Sucks! If this movie would have contained ANY kind of humor, it would have rated somewhere in the neighborhood of the Attack of the Killing Tomatoes, but sadly, no; no excuse for this having been filmed at all. Embarrassing to see Rob Lowe, who must have been panicking for a contract when accepting this one. Sad!
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Under the Sun
(1998)
Splendid film about the sadness of love and the confinement and shame of illiteracy
24 December 2001
This film touched my heart. Set in rural Sweden in the mid '50s and beautifully telling the tale of shy, reluctant love, the jealousy between friends and the claustrophobic agony of illiteracy, the film leaves you with the hope that just sometimes the innocent might prevail over the cunning. As a bonus, on top of the psychological subtlety that Nutley handles so well, you are also treated to the beauty of a landscape still remembered and missed.
Nutley elegantly suggests outcomes of actions without overstating it, like when he lets one of his characters mention that he signed on as a crew member of Andrea Doria which went under in 1956, the year described in the film.
Paradoxically, no Swedish director has ever succeeded in describing the soul of the Swedish people or painting the beauty of the Swedish countryside as brilliantly or lovingly, for that matter - as Colin Nutley has.
Nutley elegantly suggests outcomes of actions without overstating it, like when he lets one of his characters mention that he signed on as a crew member of Andrea Doria which went under in 1956, the year described in the film.
Paradoxically, no Swedish director has ever succeeded in describing the soul of the Swedish people or painting the beauty of the Swedish countryside as brilliantly or lovingly, for that matter - as Colin Nutley has.
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