Tag: Swedish Cinema

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...

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...

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