In the age of "Stranger Things," everyone wants to make their nostalgia-soaked Amblin-esque movie. And every one of those movies arrives with a wink — Look at us! We're remixing and reheating that thing you love! That makes "UFO Sweden," an out-of-nowhere miracle of a science fiction adventure from the Swedish filmmaking collective Crazy Pictures, all the more satisfying. Everyone in Hollywood wants to capture those Spielberg-ian, those Donner-ian vibes. They lean so hard on the "Remember this thing you loved?" pump that they forget to make something that actually stands alone, capturing the quality that defined that kind of movie while eschewing the obvious trappings.
Leave it to a bunch of uber-talented Swedes to out-Hollywood Hollywood and craft the kind of character-centric adventure that used to be this industry's bread and butter. The 1996 setting of "UFO Sweden" isn't just an aesthetic (even though it is well utilized), but a...
Leave it to a bunch of uber-talented Swedes to out-Hollywood Hollywood and craft the kind of character-centric adventure that used to be this industry's bread and butter. The 1996 setting of "UFO Sweden" isn't just an aesthetic (even though it is well utilized), but a...
- 9/25/2023
- by Jacob Hall
- Slash Film
The teen sci-fi film is directed by the Crazy Pictures collective.
REinvent has closed a batch of deals on its EFM title UFO Sweden, directed by the Crazy Pictures collective.
The film has now sold to France (Wild Bunch), Italy (Plaion), Poland (Vivarto) and Baltics (Estin Film). This adds to previous deals to Germany (Telepool), Spain (A Contracorriente Films) and Hungary (Vertigo).
The story is described as “the love child between The X-Files and Stranger Things, set in a small town in 1990s Sweden”. It is about a rebellious teenage girl, played by Inez Dahl Torhaug, who believes her father has been kidnapped by aliens.
REinvent has closed a batch of deals on its EFM title UFO Sweden, directed by the Crazy Pictures collective.
The film has now sold to France (Wild Bunch), Italy (Plaion), Poland (Vivarto) and Baltics (Estin Film). This adds to previous deals to Germany (Telepool), Spain (A Contracorriente Films) and Hungary (Vertigo).
The story is described as “the love child between The X-Files and Stranger Things, set in a small town in 1990s Sweden”. It is about a rebellious teenage girl, played by Inez Dahl Torhaug, who believes her father has been kidnapped by aliens.
- 2/16/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
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