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A Swedish Love Story
A Swedish Love Story
7.8
/10
2,944 Ratings

A SWEDISH LOVE STORY

En kärlekshistoria

Directed by Roy Andersson
Sweden, 1970
Drama, Romance

Synopsis

Two teenagers meet and cautiously fall in love in beautiful surroundings during the peak of an idyllic Swedish summer. Oblivious to social boundaries, they innocently create their own inner world, expecting little from the dysfunctional and world-weary adults around them.

Synopsis

Two teenagers meet and cautiously fall in love in beautiful surroundings during the peak of an idyllic Swedish summer. Oblivious to social boundaries, they innocently create their own inner world, expecting little from the dysfunctional and world-weary adults around them.

Our take

Thirty years before Songs from the Second Floor, Roy Andersson made his feature debut with this glorious love story. Looser than his later masterworks—but every bit as funny!—its keen eye for balancing the existential and the absurd means there’s little mistaking this for the work of anyone else.