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Let the Right One In

Låt den rätte komma in

Sweden

2008

110 Min
Color
2.35:1
Swedish
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DIR Tomas Alfredson

PROD Carl Molinder, John Nordling

SCR John Ajvide Lindqvist

DP Hoyte Van Hoytema

CAST Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl

ED Tomas Alfredson, Daniel Jonsäter

PROD DES Eva Norén

MUSIC Johan Söderqvist

Tribeca, São Paulo, Göteborg (Competition): Best Nordic Film

Synopsis

Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson weaves friendship, rejection and loyalty into a disturbing and darkly atmospheric, yet poetic and unexpectedly tender tableau of adolescence. Let the Right One In is based on the best-selling novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist.

Twelve year old Oskar is an outsider; struggling to fit in at school and left alone to fend for himself at home while his mother works nights. One evening he meets the mysterious Eli. As a sweet romance blossoms between them, Oskar learns to overcome his tormentors and discovers Eli’s dark secret and the connections to gruesome events occurring across town. Together they must help Eli be gone and live, or stay and die.

Director

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Tomas Alfredson

Tomas Alfredson started his movie career by working as an assistant at Svensk Filmindustri. He spent a couple of years directing music videos and another couple of years starting up Swedish television…( read more) channel TV4. At TV4 Tomas was part of building the entertainment department and initiated several long term successes such as “Fort Boyard”.

After his time at TV4 Tomas spent the next few years at SVT, the Swedish public broadcaster, with popular television series such as “Ikas TV-kalas” and entertainment show “7 till 9” together with legendary television producer Bo Rehnberg. In the early nineties Tomas directed his first television series for SVT´s drama department, “Bert”, a hugely successful family entertainment series. When the popular character was taken to the big screen in 1995 in Bert – den siste oskulden (Bert – The Last Virgin), Tomas was nominated to a Guldbagge Award for best director (the official Swedish film award, awarded annually since 1964 by the… read more

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8Mar13

It's the kind of film that you can't explain why, but it gets you obsessed with it.

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j.h m

8Feb13

Beautiful, Scary, Moving. speechless. The last scene gave me a combination of various emotions hard to tell.

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Tomas Alfredson's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"

By David Hudson on December 8, 2011

“For Alfredson the moral is contained in the aesthetic.”

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Now in theaters: "Let the Right One In" (Alfredson, Sweden)

By Daniel Kasman on October 24, 2008

Above: Kåre Hedebrant as Oskar, thinking about what we wants to do to his classmate bullies. "Let the right one in" is a delicious phrase

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Now in theaters: "Let the Right One In" (Alfredson, Sweden)

By Daniel Kasman on October 24, 2008

Above: Kåre Hedebrant as Oskar, thinking about what we wants to do to his classmate bullies. "Let the right one in" is a delicious phrase

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FANTASIA: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Tomas Alfredson’s Let The Right One In is a film difficult to summarize not because of its content but because of the way Alfredson handles that content. The story of a vampire befriending a twelve year
read on Twitchfilm.com

IFFR 2008: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Few things can be harder than making an original vampire movie. The subject has been done to death over and over again yet it keeps rising from its grave, each time more tired and derivative than before
read on Twitchfilm.com

TAD2008: Let the Right One In

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
It’s almost redundant to write a review of Let the Right One In at this point. You should all know by now that we are unanimously in love with this film. Tonight’s screening at Toronto After Dark marked
read on Twitchfilm.com

DEAD CHANNELS 2008—Let the Right One In (Låt den Rätte Komma in)

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Genres are borrowed skins. Filmmakers adopt them and adapt them to fit the stories they want to tell. In the case of Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish coming-of-age vampire tale Let the Right One In (Låt den Rätte
read on Twitchfilm.com

Fantastic Fest '08 Review. Let The Right One In

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
A lonely boy befriends a girl who turns out to be a vampire….
read on Twitchfilm.com

IFFR 2008: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN Review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
Few things can be harder than making an original vampire movie. The subject has been done to death over and over again yet it keeps rising from its grave, each time more tired and derivative than before
read on Twitchfilm.net

FANTASIA: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN Review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
Tomas Alfredson’s Let The Right One In is a film difficult to summarize not because of its content but because of the way Alfredson handles that content. The story of a vampire befriending a twelve year
read on Twitchfilm.net

Fantastic Fest '08 Review. Let The Right One In

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
A lonely boy befriends a girl who turns out to be a vampire.
read on Twitchfilm.net

DEAD CHANNELS 2008—Let the Right One In (Låt den Rätte Komma in)

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
Genres are borrowed skins. Filmmakers adopt them and adapt them to fit the stories they want to tell. In the case of Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish coming-of-age vampire tale Let the Right One In (Låt den Rätte
read on Twitchfilm.net

TAD2008: Let the Right One In

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
It’s almost redundant to write a review of Let the Right One In at this point. You should all know by now that we are unanimously in love with this film. Tonight’s screening at Toronto After Dark marked
read on Twitchfilm.net

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Let The Right One In... from Ecos Imprevistos blog

By ArmPaul​oFer on April 3, 2012

Neste filme deparamo-nos com uma abordagem muito correcta ao tema vampírico e com um ponto de vista até invulgar: é a amizade entre duas crianças, um menino e uma menina.
Somos colocados como espectadores…  read review

Deixa Ela Entrar, de Tomas Alfredson

By Leonard​o Mascaro on March 30, 2012

Se você é dos que nunca entendeu porque tanta gente idolatra o cinema europeu, esta é uma grande oportunidade para descobrir os motivos que fazem dele um cinema mais realista, construído nas sutilezas…  read review

Watch it for the blood

By Seth Farmer on January 10, 2012

Let the Right One in is the most pretentious vampire movie I’ve ever seen. I mean it— where others have consistently championed this film for being a “fresh” and “modern” take on vampires, I see only…  read review

Let The Right One In

By Nick Da Costa on December 13, 2011

Vampires, far more than humans, realise the true cost of love, and because they are immortal, they smash up against the shores of this tragic landscape time and time again. In doing so, they also face…  read review

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Let the Right One In vs. Let Me In

58 posts by 21 people 7 months ago

Dumbing down subtitles.

37 posts by 22 people 10 months ago

is Let Me in a better film?

6 posts by 5 people over 2 years ago

An immature and immoral film? (spoilers)

51 posts by 25 people over 2 years ago

FAVORITE VAMPIRE FILMS

36 posts by 25 people over 2 years ago

The Rip-off Of "Let the Right One In" Is Just About Ready

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Let the Right One In (Subtitles)

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