Lithivm

And if someone says something else, they must be lying.

I suppose the director at some point had a vision of a good movie, but the result is quite far from that. Never before have I seen a movie or even a home made amateur film that have done EVERYTHING so completely wrong.

If you are not Swedish you can't possibly understand how extremely stupid and unnatural the dialogue sounds. But anyone should be able to see that the story and characters are just too weird.

I actually saw the whole movie, just to see if there would be interesting twist or surprise that would make anything in this movie make sense, but there wasn't.

I recently had the opportunity to see Lithium at a local film festival. This film was not only the best film I saw at the festival, but one of the best films that I've seen in a long time.

The story takes place in Stockholm, Sweeden and revolves around a young girl who is working as an assistant journalist for a small paper. The girl soon becomes obsessed with a local story about a series of unsolved murders that have taken place, and becomes determined to find the killer on her own.

The director's unique, "hand held" style of filming combined with a very effective use of music and sound and a great story, make this a fascinating film.

If you like a good thriller that will keep you glued to the edge of your seat until the very end, this is a must see film!

Lithivm is without doubt the worst Swedish film ever. Fredrik Dolk has an habit to end up in very strange films, like Sektor 236 and Nattbus 807 but this flick has to take the price. The movie is on crack, to plot is all over the place and all the actors, with the exception of Fredrik Dolk are terrible. Björn Granath overacts like a maniac and it seems he might have done this on purpose realizing how horrible the film was.

The big irony is that this flick is one of those typical Swedish drama movies that we poor Swedes has to endure, because they are "artisitic" and "has a point".

This was a real good movie! it was filmed very nice, looked a bit like 16mm film (maybe it was...?), anyway, the acting was good, not very good. The story itself was also very good. I give this film 7,5 out of 10

As one of the few people unlucky enough to have paid for a cinema ticket to see "Lithivm", I have to agree with a Swedish film critic who called this film "Probably the worst film in the history of Swedish Cinema" (all other big city critics tended to agree, more or less).

Let's start with what the film does NOT have: It completely lacks story and comprehensible plot, the script has been written without even the slightest bit of research, it does not have a single piece of dialogue that feels natural; this paired with an utter lack of direction makes not only the amateur actors, but even the professional, good actors (who for unknown reasons took part in this thing) look absolutely ridiculous.

The film features irritating editing, and, most of all, it has a cinematic style that is simply nauseating. It was, for no particular reason, shot on (anamorphic) 16mm reversal colour film, with a blow up to 35mm scope. In short, this means the film is grainier than your Uncle Walt's old home movies from the 70's. Add to this the fact that the film has not been lit AT ALL, making it murky and dark at best. To finish off my comments on the "cinematography", it was shot hand held, something that seems to be in fashion lately. That's OK when you do it for a reason, but that doesn't seem to be the case with this film. Also, the hand held work seems to have been done by someone taking pride in constantly shaking the camera energetically, and jumping, not walking, whenever movement is called for. The whole thing actually made me feel physically ill after half an hour (this is the first time that has ever happened to me). I'm still amazed I didn't walk out of the cinema, I suppose having paid for a ticket combined with the jawdropping stupidity of the film made me stay to the dreary end.

The film well deservedly bombed completely in Sweden, despite a surprisingly large advertising campaign, and I was awestruck that it's been selected for inclusion in the Hollywood Film Festival. Why? The Millennium Turkey Awards (should there ever be such a thing) would have been so much more appropriate.

So, is there nothing good about the film? Actually there is. Out of the 2 hrs and 7 minutes running time, about 15 seconds worth of footage looks really cool. It's: 1. The main title, one of the best looking I've seen in a Swedish film, and 2. a bit with a corpse appearing in a mirror about half way through; the only slightly scary/interesting moment in a film that claims to be a thriller...

To conclude, and to answer the question made in the Summary above, YES, this is positively the worst Swedish film ever made, and you will do yourself a big favour by not watching it. Ever.