Malmkrog is pure beauty and it's exceptional in every way: directing, acting, cinematography, sound, set design, costumes, location. All you have to do is sit in your seat without any prejudice, any expectations, any bias. If you keep your mind and heart open, you will be amazed and touched that a group of late 19th-century aristocrats could discuss such current issues for our century. You will be amazed and touched that they do not understand their times either. And you will mourn their fate, just as our descendants will mourn ours.
If you don't like it the first time, don't rush, give it another try. Whenever a movie comes out of the "amusement park" and confronts us with serious questions about ourselves and the world we live in, we tend to put it aside and think the movie is to blame. It's either too opaque, or too long, or just a bad movie. It is easier for us to believe that it is the author's fault, not ours. But who is to blame when we don't like Dostoevsky's Demons or Dante's Inferno?
If you don't like it the first time, don't rush, give it another try. Whenever a movie comes out of the "amusement park" and confronts us with serious questions about ourselves and the world we live in, we tend to put it aside and think the movie is to blame. It's either too opaque, or too long, or just a bad movie. It is easier for us to believe that it is the author's fault, not ours. But who is to blame when we don't like Dostoevsky's Demons or Dante's Inferno?