| [filmlover-l] Movie this week: Mitt Liv Som
Hund (My Life As A Dog) |
Monday, November 28, 2011
11:31:41 PM |
| From: |
tbco@mtu.edu |
| To: |
filmlover-l@mtu.edu |
Hello everyone,
I hope you all had a nice thanksgiving.
For this wednesday, we are showing a Swedish movie "Mitt Liv Som Hund
(My Life As A Dog)" directed by Lasse Hallström.
Please feel free to pass the message around and invite your friends.
The more the merrier. Hope you can join us.
Regards,
Tom Co
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Title: Mitt Liv Som Hund (My Life As A Dog)
Date and Time: November 30, Wednesday, 6:30-9pm
Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock
Director: Lasse Hallström
Partial List of Actors:
Anton Glanzelius ...
Tomas von Brömssen
Anki Lidén
Melinda Kinnaman
Kicki Rundgren
Lennart Hjulström
Ing-Marie Carlsson
Leif Ericson
Christina Carlwind
Ralph Carlsson
US Rating: not rated (I think it is PG13)
Language: Swedish (with English subtitles)
Length: 101 mins
Media: Bluray, color
Summary: (by Alejandro Frias via www.imdb.com)
"The story sets in the late 1950s. Ingemar (Anton
Glanzelius), is a boy who lives with his older brother
and his ill mother. He loves dogs and is particularly
worried about Laika, the female Russian dog sent
to the space, which dies several days later because
the food run out. The boy has a normal life with an
only friend and his beloved female dog, but he simply
doesn't get along well with his brother, who spends
time playing practical jokes and make fun of poor
Ingemar...One day, Ingemar and his brother are
separated for the sake of their ill mother. Ingemar is
sent with his uncle, who lives in a small town with his
wife. There, Ingemar will bump into curious people..."
My Comments:
I personally consider this film a classic (first released
around
1985)...it was among the first few foreign films that
convinced
me of the treasure of interesting films that are much more
impressive than most hollywood movies.
Although Ingemar's life is more difficult than most average
kids, his strength and openness to life's gift is so
infectious
that we are able to find humor and beauty despite the dark
spots of life's offering. I remembered some friends
finding
the movie a bit depressing... yet I quite disagreed because
Ingemar refused to see it that way and I was moved to do
the same... which is why I found the movie so beautiful to
watch..
The director Lasse Hallström commented on an interview
included in the disk that this movie was such a hard act to
follow... I concur. It seemed so personal, so simple
and
yet endearing. The casting of Anton Glanzelius as Ingemar
was inspired and irreplaceable. The cinematography
was
also very good.
The version we are showing is a Bluray print distributed by
Criterion, so the images and sound are very good. (I
am
really glad for their careful treatment and preservation of
this particular film.)
