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Posted by Lira on Jul-01-2004 03:32:

Jag <3 "Den Osynlige"

Tja!

After watching "fucking ï¿½mï¿½l", one of my favourite films ever, I decided to watch this other Swedish film ("Den Osynlige") and I must say I'm really amazed - it's excellent. So I was wondering if you guys could give me more info on Swedish cinema, recommend me some more titles and, if possible, where I could watch/get subbed versions (as long as the subtitles are in English, Portuguese or Spanish, I guess I can handle it ).

Tack sï¿½ mycket

Posted by SteveTranz4ever on Jul-01-2004 06:51:

I think "Den Osylige" is okay but not more than that.... A really great Swedish movie that you must check out is "Onskan"... I'm not a good moviecritic but it's a really strong film with great actors.

Posted by nils on Jul-01-2004 09:36:

hehe, a typical swedish movie, IMO, is: "Under Solen" see it!
and the "Beck" movies are quite known as well.. perhaps not the best, but still swedish.

Posted by St_Andrew on Jul-01-2004 10:13:

also a must see is "jalla jalla" =)

Posted by reveal on Jul-01-2004 10:40:

quote:
Originally posted by SteveTranz4ever
I think "Den Osylige" is okay but not more than that.... A really great Swedish movie that you must check out is "Onskan"... I'm not a good moviecritic but it's a really strong film with great actors.

"Ondskan" is called "The Evil" in English

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352330/

Posted by Nyx on Jul-01-2004 11:16:

quote:
Originally posted by St_Andrew
also a must see is "jalla jalla" =)

and Kopps. Josef Fares is the director of them both. Hilarious movies!

Posted by Virus on Jul-01-2004 11:25:

If you liked Fucking ï¿½mï¿½l, which I think is a wonderful film, you might like Lukas Moodyssons other films:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0600546/

"Tillsammans" (Together) is as good as Fucking ï¿½mï¿½l. Its a film about the problematic life of a group of idealistic hippies in the 70s. Had some international success so you will probably be able to find it.

Det Nya landet is great too, but its a tv series so you might not find it.

One of my favorite films of all time is "Sï¿½nger frï¿½n Andra Vï¿½ningen"(Songs from the Second Floor) by Roy Andersson. Very surrealistic and pretty confusing, but beautiful scenery and dialogue. Might seem pretentious, but to me a lot of it is made for fun. I laughed my ass off when I saw it.
You either love it or hate it. When I saw it in the cinema, half the crowd left before it ended.

Ingmar Bergman (Fanny and Alexander, The Seventh Seal etc etc) is the most famous Swedish director of all, but he's a bit too depressing and slow for me.

While in Scandinavia, if you haven't already you might want to check out the Dogma 95 bunch; Von Trier (Europa, The kingdom, The Idiots, Breaking the waves, Dogville etc) and Thomas Vinterberg (Festen).

There's a great Norwegian film called Elling about the life of two mantally disturbed friends that I warmly recommend too.

Posted by Nyx on Jul-01-2004 11:28:

A good swedish action/thriller trilogy:

Noll Tolerans / Zero Tolerance

Livvakterna / Executive Protection

Den Tredje Vï¿½gen / The Third Wave

Posted by Lira on Jul-01-2004 15:43:

Thanks for the recommendations

The only one I had already heard of was "Jalla Jalla" (I missed the opportunity to see it in the cinema and I couldn't remember the name) - and everywhere I read about it, they say it's fun. The others are completely new to me, and I'm looking forward to watching them as well.

quote:
Originally posted by Virus
While in Scandinavia, if you haven't already you might want to check out the Dogma 95 bunch; Von Trier (Europa, The kingdom, The Idiots, Breaking the waves, Dogville etc) and Thomas Vinterberg (Festen).

I've seen "some" of the Dogma 95 stuff (and by "some", I mean "bits" and "parts", as I rarely manage to watch a whole film on TV), and although the concept seemed interesting, they also seemed a bit slow.

quote:
Originally posted by SteveTranz4ever
I think "Den Osylige" is okay but not more than that....

Maybe it's because I was clueless of what it was about, so when I started to watch it, I was being surprised all the time

Posted by St_Andrew on Jul-01-2004 15:47:

quote:
Originally posted by Virus
If you liked Fucking ï¿½mï¿½l, which I think is a wonderful film, you might like Lukas Moodyssons other films:

yeah, linlja 4 ever is kinda cool too.

i'm not sure i like his films that much tho, they feel so... hmm.. communistic?

Posted by montana on Jul-01-2004 16:06:

"Lilja 4 Ever" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300140/) is one a really nice piece, and i have never seen anyone not feeling sad or angry seeing it, it's based on a true story, they showed a documentary on swedish tv called "Lilja 4 Real", which gave the whole story and providing extra pieces that was left out in the film,

Posted by benni on Jul-01-2004 16:16:

I haven't seen many swedish movies, but Jalla Jalla! is definitely worth a shot

and Smala Sussie

Posted by CJ InterCity on Jul-01-2004 17:26:

Den Tredje Vï¿½gen (The Third Wave) is said to be the greatest work in swedish film history. I haven't seen it myself but with critics like that, it can't be bad

Posted by jofawe on Jul-01-2004 19:30:

sï¿½llskapsresan 1-3
familjen
eva och adam
fï¿½bodjï¿½ntan
Gï¿½ta Kanal

ja det finns mï¿½nga klassiker

Posted by St_Andrew on Jul-02-2004 15:11:

quote:
Originally posted by jofawe
sï¿½llskapsresan 1-3

that is quality!

Posted by Lira on Jul-02-2004 15:33:

Once again, thanks everyone

Lilja 4-ever looks interesting: I found a summary of her true life (which seemed touching indeed) and I liked the trailer's trance background tune, even though I've read the soundtrack is mostly rock I wonder if the trance tune was produced by a fellow TA

And that being said about "The Third Wave", I believe it must be less hard to find it then (and it seems worth searching).

I'm gonna go look for all these titles now

Posted by jofawe on Jul-02-2004 15:42:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
I wonder if the trance tune was produced by a fellow TA

The tracks name is The Ride and is produced by the swedish duo Dubble N

Posted by St_Andrew on Jul-02-2004 15:44:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
And that being said about "The Third Wave", I believe it must be less hard to find it then (and it seems worth searching).

actually i have heard that it is shite :S

havent' seen it myself tho, but yeah to my understanding that is more like a hollywood movie...

Posted by Nyx on Jul-02-2004 16:14:

quote:
Originally posted by St_Andrew
actually i have heard that it is shite :S

havent' seen it myself tho, but yeah to my understanding that is more like a hollywood movie...

I saw it on dvd last week and I think it's very overrated. The first two is much better in my opinion, but it's worth seeing though

Posted by SilverX on Jul-03-2004 06:15:

I don't think you've mentioned "Sprï¿½ngaren"...

http://www.cdon.com/images/static/?id=135059&ctype=image/pjpeg&servicename=nn4it_cdon

I don't like it.. but I have it

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And you MUST see this one.. if you can find a translated version

http://www.cdon.com/images/static/?id=121353&ctype=image/pjpeg&servicename=nn4it_cdon