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La beauté des choses

Original title: Lust och fägring stor
  • 1995
  • 12
  • 2h 10m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
8.2K
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POPULARITY
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La beauté des choses (1995)
DramaRomanceWar

Stig, a 15-year-old student, is attracted to the beauty of Viola, his 37-year-old teacher, and she, drawn to his youth and innocence, feels that he is a God-sent relief for her drunken and m... Read allStig, a 15-year-old student, is attracted to the beauty of Viola, his 37-year-old teacher, and she, drawn to his youth and innocence, feels that he is a God-sent relief for her drunken and miserable husband.Stig, a 15-year-old student, is attracted to the beauty of Viola, his 37-year-old teacher, and she, drawn to his youth and innocence, feels that he is a God-sent relief for her drunken and miserable husband.

  • Director
    • Bo Widerberg
  • Writer
    • Bo Widerberg
  • Stars
    • Johan Widerberg
    • Marika Lagercrantz
    • Tomas von Brömssen
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    8.2K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    2,846
    503
    • Director
      • Bo Widerberg
    • Writer
      • Bo Widerberg
    • Stars
      • Johan Widerberg
      • Marika Lagercrantz
      • Tomas von Brömssen
    • 26User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 6 wins & 7 nominations total

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    Johan Widerberg
    Johan Widerberg
    • Stig
    Marika Lagercrantz
    Marika Lagercrantz
    • Viola
    Tomas von Brömssen
    Tomas von Brömssen
    • Kjell
    Karin Huldt
    • Lisbet
    Nina Gunke
    Nina Gunke
    • Stig's Mother
    Björn Kjellman
    Björn Kjellman
    • Sigge
    Kenneth Milldoff
    • Stig's Father
    Frida Lindholm
    • Olga
    Sigge Cederlund
    • Cinema Operator
    Gösta Ekstrand
    Per Olov Börjeson
    Monica Stenbeck
    • Gym Teacher
    George Bisset
    Hilda Suovanen
    Jörgen Svensson
    Nynne Schwartz
    Magnus Andersson
    • Klass 3B Malmö Kommunala Mellanskola
    Mikael Bengtsson
    • Klass 3B Malmö Kommunala Mellanskola
    • Director
      • Bo Widerberg
    • Writer
      • Bo Widerberg
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    User reviews26

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    7jugophon

    a surprise

    I caught this film on Canadian television, and I was startled by the risque content being broadcast on a non-pay station. This is a story of a growing adolescent boy in a war-torn Europe. The focus of the movie is in the complex relationships he holds with the people in his life. The controversial nature may deter the more conservative American; however, the characters are well-rounded and acted and the cinematography is superb. I have a feeling this director may be famous in his home country, there is a touch of epic brilliance in the movement of the scenes.
    iota74

    I love this movie so much!

    I watched this movie by VCD and was so greatly touched by it that I watched it over and over again. There are much more I could feel than what I can put down for now. I really would like to know more about the story, its background and any information about the excellent actors and actress. What I have downloaded from the Internet was far from enough, even worse, most of them are written in Swedish. This totally denied me from having a better understanding of the movie. Unfortunately, I failed to get a Swedish-English/Chinese dictionary to help me out. (There is only a very brief one in Shanghai Foreign Book Trader with a price as high as 260 RMB).

    With all my knowledge so far, I think this movie is great in depicting how a youngster copes with whatever comes to him. Despite the sadness and confusion that he has gone through, he also gets the strength out of a kind of impotency. I really admire these artists of their talent in showing us the richness of life and in an elegant and natural way. In my eyes, there should be two kinds of arts: one is what "is", and the other is what "should be". As far as I've seen, many movies are relegated to what is not and what should not be. I just want to ask a favor to whomever you are, if you can help me with a Swedish dictionary and more about the movie. Of course, most importantly, your personal opinion about it.
    random-70778

    Imagine if the genders were reversed or both the teacher an the child were male, you would see it clearly as rape.

    Rape is rape. The "love scenes" are rape. Imagine if the genders were reversed or both the teacher an the child were male, you would see it clearly as rape. Teachers have authority and power over children and just like in the US -- in Sweden it is legally rape for a teacher in a school to have sex with a minor child who attends that school. There is no age under 18 where a minor may consent with a teacher

    Again if the genders were reversed in this and it were some 35 or 40 year old guy teacher and his 15-year-old girl student would we be saying, as some reviewers here are, that the "love scenes were "tender" and "beautiful." WTF?
    9E Canuck

    Sex and complexity...oh those Euro flicks

    Watching "All Things Fair" as it showed on TV here in Canada on CBC public network last night, was a treat. Only my sensible, nagging partner coaxing me to get to bed on a work night persuaded me we could trust the VCR to tape the last hour or so. Fortunately for his neck, the tape ran out during the closing credits and not before!

    What I liked most about the film (with English subtitles) was the complexity of Sig's world and his relationships. It's a very real world feeling on screen, full of quirky believability, despite Sig's unusual arrangement with his teacher.

    Though I know of a real life story resembling Sig's relationship with his teacher that went very differently for the teacher--ending in her virtual ruin--the behaviour of these film characters, the outcome and the aftermath, rings true nonetheless. No character is one-dimensional, even though the film schools us to sympathize with the choices of some and to repudiate others.

    It's delightful to find in the credits that the director gave the plum lead role to his son. It takes an admirable trust, I think, to turn over a role like this to one's own young kin, complete with whatever there is in the script that MIGHT be autobiographical.

    The female solo vocals in the soundtrack were wonderful. Now, I just need to found out who was singing like a bell whenever love or pain swelled in the story.
    7DukeEman

    To be young and in love with your teacher!

    This is the life most men wish they had - an affair with their teacher. But all were not so pretty as the one in here. It's a coming of age story set in a time when men were going off to die in wars and those left behind were trying to make sense of it all in a society that was slowly crumbling. More complicated than now but still relevant in today's youth. All handled brilliantly by the Swedish director, Bo Widerberg, who loves to tell his tales in sensual lighting and locations. He sometimes tends to go soapy but held it in line for hi last work of art. Hewas to pass away a couple of years later. But he left us with another tender story for the soul.

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    • Trivia
      Karin Huldt was 14 during filming.
    • Goofs
      RCA Red Seal records are shown playing on the phonograph nearly every time Stig and Kjell are listening to classical music, and when Stig is listening to a classical recording at his home; none of the pieces on the soundtrack were RCA recordings.
    • Connections
      Featured in Lust och fägring - En film om Bo Widerbergs sista (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      Rinaldo: Lascia ch'io pianga
      Music by George Frideric Handel (as Händel)

      Performed by Lesley Garrett with The Philharmonia Orchestra

      Conducted by Ivor Bolton

      Silva Screen Records (UK)

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    • Release date
      • January 29, 2020 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Denmark
      • Sweden
    • Languages
      • Swedish
      • English
      • German
    • Also known as
      • La belleza de las cosas
    • Filming locations
      • Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden
    • Production companies
      • Per Holst Filmproduktion
      • Det Danske Filminstitut
      • Nordisk Film & TV-Fond
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • DKK 25,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $13,128
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $4,530
      • Mar 10, 1996
    • Gross worldwide
      • $13,128
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 10 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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