Tag Archives: Sweden

Tales from the Golden Age – making sense of the nonsense in Communist Romania

Posted on 14 April 2010 by Adele Craciun

It is hard to imagine that Romanian director Cristian Mungiu would be able to make anything funny after his award-winning grim abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days. But there is plenty of humour in Tales from the … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Let the Right One In – Swedish chiller gives the vampire genre a blood transfusion

Posted on 3 August 2009 by Jason Best

What with Twilight giving us teen bloodsuckers at the cinema and True Blood going for the jugular on TV, vampires are all the rage just now – but the work that has given the undead the biggest shot in the … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Let the Right One In

Posted on 10 April 2009 by Jason Best

  The makers of the unexpectedly brilliant Swedish vampire thriller Let the Right One In use the same basic formula as recent blockbuster Twilight, but they have concocted a film that is infinitely more chilling – and touching – than … Continue reading →

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Snow, snow, snow, snow snooooow!

Posted on 2 February 2009 by Adele Craciun

Like many people around London today, I am snowed in. Back home in Sweden this usually means: I can not open my door as the snow is blocking it. (In Sweden doors sensibly open outwards for health and safety reasons.) … Continue reading →

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