It’s hard to describe what Ida Engvoll does on “Love & Anarchy” as anything other than a magic trick. There’s a moment early in Season 2 of Lisa Langseth’s Netflix series involving a cup of coffee that’s somehow wilder and funnier and more believable than it has any right to be. Part of the thrill of “Love & Anarchy” is that the characters at the heart of it often seem surprised in the same way. Whether it’s a secret kiss, a coworker walking into a meeting in slippers, or a transformative weekend retreat, watching these people continually pinch themselves to remind them that what’s happening in front of them is actually happening is what helps make this show a top-tier Netflix viewing experience.
Sofie (Engvoll) finds herself in plenty of those moments early on in “Love & Anarchy” as the incoming new high-powered consultant at Stockholm-area publishing house Lund & Lagerstedt,...
Sofie (Engvoll) finds herself in plenty of those moments early on in “Love & Anarchy” as the incoming new high-powered consultant at Stockholm-area publishing house Lund & Lagerstedt,...
- 6/17/2022
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Sf Studios will release the comedy in Sweden in December.
Studiocanal is launching world sales on Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish-language feature The Jonsson Gang as Toronto gets underway today.
The film is in the final stages of post-production.
It is a reboot of a Swedish comedy film series which began in the 1980s, and produced eight feature titles. Sf Studios is releasing the title in Sweden this December.
The Jonsson Gang is about a thief who, on release from prison, finds his gang have become law-abiding citizens and he must continue on his own. But when he is tasked with a bigger job than expected,...
Studiocanal is launching world sales on Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish-language feature The Jonsson Gang as Toronto gets underway today.
The film is in the final stages of post-production.
It is a reboot of a Swedish comedy film series which began in the 1980s, and produced eight feature titles. Sf Studios is releasing the title in Sweden this December.
The Jonsson Gang is about a thief who, on release from prison, finds his gang have become law-abiding citizens and he must continue on his own. But when he is tasked with a bigger job than expected,...
- 9/10/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Moving from photo journalism to the short form with sobering portraits in The Last Dog in Rwanda (2006) and one of the best shorts films this decade in Killing the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys (2011), Swedish helmer Jens Assur paints an alluringly stubborn miserablist portrait with his debut feature, Ravens.
Shackled to a way of life handed down from generations past, tending to the land, the animals and wrath of every single weather forecast imaginable, the antagonistic forces display the hardships of a family of three blistered souls best personified by the guilt-ridden character played by Reine Brynolfsson, and…...
Shackled to a way of life handed down from generations past, tending to the land, the animals and wrath of every single weather forecast imaginable, the antagonistic forces display the hardships of a family of three blistered souls best personified by the guilt-ridden character played by Reine Brynolfsson, and…...
- 4/9/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The question of legacy drives “Ravens,” a coming of age drama gearing up to make its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. And today we have an exclusive clip from the movie that will be screening as part of the festival’s Discovery slate of programming.
Written and directed by Jens Assur, and starring Reine Brynolfsson, Maria Heiskanen and Jacob Nordström, the takes viewers to 1970s Sweden where an aging farmer hopes his son will take over the family trade, while the young man has dreams of his own.
Continue reading Tiff Exclusive ‘Ravens’ Clip: An Invisible Force Beckons at The Playlist.
Written and directed by Jens Assur, and starring Reine Brynolfsson, Maria Heiskanen and Jacob Nordström, the takes viewers to 1970s Sweden where an aging farmer hopes his son will take over the family trade, while the young man has dreams of his own.
Continue reading Tiff Exclusive ‘Ravens’ Clip: An Invisible Force Beckons at The Playlist.
- 8/30/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
After the tepid response to his star-packed version of Isabel Allende's "The House of the Spirits" a few years back, Swedish director Bille August returns with "Jerusalem", a long, engrossing epic set mostly in his native country late in the 19th century.
Based on Nobel Prize-winning Selma Lagerlof's turn-of-the-century collection of stories, the First Look Pictures release was bypassed by the Academy for a best foreign film nomination, but it's destined to generate respectable business with art house audiences when it opens commercially in March. In a quirk typical of domestic distribution of international cinema, "Jerusalem" arrives when August's newest film, "Smilla's Sense of Snow", should still be in theaters.
Other than small roles played by Max von Sydow and Olympia Dukakis, the large and talented Scandinavian cast of "Jerusalem" is led by newcomers or veterans unfamiliar to domestic audiences. But those who fall under the film's spell will be rewarded with a romantic tragedy that illuminates an obscure bit of history with rich characterizations and moral conflicts.
The main thrust of the narrative concerns the unrealized love of Ingmar (Ulf Friberg), a young farmer whose inheritance is stolen, and his childhood sweetheart Gertrud (Maria Bonnevie), who falls under the spell of a charismatic preacher (Sven-Bertil Taube).
Standing in their way is Ingmar's insensitive sister Karin (Pernilla August), who survives a bad marriage with a drunken thief (he stole the money Ingmar needed to purchase the family property). When Karin leads many of the townspeople in embracing a strict religious movement, she turns the farm into a kind of commune.
Eventually, the religious rebels ignore family ties and make plans to emigrate to the Holy Land. Although he loves Gertrud, Ingmar marries a rich woman and gets the farm back. In one of many ironic developments, it's revealed too late that Gertrud had found the missing inheritance.
The story then follows the fates of Gertrud and Karin when they travel to Palestine and take up with a cult headed by a stern "model" Christian (Dukakis). More tragedy ensues, and the conclusion has a few genuine surprises.
JERUSALEM
First Look Pictures
Writer-director Bille August
Producer Ingrid Dahlberg
Based on the novel by Selma Lagerlof
Director of photography Jorgen Persson
Production designer Anna Asp
Costume designer Ann-Margret Fyregard
Music Stefan Nilsson
Editor Janus Billeskov-Jansen
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ingmar Ulf Friberg
Gertrud Maria Bonnevie
Karin Pernilla August
Tim Reine Brynolfsson
Barbro Lena Endre
Gabriel Jan Mybrand
Hellgum Sven-Bertil Taube
Running time -- 166 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Based on Nobel Prize-winning Selma Lagerlof's turn-of-the-century collection of stories, the First Look Pictures release was bypassed by the Academy for a best foreign film nomination, but it's destined to generate respectable business with art house audiences when it opens commercially in March. In a quirk typical of domestic distribution of international cinema, "Jerusalem" arrives when August's newest film, "Smilla's Sense of Snow", should still be in theaters.
Other than small roles played by Max von Sydow and Olympia Dukakis, the large and talented Scandinavian cast of "Jerusalem" is led by newcomers or veterans unfamiliar to domestic audiences. But those who fall under the film's spell will be rewarded with a romantic tragedy that illuminates an obscure bit of history with rich characterizations and moral conflicts.
The main thrust of the narrative concerns the unrealized love of Ingmar (Ulf Friberg), a young farmer whose inheritance is stolen, and his childhood sweetheart Gertrud (Maria Bonnevie), who falls under the spell of a charismatic preacher (Sven-Bertil Taube).
Standing in their way is Ingmar's insensitive sister Karin (Pernilla August), who survives a bad marriage with a drunken thief (he stole the money Ingmar needed to purchase the family property). When Karin leads many of the townspeople in embracing a strict religious movement, she turns the farm into a kind of commune.
Eventually, the religious rebels ignore family ties and make plans to emigrate to the Holy Land. Although he loves Gertrud, Ingmar marries a rich woman and gets the farm back. In one of many ironic developments, it's revealed too late that Gertrud had found the missing inheritance.
The story then follows the fates of Gertrud and Karin when they travel to Palestine and take up with a cult headed by a stern "model" Christian (Dukakis). More tragedy ensues, and the conclusion has a few genuine surprises.
JERUSALEM
First Look Pictures
Writer-director Bille August
Producer Ingrid Dahlberg
Based on the novel by Selma Lagerlof
Director of photography Jorgen Persson
Production designer Anna Asp
Costume designer Ann-Margret Fyregard
Music Stefan Nilsson
Editor Janus Billeskov-Jansen
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ingmar Ulf Friberg
Gertrud Maria Bonnevie
Karin Pernilla August
Tim Reine Brynolfsson
Barbro Lena Endre
Gabriel Jan Mybrand
Hellgum Sven-Bertil Taube
Running time -- 166 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 2/13/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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