Sweden: A SELECTION

WOE IS SWEDEN (a tale with a moral, following the sad defeat of Sweden to Russia at football in 2008- repeated in our 2009 film world cup).

And so it came to pass that a land of midsummer light was filled with darkness and despair. And a terrible huge rumbling roar, the sound of great weeping and gnashing of teeth, broke forth from the shores of Gotland to the great Lapp Gate twixt the towering peaks; from the waves of the Baltic shores, to the glowing waters of Tannforsen and the furthest northern reaches of the roaming moose. “Can it be, father” cried a teenage lad amid the wailing, jostling throngs in the vast cavernous...