Isolation from civilisation for all the wrong reasons is the subject of the second film from Swedish filmmaker Hanna Sköld.
Titled Granny’s Dancing On the Table, Sköld takes on both directing and screenwriting duties once again, with veteran Swedish performer Lennart Jähkel and relative newcomer Blanca Engström taking on the lead roles.
A young girl living under the heel of her tyrannical religious zealot father in the depths of the Swedish forests finds strength in the memory of her rebellious grandmother, in the searing new feature from director Hanna Sköld.
This is Skold’s first feature since her debut film Nasty Old People in 2009, though she has made short films in the interval. Granny’s Dancing on the Table went through a kickstarter campaign before finding funding from the Swedish Film Institute. The trailer itself highlights the isolated landscape in which the story takes place, while also displaying the...
Titled Granny’s Dancing On the Table, Sköld takes on both directing and screenwriting duties once again, with veteran Swedish performer Lennart Jähkel and relative newcomer Blanca Engström taking on the lead roles.
A young girl living under the heel of her tyrannical religious zealot father in the depths of the Swedish forests finds strength in the memory of her rebellious grandmother, in the searing new feature from director Hanna Sköld.
This is Skold’s first feature since her debut film Nasty Old People in 2009, though she has made short films in the interval. Granny’s Dancing on the Table went through a kickstarter campaign before finding funding from the Swedish Film Institute. The trailer itself highlights the isolated landscape in which the story takes place, while also displaying the...
- 9/2/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Flickan / The Girl (2009) Direction: Fredrik Edfeldt Cast: Blanca Engström, Tova Magnusson-Norling, Emma Wigfeldt, Michelle Vistam, Vidar Fors Screenplay: Karin Arrhenius In rural Sweden, a young girl's parents jet off to Africa on a charity trip, leaving the child (Blanca Engström) in the care of an inattentive aunt. The Girl — that's how she's listed in the credits, her name is never revealed — quickly tires of her caretaker's cycle of wild parties in the evening and hangovers in the morning, and contrives a way to send her off on a trip with an old boyfriend. The Girl is a quiet, observant type, and, though she has friends in a skinny farm boy and a chubby teenage girl who lives in a nearby town, she quickly adapts to life on her own. Fredrik Edfeldt's Flickan / The Girl, Honorable Mention for Best Debut Film at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, is fairly adept [...]...
- 3/3/2011
- by Dan Erdman
- Alt Film Guide
Director: Fredrik Edfeldt Writer(s): Karin Arrhenius (screenplay) Starring: Blanca Engström, Calle Lindqvist, Tova Magnusson-Norling, Shanti Roney, Annika Hallin The titular girl (Blanca Engström) -- who remains unnamed throughout the film -- is left behind by her idealist parents (Shanti Roney & Annika Hallin) who are off to Africa with their older son (Calle Lindqvist) for a feel good summer of helping and saving Africans. Six months shy of 10-years old, the girl is too young to travel with them. A free-spirited aunt (Tova Magnusson-Norling) is summoned to stay with the girl, but it soon becomes obvious that parenting is not the aunt’s forte. In a film in which it is the adults who act the most irresponsible, selfish and childish -- at least in the absence of other adults -- the girl is soon left alone fending for herself. (You know, like Home Alone...but without Joe Pesci and Swedish.
- 9/17/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
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