Swedish

An erotic coming of age story about 16-year old Adena, who is chasing her good-looking high school teacher during their summer vacation. David, who is twice her age, is anything but comfortable with Adena’s persistent approach.Read More »

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 »

A 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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“Described as a play for dancers rather than a ballet, De fordomda kvinnornas dans focuses on four women moving in a narrow closed room. They represent ‘generational’ women, i.e., women who live by performing a role imposed upon them by other women of many generations ago. Two of the dancers are damned souls come alive. The third is Death and the fourth a child, born free but forced into the role playing pattern. Ingmar Bergman and Donya Feuer got the idea for the dance play during the shooting of TrollflojtenRead More »

The life and times of the Scandinavian artists’ colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The painters became famous for the way they used the light in their work, and this has also been mirrored in the cinematography. Written by Mattias ThuressonRead More »

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Jan fights impotence (literal and symbolic) and anguished childhood memories in a decadent Swedish castle where risqué parties and daring scenes defy 1960s’ movie censorship, reaffirming the ground-breaking role of Swedish films in helping advance adult, sexually concerned themes in international cinema.Read More »

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For her feature film directing debut, actress Mai Zetterling turned to Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s controversial masterpiece of Swedish feminist literature, “The Misses von Pahlen,” an intense and personal seven-part novel that has been likened to the great works of D.H. Lawrence. As three pregnant women from different backgrounds wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences via individual flashbacks. Drawing on the classic Ingmar Bergman style of Swedish filmmaking and collaborating with many of his favorite actors as well as the great cinematographer Sven Nykvist, Zetterling had produced a powerful fusion of personal emotional drama and a commentary on the role of women in a society in moral decline.Read More »

A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play “Lysistrata” in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.Read More »

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A historical socio-political depiction of the development of Chile since the 16th century and until the coup d’etat. The country’s dependancy on foreign capital is made clear as well as the strength of the bourgeoisie in comparison to other third world countries. The film mainly consists of still images.
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