A SWEDISH LOVE STORY [EN KÄRLEKSHISTORIA]
by Roy Andersson Sweden 1970 35 mm 115 min. OV Engl. ST
Andersson’s first feature, his thesis film at the Swedish Film Institute, was a great critical and popular success in his home country.
With the gorgeous Swedish summer as a backdrop, the film portrays the pure love that arises between the daughter of a refrigerator salesman and the son of a car mechanic, offering a glimpse into the lives and homes of the people of the Swedish Social Democracy during its heyday. In contrast, Andersson shows the really messed-up lives of Annika’s and Pär’s parents who desperately fight against fears and boredom in their daily routine.
Andersson’s debut is a typically stirring mélange of comedy and melancholy, the quotidian and the absurd.
