Two teenagers meet and cautiously fall in love in beautiful surroundings during the peak of an idyllic Swedish summer. Oblivious to social boundaries, they innocently create their own inner world, expecting little from the dysfunctional and world-weary adults around them.
Director: Roy Andersson. AKA A Swedish Love Story
Writer: Roy Andersson.
Stars: Ann-Sofie Kylin, Rolf Sohlman, Anita Lindblom, Bertil Norström, Lennart Tellfelt, Margreth Weivers, Arne Andersson, Maud Backéus, Verner Edberg, Elsie Holm, Tommy Nilson, Gunnar Ossiander, Gunvor Tännérus, Lennart Tollén, Björn Andrésen, Birger Carlsson, Christer Hellquist, Roger Magnusson, Jan Olsson, Nils Söderlund, Lisbeht Tammeleht, Lotta Wallin,
Helen Andersson, Lennart Engkvist, Ingvar Lagergren, Dagfin Malm, Dagmar Sverák, Rune Svensson, Harald Jens, Erik Hansson.
Cinematographer: Jörgen Persson.
Composer: Björn Isfält.
1970 Berlin International Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Bear.
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Sometimes I watch a movie and I think: is this what they really wanted to film? Or is this all they had when they finally ran out of money? It’s a pretty enjoyable movie, but it meanders. It’s about puppy love: the boy is kind of toothy and the girl is kind of leggy, and that’s all. The boy and the girl are surrounded by dreary adults and you begin to get the impression that dreariness is the ultimate fate of the two young lovers. So you watch, and wait, and watch, and wait …
Haven’t seen the film yet, but have you seen anything else by Roy Andersson? He became notable beginning in the 2000s (after a 25-year break from directing features), for directing slow-paced, sardonic existential comedies. While this sounds a bit generic, I’m curious to know if traces of his style are present here…
It’s a wonderful movie becoming a Marxist train wreck by the end of it. It really made it big in Sweden at the time, and the girl lead became the whole nation’s ‘sweetheart’ it has been reported. Unfortunately, at the time the Marxist Roy Andersson had not yet learned to moderate and to clad his views in cinematically efficient and workable ways, so the clash of the classes (upper class girl, lower class boy) causing troubled relations with the family becomes ridiculously rhetorical. That said, it actually is one of his best. If you really want to watch, and wait, and watch, and wait, and end up feeling empty, try his 1975 effeort Gilliap. It’s so pretentious, so bad, even the critics hated it, not to mention the few moviegoers. It cost a fortune of tax payers’ money to make, and caused havoc within the authorities and the public alike, which all made Andersson retire from movie making, or barred from making more movies for 25 years when he made a come-back with a vengance. (These very days, attempts are made to “sanctify” Gilliap and to hail it as an unsung masterpiece, which is usually done with anything that has become antique enough, but they will not succeed.)