Eric_Sjoeberg
Lifetime Total
5+
IMDb Member
21 years
Reviews
Nordeste (2005)
Great acting performance
I was profoundly touched by this movie. There are two main stories. One about a french woman, Hélène, living in modern world, going to Argentina to adopt a baby. The other one is about Juana, a woman living in a rural world with her son, hopelessly left behind by the bolting modernization and capitalism of her native country.
The two womens paths will cross and they will try and find support and comfort in each others misery.
The performances by the actors in this movie, especially by Aymará Rovera, are truly exceptional. It is a great story telling us that we are sharing one world, having different problems and sooner or later will be forced to acknowledge each others co-existence.
It is a hard kick in solar-plexus of the roaring capitalism, exploiting the poorest and leaving them helpless behind. Go and see this movie if you get the chance. Please do.
The two womens paths will cross and they will try and find support and comfort in each others misery.
The performances by the actors in this movie, especially by Aymará Rovera, are truly exceptional. It is a great story telling us that we are sharing one world, having different problems and sooner or later will be forced to acknowledge each others co-existence.
It is a hard kick in solar-plexus of the roaring capitalism, exploiting the poorest and leaving them helpless behind. Go and see this movie if you get the chance. Please do.
Flesh (2005)
Too explicit
I saw this movie at Stockholm filmfestival before Kiss kiss bang bang. The director of the short film was there and he really seemed quite nervous that his film wouldn't get well received. A fear which was legitimate.
This is really not a good short film. The filmmakers are trying to make a statement which we really all know and to do this statement they use explicit photo of naked girls touching themselves and each other, projected on buildings in a fictitious New York city. It is all too obvious what they are trying to say and they could have done it in a much more subtle way. The reason it doesn't get 1/10 is that the animation actually is quite good.
This is really not a good short film. The filmmakers are trying to make a statement which we really all know and to do this statement they use explicit photo of naked girls touching themselves and each other, projected on buildings in a fictitious New York city. It is all too obvious what they are trying to say and they could have done it in a much more subtle way. The reason it doesn't get 1/10 is that the animation actually is quite good.
In Memory of My Father (2005)
Much better than expected
I was going to this movie thinking that I was about to see a head-on point of view on sons dealing with the death of their father. But this is a much more subtle film. The death of the father gives the film a mournful background on which great comedy and drama will take place.
I laughed out loud at several places and it is indeed a very funny movie but it also contain some profound thoughts and lessons of life. I love the way the sons can't deal with the death of their father and instead are concentrating on other problems in their lives making the absurd wake even more twisted. The music is great and I love this movie to bits. It is a movie which is truly complex, funny and beautiful and I really can't wait to see it again.
I laughed out loud at several places and it is indeed a very funny movie but it also contain some profound thoughts and lessons of life. I love the way the sons can't deal with the death of their father and instead are concentrating on other problems in their lives making the absurd wake even more twisted. The music is great and I love this movie to bits. It is a movie which is truly complex, funny and beautiful and I really can't wait to see it again.
Allegro (2005)
Classical beauty
I have to say that the strength of this movie is it's simplicity. It's beautiful in a very obvious way which really hits you right in the eye. The whole movie has some sort of delicate aura draping it and although the acting, as stated by other reviewers, is not a state of the art, the music and the very beautiful footage makes this a film well worth seeing.
The story is not complicated at all. It uses a lot of symbolism and the movie writer is obviously trying to trigger our imagination by jumping in time and place (in the same style as many filmmakers before him such as Spike Jonze and Michael Gondry) trying to make the moral statement of the film looking more complex than it really is.
This is a beautiful movie, it has some original touches such as the drawn episode and hopefully you will leave the cinema feeling the same way as I did, with a warm feeling inside and the beautiful music still playing in my ears.
The story is not complicated at all. It uses a lot of symbolism and the movie writer is obviously trying to trigger our imagination by jumping in time and place (in the same style as many filmmakers before him such as Spike Jonze and Michael Gondry) trying to make the moral statement of the film looking more complex than it really is.
This is a beautiful movie, it has some original touches such as the drawn episode and hopefully you will leave the cinema feeling the same way as I did, with a warm feeling inside and the beautiful music still playing in my ears.
I afton Lantz (2001)
A worthless Swedish answer to Jay Leno.
This is not worth wasting your time on. The hostess, Annika Lantz, former known from "Parlamentet" etc. is not at all funny, she tries to be funny but her lack of timing and humor is too essential. A few (some of the are quite interesting) Swedish celebrities have been in the show but the questions asked to them are just silly and dull.