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Are We Lost Forever *** (2020, Björn Elgerd, Jonathan Andersson, Micki Stoltt, Nemanja Stojanovic) – Classic Movie Review 12,375

Writer-director David Färdmar’s Swedish 2020 gay intimate relationship drama film Are We Lost Forever focuses sharply on a painful breakup. It starts the same way the 2021 Italian film Mascarpone begins, with a long-term lover […]

Dec, 31

Loving Couples [Älskande Par] *** (1964, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré, Anita Björk, Gunnar Björnstrand, Eva Dahlbeck) – Classic Movie Review 11,796

Director Mai Zetterling’s daring and provocative Swedish 1964 first feature film Loving Couples [Älskande Par] stars Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré, Anita Björk, Gunnar Björnstrand and Eva Dahlbeck. It is based on the novel […]

Dec, 17

The Abdication * (1974, Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 10,523

Queen Christina: ‘I, Christina, Sovereign of Sweden, do hereby abdicate my throne.’ ‘She shook the Vatican like an earthquake. Shocking whispers had preceded her. Debauchery. Unspeakable acts. A reign of scandal… And now she had […]

Nov, 10

A Lesson in Love [En Lektion i Kärlek] *** (1954, Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Björnstrand, Harriet Andersson, Yvonne Lombard) – Classic Movie Review 10,393

The 1954 Swedish black and white romantic comedy drama A Lesson in Love [En Lektion i Kärlek] is written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Bergman probes marital boredom and the unsatisfactory solution of adultery in […]

Oct, 08

Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen] **** (1968, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin) – Classic Movie Review 9922

Director Ingmar Bergman draws on his own recurring nightmares for his troubling 1968 Swedish psychological horror film Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen], which stars Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann in a story about the […]

Jun, 16

Hugs and Kisses [Puss & kram] *** (1967, Sven-Bertil Taube, Agneta Ekmanner, Lena Granhagen, Håkan Serner, Ingrid Boström) – Classic Movie Review 9281

Writer-director Jonas Cornell’s 1967 romantic comedy drama Hugs and Kisses [Puss Och Kram] is a bright, deliciously offbeat Swedish film centring on an aspiring author John (Håkan Serner) who is thrown out by his girlfriend […]

Jan, 19

My Life as a Dog [Mitt liv som hund] **** (1985, Anton Glanzelius, Tomas von Brömssen, Anki Lidén) – Classic Movie Review 9100

‘It could have been worse. I’ve actually been lucky. If you compare… My Life as a Dog’ Set in the Fifties, director Lasse Hallström’s magical bitter-sweet 1985 film My Life as a Dog [Mitt liv […]

Nov, 26

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