malte-lewan Reviews

Bardot (2023– )

Too slow and too much love life

[4/10 · 15 January 2024]

The tv series is too slow and there is too much focus on her love life. The idea seems to be we should feel sorry for the rich, beautiful, famous and talented girl with so many people around here who loves her, men, friends and family. But that idea is mostly provoking. In one scene, the theme known from Platoon is comically played while she forces herself through a crowd of people who adores her and her fame.

The actors are ok though and the theme is a good one. The writers seem to be saved by the notion that every episode should have a cliffhanger and perhaps that's the only thing that moves the story forward.

Riviera (2005)

Too slow, too many close-ups, to no use

[5/10 · 19 January 2009]

The settings are attractive in this movie. It is nice that it doesn't follow Hollywood conventions in its storytelling. In the beginning, you just enjoy that the film takes its time to portray the details. Then you realize that the details are neither pretty nor has an value for the rest of the film.

Also, this movie is ridiculously slow, in the end to no use. The slowness doesn't add any extra value. It's just boring. The other problem is that it's filmed so close to the actors and the props that you don't really get many nice, interesting pictures from it. You understand less and you don't gain anything. The movie is pretentious, yes.

The very end is surprising and exaggerated and it's difficult what it has anything to do with the rest of the movie. It's thin.

At least, the movie portrays a real setting (the French Riviera) in an OK way. Occasionally, the pictures are nice, almost by mistake zoomed out, it seems. And the movie is not predictable. I also like that it doesn't feel like it desperately need a story from start to end. It just is.

Vackert väder (1996)

A straightforward, attractive movie

[8/10 · 19 January 2009]

This used to be one of my favorite movies when I was younger. It's banal, but it does it's work very well with different settings. It's simple and it tells its story. I think its straightforwardness makes it an attractive little movie, that many people should be able to appreciate.

The basic theme is a stranger (from Stockholm) who comes to town (Malmö, in Skåne) for the summer. There, he falls in love with the local girl.

I come from the region, where it all happens, and it should be able to pass as a cult film regionally, I think. I'm afraid many people don't remember it though.