Stina Ekblad

Nora lives with Anders and Karin and their son Dag. As they move into an old apartment, unexplainable things start happening. Who is the woman making the mysterious phonecalls? Why doesn’t their dog want to set foot in the round room? Why does Nora keep hearing steps coming from the round room making her feel like someone is watching her? Nora’s search to find out about the people that used to live in her apartment, develops when she receives a package the content of which she alone is allowed to see. And the name Agnes Cecilia becomes a key in solving the mystery.Read More »

A quartet of sterling performances from some of Sweden’s top actors (including the wonderful Pernille August) anchors Jorgen Bergmark’s tragicomedy about a marriage counseling couple who find themselves in deep water when the husband falls for his best friend’s wife. A smart, funny film made for adults.Read More »

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An exploration of madness, sexuality and authorship in this semi-biopic about the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna (1894-1940). In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls “her child”. The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls’ books to serious and self-consuming novelist.Read More »

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An offbeat but very watchable black comedy about a hotel handyman who precipitates the breakup of a family, “Like It Never Was Before” could get solid box office returns both in Sweden and abroad, with careful handling.

Pic is the first script by popular gay writer and standup comic Jonas Gardell, a well-known media personality in Sweden, whose wit targets both gays and gay-bashers. His books are always instant bestsellers.Read More »

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Bergman’s production Yukio Mishima’s play Madame de Sade was not the first work by the Japanese playwright to be performed in Sweden. In 1959, Dramaten had produced some of Mishima’s Noh plays and in 1970, the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki visited Dramaten with a version of Madame the Sade. Mishima had been nominated several times to the Novel Prize in literature but was passed over in favour of his mentor Kawabata (1968).

The setting of Madame de Sade begins in France in 1772 and ends twelve years later, nine months after the French Revolution. Six Women, one of them Madame de Sade, discuss their views and feelings of the notorious sadist and sodomist Marquis de Sade.

An enthusiastic critical corps focussed on Bergman’s ensemble of actresses and on the concentration and musicality of his staging.Read More »