Tag: Scandinavian Film Festival

The Land of Short Sentences [Meter i sekundet] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2023

The Land of Short Sentences [Meter i sekundet] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2023

Review by John P. Harvey. Rasmus (Thomas Hwan) and Marie (Sofie Torp) and their infant son, Moo, have been happily ...
One Day All This Will Be Yours [En dag kommer allt det här bli ditt] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2023

One Day All This Will Be Yours [En dag kommer allt det här bli ditt] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2023

Review by Michele E. Hawkins. Lisa (Karen Franz Körlof), a successful newspaper cartoonist, is invited to join her siblings at ...
Let the River Flow [Ellos eatnu — La elva leve] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2023

Let the River Flow [Ellos eatnu — La elva leve] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2023

Review by John P. Harvey. It is 1979, in the Norwegian town of Alta. Ester (Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen), a ...
Fathers & Mothers [Fædre & mødre] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2023

Fathers & Mothers [Fædre & mødre] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2023

Review by John P. Harvey. Twelve-year-old Hannah (Ida Skelbæk-Knudsen) is going to have to change schools yet again. Her parents, ...
The Grump: In Search of an Escort [Mielensäpahoittaja Eskorttia etsimässä] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2023

The Grump: In Search of an Escort [Mielensäpahoittaja Eskorttia etsimässä] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2023

Review by Michele E. Hawkins. Mielensäpahoittaja (the grump), played by Heikki Kinnunen, lives and works on his ancestral farm in ...
Nothing to Laugh About [Ingenting å le av] — Scandinavian film Festival 2022

Nothing to Laugh About [Ingenting å le av] — Scandinavian film Festival 2022

Review by John P. Harvey. Having, as he puts it, stopped paying attention to life and his part in it, ...
Margrete — Queen of the North [Margrete den første] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2022

Margrete — Queen of the North [Margrete den første] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2022

Review by John P. Harvey. The year is 1402. It is 15 years since Denmark’s Queen Margrete (Trine Dyrholm) gave ...
70 Is Just a Number [70 on vain numero] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2022

70 Is Just a Number [70 on vain numero] — Scandinavian Film Festival 2022

Review by Michele E. Hawkins. Seija Kuula (Hannele Lauri) is a former Eurovision contestant who, at almost 70, continues to ...