A Swedish Love Story (1970)
(En kälekshistoria)
Country: SV
Technical: col 115m
Director: Roy Andersson
Cast: Ann-Sofie Kylin, Rolf Sohlman, Anita Lindblom, Bertil Norström
Synopsis:
The fourteen year-old son of a repair shop mechanic courts the daughter of a refrigerator salesman. Despite interference from their peer group and the spectacle of adult unhappiness, they find peace and simplicity in their love.
Review:
Released in the US as simply 'A Love Story', this perhaps owes its alternative UK title to the fact that Arthur Hiller's classic had come out by then. It's strongly inflected with French New Wave features, in the casual approach to camerawork and rejection of bourgeois concerns; little in common with the director's formalised later work, except for the jaundiced view of society. What disappoints is that in spite of its great length there is much about the detail surrounding supporting characters that goes unexplained, particularly in the case of Eva, Annika's clinically depressed aunt(?). Nonetheless, this remains a gentle time capsule of one adolescent summer of bliss, leaving completely open how longlived their love will be, although there is the sense that, provided they can avoid the traps of adulthood, such as Annika's father's Napoleon complex, they should be okay.
(En kälekshistoria)
Country: SV
Technical: col 115m
Director: Roy Andersson
Cast: Ann-Sofie Kylin, Rolf Sohlman, Anita Lindblom, Bertil Norström
Synopsis:
The fourteen year-old son of a repair shop mechanic courts the daughter of a refrigerator salesman. Despite interference from their peer group and the spectacle of adult unhappiness, they find peace and simplicity in their love.
Review:
Released in the US as simply 'A Love Story', this perhaps owes its alternative UK title to the fact that Arthur Hiller's classic had come out by then. It's strongly inflected with French New Wave features, in the casual approach to camerawork and rejection of bourgeois concerns; little in common with the director's formalised later work, except for the jaundiced view of society. What disappoints is that in spite of its great length there is much about the detail surrounding supporting characters that goes unexplained, particularly in the case of Eva, Annika's clinically depressed aunt(?). Nonetheless, this remains a gentle time capsule of one adolescent summer of bliss, leaving completely open how longlived their love will be, although there is the sense that, provided they can avoid the traps of adulthood, such as Annika's father's Napoleon complex, they should be okay.
(En kälekshistoria)
Country: SV
Technical: col 115m
Director: Roy Andersson
Cast: Ann-Sofie Kylin, Rolf Sohlman, Anita Lindblom, Bertil Norström
Synopsis:
The fourteen year-old son of a repair shop mechanic courts the daughter of a refrigerator salesman. Despite interference from their peer group and the spectacle of adult unhappiness, they find peace and simplicity in their love.
Review:
Released in the US as simply 'A Love Story', this perhaps owes its alternative UK title to the fact that Arthur Hiller's classic had come out by then. It's strongly inflected with French New Wave features, in the casual approach to camerawork and rejection of bourgeois concerns; little in common with the director's formalised later work, except for the jaundiced view of society. What disappoints is that in spite of its great length there is much about the detail surrounding supporting characters that goes unexplained, particularly in the case of Eva, Annika's clinically depressed aunt(?). Nonetheless, this remains a gentle time capsule of one adolescent summer of bliss, leaving completely open how longlived their love will be, although there is the sense that, provided they can avoid the traps of adulthood, such as Annika's father's Napoleon complex, they should be okay.