short form with sobering portraits in The Last Dog in Rwanda (2006) and one of the best shorts...
