Who could have guessed that a Swedish science fiction film would turn out as bleak and troubled as every other genre of Swedish cinema? Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja’s 2018 film Aniara is based, on all things, on a 1956 … Continue reading REVIEW: Aniara (2018)
Alice (Ane Dahl Torp), recently divorced from her husband Mattias (Sverrir Gudnason), receives a crying late-night call from her young son Vincent (Troy Lundkvist). Concerned for his welfare, and that of his teenage sister Elina (Tintin Poggats Sarri), Alice kidnaps … Continue reading REVIEW: Charter (2020)
College student Dani Ardor (Florence Pugh) is already suffering from depression, but when her sister commits a murder-suicide of Dani’s entire family it drives her to her emotional limits. She takes respite in a trip from the USA to Sweden … Continue reading REVIEW: Midsommar (2019)
A couple spend a holiday with their eight year-old daughter, only for it to reach an inexplicable and tragic end. Three years later – now in a broken relationship – they go camping in the woods, only to encounter a … Continue reading REVIEW: Koko-Di Koko-Da (2019)
Enock is a Malawian teenager nearing the end of his high school studies. Since the age of six, he has lived inside a Taiwanese Buddhist orphanage – one of several built across sub-Saharan Africa. As his final examinations approach, Enock … Continue reading REVIEW: Buddha in Africa (2019)
Smilla (Julia Ormond) is a Greenlandic immigrant living in Copenhagen. When a young boy living in her apartment building is found dead, having fallen of the building’s roof, Smilla refuses to accept that it was an accident. Her investigations draw … Continue reading REVIEW: Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997)
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