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Jalla! Jalla!

  • 2000
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  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
15K
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Jalla! Jalla! (2000)
Romantic ComedyComedyDramaRomance

Roro, second generation swede with family from Lebanon is a park worker together with Måns in this comedy about where Middle East and Sweden clashes. About forced marriage and true love.Roro, second generation swede with family from Lebanon is a park worker together with Måns in this comedy about where Middle East and Sweden clashes. About forced marriage and true love.Roro, second generation swede with family from Lebanon is a park worker together with Måns in this comedy about where Middle East and Sweden clashes. About forced marriage and true love.

  • Director
    • Josef Fares
  • Writer
    • Josef Fares
  • Stars
    • Fares Fares
    • Torkel Petersson
    • Tuva Novotny
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    15K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Josef Fares
    • Writer
      • Josef Fares
    • Stars
      • Fares Fares
      • Torkel Petersson
      • Tuva Novotny
    • 34User reviews
    • 33Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 7 wins & 4 nominations total

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    Fares Fares
    Fares Fares
    • Roro
    Torkel Petersson
    Torkel Petersson
    • Måns…
    Tuva Novotny
    Tuva Novotny
    • Lisa…
    Laleh Pourkarim
    Laleh Pourkarim
    • Yasmin
    Leonard Terfelt
    • Paul…
    Jan Fares
    • Farsan
    Sofi Helleday
    Sofi Helleday
    • Jenny
    • (as Sofi Ahlström Helleday)
    • …
    Benyam Eriksson
    • Benson
    Khatoun Fares
    • Farmor
    Abdulahad Fares
    • Abdul
    Ingemar Carlehed
    • Pappa Ulf
    Harry Goldstein
    • Sexbutiksägare
    Tommy Andersson
    Tommy Andersson
    • Peter
    Christer Fjällström
    • Polis
    Jakob Tamm
    • Simon Pramsten
    • (as Jacob Tamm)
    Caroline Fares
    • Caroline
    Lucy Wanes
    • Lucy
    Anders Dahl
    • Loppmarknadskund
    • Director
      • Josef Fares
    • Writer
      • Josef Fares
    • All cast & crew
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    7jablan

    Nothing new, but very positive and funny

    Notice that the similar movie as 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding', with the almost same topics dealing with (trouble of young eastern immigrants with their elders and their newly made relationships) succeeded to become so much popular and profitable.

    Both movies are positive, funny and relaxing, but the reason that I prefer Jalla Jalla is that I had no impression that this movie was made to be "holywoodish", as I had watching "the wedding". This one is much more natural and relaxed, and does not present the immigrants as bunch of conservative, raw and uncivilized people.

    After a lot much more praised Holywood crap, this is a movie I watched without having a sense of wasted time after.
    6Karl Self

    Let's go

    This is a conventionally told double love story in a multicultural setting. If nothing else it's charming, and the actors are interesting and give good performances. I agree with a previous reviewer that it's like a quality version of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, without the Hollywood glucose all over it, and also in the less worn-out setting of Sweden. The story is well told and keeps up the interest, but the end is predictable (like I said, conventional) and a bit too cute. I didn't really understand the problem between Måns and his girlfriend (Jenny?), they seem to fall out of love just because it suited the plot, and I thought that Måns' and Roro's third co-worker, the soul brother with the afro, was a bit too cute and multi-cultural (yes I got it -- we're one big family of cool dudes). My favourite role was Roro's very cool father. And a protagonist in the shape of a pudgy middle-aged Arab, you don't have that too often in a movie, do you?
    ilja-2

    The agony of choice

    I haven't left the cinema on such a high note in a long time; Jalla! Jalla! is a very funny comedy about a man torn between modern European and traditional Lebanese life, who tries to keep both his personae satisfied by continually compromising between the two. It is also a story of the friendship between this Lebanese second-generation immigrant and his colleague Måns. The story takes some time to unfold, but the film's perfectly timed pace makes it a joy to watch even as long as nothing appears to happen, and it only gets better once the action kicks in.

    Jalla! Jalla! is about change: grandma is still firmly rooted in the old ways, dad keeps up appearances but turns out more flexible than you thought and Roro is, for all intents and purposes, just as much a modern Swede as a Lebanese. Although he is sincere and outspoken, he's just not able to totally say goodbye to his heritage and his roots. Finally, it was very gratifying to see a film about immigrants without some profound and ostentatious message, but more occupied with the sometimes impossible daily choices between morality and practicality one is forced to make despite the lack of understanding in one's surroundings (and truth be told, neither Måns nor Lisa display much understanding for Roro's predicament). A good 'small' movie, I hope to see more of this director and these actors.
    tomtext

    Oh,No.Not again!

    One more Swedish movie with absolute nothing to say. The story about two friends,one of them forrigner who will married a Swedish girl,and the otherone,a Swedish man who have sexual problems. is so boring,bad acted,bad script that you will leave this after 5 minutes. One of the worst Swedish movie I ever have seen. Rating:0 out of 5.
    8philip_vanderveken

    Not preachy, but realistic and sometimes incredibly funny

    What can you expect from a Swedish comedy that is called "Jalla! Jalla!" and that has been made with an unknown cast by a man you've never heard of before? Quite a lot as this movie proves. It's subject certainly isn't one of the easiest, but Josef Fares made a good movie out of it.

    Don't ask me what "Jalla! Jalla!" stands for, because I really don't know. I don't even know if it is Arabic or Swedish (I guess the first). But what I do know is that this is a movie about Roro a man from Lebanese origin who works as a park attendant with his best friend Måns. Roro has a Swedish girlfriend, something that he doesn't want his parents to know , and is forced to marry a Lebanese/Swedish girl. He likes her but doesn't love her, but decides to marry her anyway to help her, because if she doesn't marry, her brother will send her back to Lebanon to their parents. Måns has entirely different problems. He has a relationship too, but because he's having potency problems, his relationships isn't exactly going very well. While Måns tries to fix his problem, using all kinds of methods, Roro has to try to keep up appearances while stalling the wedding plans and maintaining the relationship with his unknowing girlfriend.

    I must say that I didn't expect all that much about this movie. Normally a movie about mixed relationships or other multi-cultural society problems tends to get incredibly preachy. But not this movie, instead of showing how bad and racist the 'white man' is and how nice the 'black man', this movie has made a comedy out of it. And it works. The characters and the situations that they get in are believable, but more important also incredibly funny.

    The acting too was very nice. I had never heard of any of the actors before, but I must say that they all did a very nice job. Most surprising is probably that most of them has never played in any other movie before or since this one. Does that mean that these aren't professional actors? I don't know, but I sure hope to see them again soon, because I really had a very good time with this movie and I can't remember being annoyed by it once. That's also the reason why I give this movie at least a 7.5/10.

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    • Trivia
      The scene were a little girl runs after Lisa saying, "Lisa, wait Lisa. Wait," was not planned. It was a little girl who had threw sand at 'Torkel Pettersson', who finally threw some sand back. So she went away and ended up on set believing it was all real.
    • Goofs
      Police roadblocks can be seen in background around the square where Roro is beaten up by the guys with the dog.
    • Quotes

      Polis: [Måns is arrested by the police after throwing out furniture] Well, how did this happen?

      Måns: Ehm, what?

      Polis: Well, there's furniture on the street, under your balcony...

      Måns: I accidentally dropped them...

      Polis: Really? How?

      Måns: I don't know... I was going to... refurbish... a little and then i tripped... it was some little... edge that...

      Polis: On the balcony?

      Måns: Yes, exactly...

      Polis: With a whole drawer, a TV and an aquarium?

      Måns: Mm...

    • Connections
      Referenced in Cops (2003)
    • Soundtracks
      Refused Are Fuckin Dead
      Written by Dennis Lyxzén, David Sandström, Jon Brännström and Kristofer Steen

      Performed by Refused

      Courtesy of Burning Heart Records

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    • Release date
      • April 17, 2002 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • Sweden
    • Languages
      • Swedish
      • Arabic
    • Also known as
      • Давай! Давай!
    • Filming locations
      • Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
    • Production companies
      • Memfis Film
      • Dramatiska Institutet
      • Film i Väst
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $871,351
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 28m(88 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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