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Monica Z

  • 20132013
  • 1h 51m
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Monica Z (2013)
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The world famous Swedish jazz singer, actress and icon Monica Zetterlund's life through stardom and hardship.The world famous Swedish jazz singer, actress and icon Monica Zetterlund's life through stardom and hardship.The world famous Swedish jazz singer, actress and icon Monica Zetterlund's life through stardom and hardship.
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    • Per Fly
    • Monica Zetterlund(inspired by the life of)
    • Peter Birro(scenario)
    • Per Fly(adaptation collaborator)
  • Stars
    • Edda Magnason
    • Sverrir Gudnason
    • Kjell Bergqvist
    • Per Fly
    • Monica Zetterlund(inspired by the life of)
    • Peter Birro(scenario)
    • Per Fly(adaptation collaborator)
  • Stars
    • Edda Magnason
    • Sverrir Gudnason
    • Kjell Bergqvist
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    • 4User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
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    Edda Magnason
    Edda Magnason
    • Monica
    Sverrir Gudnason
    Sverrir Gudnason
    • Sture
    Kjell Bergqvist
    Kjell Bergqvist
    • Bengt
    Vera Vitali
    Vera Vitali
    • Marika
    Oskar Thunberg
    • Vilgot
    Johannes Wanselow
    • Beppe
    Nadja Christiansson
    • Eva-Lena
    David Hellenius
    David Hellenius
    • Skivbolagsdirektören
    Cecilia Ljung
    • Greta
    Fredrik Lindborg
    • Dompan
    Jörgen Thorsson
    Jörgen Thorsson
    • Tage
    Hanna Ullerstam
    Hanna Ullerstam
    • Kerstin
    Hedda Stiernstedt
    Hedda Stiernstedt
    • Lina
    Henrik Ståhl
    • Povel Ramel
    Anna Harling
    • Journalisten
    Jonas Hedlund
    • Mäklaren
    Frederik Nilsson
    • Läkaren
    Peter Nordahl
    • Dompans Orkester: Piano
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      • Monica Zetterlund(inspired by the life of)
      • Peter Birro(scenario) (adaptation)
      • Per Fly(adaptation collaborator)
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    • Trivia
      The variety show that Monica plays in the movie is a mixture of different varieties she did with Hasse Alfredsson and Tage Danielsson. The venue, China Teatern (The China Theatre) and the actor with the turban is a reference to Gula Hund (Yellow Dog) from 1964. The musicians with the red sport coats are from the 1976 variety Svea Hund and lastly the number Monica performs ("Vad en liten gumma kan gno", roughly translated "What a little [old] lady can work") is from "Glaset i Örat" (The Glass in the Ear) from 1973.
    • Goofs
      The movie is supposed to take place during the very first years of the 1960's. However, as Monica Z. and the band tour the country in a bus you can hear the Swedish pop group Tages performing "Ms MacBaren" from the loudspeakers. This song was actually not released until 1966.
    • Connections
      References Så tuktas kärleken (1955)
    • Soundtracks
      It Could Happen To You
      Music by Jimmy Van Heusen (as Van Heusen)

      Lyrics by Johnny Burke (as Burke)

      Sony/ATV EMI Music Publishing AB

      Performed by Edda Magnason (as Edda Magnasson)

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    5/10
    Chronology?
    Let's first make clear that Edda Magnason is fantastic as Monica Zetterlund, an icon in Swedish jazz music and entertainment. Not at least when she sings. It's almost scary.

    But the script about her life outside stage is a melodrama on at best average level. The chronology is strange, 15 years pass and her daughter doesn't get older and nothing new is put to the common movie myth about the self-burning artist and her soul.

    We're quite in love with the early 60s now. Both we who were where and the rest of us. Which doesn't mean we're so interested in this way of romanticizing it in this way, even the destructiveness it kept
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    • stensson
    • Oct 6, 2013

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    • Release date
      • September 13, 2013 (Sweden)
      • Sweden
      • Official site (Japan)
      • Swedish
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Film i Väst, Nohab Industrial Estate, Trollhättan, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
    • Production companies
      • StellaNova Film
      • Film i Väst
      • Svensk Filmindustri (SF)
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    • 1 hour 51 minutes
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