Quickie Review: About Endlessness
This Swedish film is less a single narrative than a walk through an absurdist museum, stopping to view a series of living tableaux, and then wandering on to the next.…
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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 13
This week's picks are heavy on big name directors: Louis Malle, Akira Kurasawa, Volker Schlöndorff, Ingmar Bergman, Billie August, Hal Ashby, and John Huston. Many of these are their first…
Review: Another Round
Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration, Far From the Madding Crowd) directed Mads Michelsen in The Hunt back 2013. In it Mikkelsen played a kindergarten teacher accused of a horrible crime he didn't…
Review: Koko-di Koko-da
Just in time for the holidays comes a truly creepy flick from Sweden about a couple grieving the loss of their young daughter and their crumbling marriage who go on…
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Quickie Review: Border (Gräns)
You probably won't see a more satisfyingly strange film this year than Border. The main character is Tina, a Swedish customs agent with an extraordinary talent. She can smell fear…
Review: Becoming Astrid
This lovely Swedish biopic tells the story of the challenging early life of Astrid Ericsson (Lindgren) who would go on to write the children's classic Pippi Longstocking and a slew…
Review: The Square
Winner of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival's Palme D'Or, The Square is a darkly funny satire set in the art world. Christian (Claes Bang) is the head curator at a…
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Mainstream Chick’s Top Picks of 2016
It's that time of year - when friends, family, and strangers in the elevator ask, "Hey, Did you see [fill in the blank]? Is it any good? What's your favorite…
A Man Called Ove (En man som heter Ove)
This adaptation of Fredrik Backman's bestselling novel is one of my favorite films of the year. Written and directed by Hannes Holm, it's 'a Swedish curmudgeon finds his humanity' story…
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Adapted from the best-selling novel by Jonas Jonasson, which I thoroughly enjoyed, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared is a fun little Swedish flick about an…
Force Majeure
There is a lot of buzz around Force Majeure, a Swedish relationship drama. They LOVED it at Cannes, it is Sweden's Oscar entry, and the Foreign Press has just nominated…
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
With all the hoopla about the penultimate Harry Potter and the third installment of The Chronicles of Narnia, the end of the Steig Larson Millennium Trilogy may have slipped your…
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The second installment of the Millennium Trilogy, The Girl Who Played with Fire, is really good, but unlike the first installment, I felt that there were lots of missing pieces…
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor)
In 1994, Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson died, leaving behind three unpublished novels. They became international bestsellers. And all three have been adapted to the screen in Swedish. The first in…