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A Love Story

Original title: En kärlekshistoria
  • 19701970
  • 1h 55m
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7.3/10
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A Love Story (1970)
Two teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.
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Two teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.Two teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.Two teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.
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    • Roy Andersson
    • Roy Andersson
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    • Ann-Sofie Kylin
    • Rolf Sohlman
    • Anita Lindblom
    • Roy Andersson
    • Roy Andersson
  • Stars
    • Ann-Sofie Kylin
    • Rolf Sohlman
    • Anita Lindblom
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    • 36Critic reviews
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    Ann-Sofie Kylin
    Ann-Sofie Kylin
    • Annika
    Rolf Sohlman
    Rolf Sohlman
    • Pär
    Anita Lindblom
    Anita Lindblom
    • Eva…
    Bertil Norström
    Bertil Norström
    • John Hellberg…
    Lennart Tellfelt
    • Lasse
    • (as Lennart Tellfeldt)
    • …
    Margreth Weivers
    Margreth Weivers
    • Elsa…
    Arne Andersson
    • Arne
    Maud Backéus
    • Gunhild…
    Verner Edberg
    • Uncle Verner
    Tommy Nilson
    • Roger
    • (as Tommy Nilsson)
    • …
    Gunnar Ossiander
    • Pär's Grandfather
    Elsie Holm
    • Guest at Crayfish Party
    Gunvor Tännérus
    • Guest at Crayfish Party
    • (as Gunvor Ternéus)
    Lennart Tollén
    • Lennart…
    Björn Andrésen
    Björn Andrésen
    • Pär's Buddy
    Christer Hellquist
    • Pär's Buddy
    Birger Carlsson
    • Birger
    Roger Magnusson
    • Roger
      • Roy Andersson
      • Roy Andersson
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    • Trivia
      Shot during the summer of 1969 with virtually no rain days for two months.
    • Quotes

      Pär's Grandfather: Dagens tillvaro är inte konstruerad för mig. Den är inte konstruerad för ensamma.

    • Connections
      Featured in Minns Ni? (1993)
    • Soundtracks
      Pierina eller Blå anemonerna
      Lyrics and Music Composed by Evert Taube (1949)

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    7/10
    Roy Andersson's feature debut at the age of 27
    Swedish auteur Roy Andersson's feature debut at the age of 27, who has only made 5 films so far (mainly due to a 25-year hiatus from 1975-2000 of directing feature film, he has made many shorts though during the spell), his latest work A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE (2014), is a prestigious Golden Lion winner.

    A Swedish LOVE STORY, centres on the puppy love between two teenagers Pär (Sohlman) and Annika (Kylin), and broaches tenderly their incipient sexual awakening. Set in the sun-drenched urban and sun-dappled rural Sweden, its colour scheme and raw warmth seem to contradict the typecast impression of Scandinavian landscape, a tinge of unusualness can be sensibly discovered through the non-existent narrative and its time-capsule pop references of the time: transistor radio, leather jackets, moped, smoking cigarettes (to emulate a sophisticated mien of adults), and pop songs aplenty. The intimacy and spontaneity between the two young leads suffice to induce a pleasant if to a certain extent, lackadaisical state of awareness. Ann-Sofie Kylin imbues her naturalistic pizazz potently in her laconic register and feline appearance (her captivating blue eyes in particular), and Rolf Sohlman, not a conventionally handsome boy, but his gauche precociousness scintillates great chemistry with Kylin.

    However, a tongue-in-cheek savour of Andersson's shrewd perception of the contemporary society lies in the adulthood, Pär's father Lasse (Tellfelt) is a working-class garage owner whereas Annika's father John (Norström), is an ambitious refrigerator salesman, and the relationship between him and Annika's mother Elsa (Weivers) is constantly under the strain. Another prominent character is Annika's Auntie, Eva (Lindblom), a single woman, who has just been released from the convalescent hospital in the beginning and forever struck by a lugubrious melancholy since she cannot find any footing in real life.

    The subplots of adults resolve half-heartedly around Pär and Annika's growing affections, until the last act, the puppy love has been sidelined to a a dinner party with both families in the countryside house of Lasse, where cone-shaped paper hats and crayfish bibs are taking the centre stage, the frictions of different views of the world inconveniently emerge, between the two patriarchs. A cynical and chagrined John bursts into a hysterical but also dead serious rant in the foggy morning and an impending tragedy seems to be in the offing. After reaching the emotional peak of despair and chaos, Andersson knowingly finishes off his confident debut with apparent levity but leaves behind an acrimonious taste of social critique which elevates the film above its central teenage affair, a sturdy and unique piece of work from an up-and-coming young filmmaker.
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      • April 24, 1970 (Sweden)
      • Sweden
      • Solaris Distribution (France)
      • Swedish
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      • AB Europa Studio, Sundbyberg, Sweden
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      • Europa Film
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    • 1 hour 55 minutes
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