Lembrowski

Colin Nutley, pretty famous Englishman who have watched the Swedish way of life and put it on the screen for about 20 years, has now done an English version of his first big hit movie Änglagård (1992). His in real life wife Helena Bergström plays the lead (as usual!), and the acting is through the whole cast are quite good. But the story is not engaging and for many moments quite boring. Nutley spreads out the story in a couple of treads, that he doesn't really tie together in the end. Jens Fischers cinematography is what's great about this movie, and it is sometimes breathtaking. But this movie i a big step forward for Nutley after the worthless Liza Marklund-movies.

Jonas Åkerlund has done a lot of greats videos, and like other musicvideo directors (Spike Jonze etc) he had to do a motion picture. Åkerlund has been know as an controversial director, who uses a lot of sex, drugs and violence in his creations. No wonder "Spun" circles around these topics. The cast is great but the lack of experience in motion pictures from Åkerlunds part shines trough. He can not get the full potential out of the cast. Some are great, Mickey Rourke and the two policemen played by Peter Stormare and Alexis Arquette. But what I really liked about this movie is the soundtrack. And even if the cinematography sometimes is very irritating, i like this movie. It's not the best piece of work ever done, but it's not that bad. And if Åkerlund just get some more experience in film industry I think he really can do some great films in the future. He got av personal touch in his works, and a lot of ideas how to revolutionize feature films. But I'm just speculating.

First of all I want to say that for an European guy it takes a lot off effort to watch such a film as Gods and Generals. Not did I only laugh my as off in the festival och beards and the high theatrical talk. All I know about the civil war is what I've seen in the tv-series Noth and South. To make a movie about bearded men that talks funny dosen't make anyone happy. Give me a better portrait of the leaders och situation that the war was all about. A bigger picture of the war and it's happenings. But I must say this is not a bad movie, it's just to long, to slow, to theatrical and to bearded.