Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2009 / Flickan / Sweden 2009
Set in the early 1980s, during a rural Swedish summer, this beautifully crafted feature excels at depicting the private realms kids stealthily create when free of adult supervision as its unnamed heroine finds a way to get rid of her feckless aunt and take care of herself while her parents are away.
More apt to be appreciated by adults than by kids, The Girl offers a haunting, poetic portrait of childhood solitude that brings to mind resonant mood pieces such as Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcher and Dorota Kedzierzawska’s The Crows. Set in the early 1980s, during a rural Swedish summer, this beautifully crafted feature excels at depicting the private realms kids stealthily create when free of adult supervision. Not quite 10, the unnamed heroine (Blanca Engström) is a solemn, freckle-faced waif who finds a way to get rid of her feckless aunt and take care of herself while her parents travel to Africa. The girl is a loner and a dreamer, repelled by the fleshiness, physical desires and vices she views in the adult domain. Most at ease with neighborhood outcast Ola (Vidar Fors), the girl confides her secrets as they explore the forest and hayloft.
98 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Fredrik Edfeldt
/ Screenplay Karin Arrhenius
/ Dir. of Photography Hoyte van Hoytema
/ Music Mad Planet, Dan Berridge
/ Editor Bernhard Winkler
/ Producer David Olsson
/ Production ACNE Film AB
/ Cast Blanca Engström, Shanti Rooney, Annika Hallin, Tova Magnusson Norling, Vidar Fors
/ Contact Swedish Film Institute, Delphis Films
Swedish Film Institute
Box 27126, S-102 52, Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 866 511 00
Fax: +46 866 118 20
E-mail: [email protected]
Delphis Films
, H2W 1M5, Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Phone: + 1 514 843 3355, +1 514 843 9574
E-mail: [email protected]
Fredrik Edfeldt
Film Director
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