nordic currents

At last - here is a roundup of all the movies seen this far at Stockholm Film Festival.

We started thursday last week with thai movie Baytong (2003) about a monk. His sister is killed in a terrorist train bombing and he leaves the monastery to take care of his niece while finding the absent father. Picturing life in a normal thai city it is a intriguing movie with many facets of understanding.

Then friday we saw Happines (1998) by Todd Solondz - a good miserable movie where noone is entirely happy and the most normal everyday persons turns out to be monsters while those that appear to be nuts... well, you get the idea.

And yesterday, italian movie, La Spettatrice (2004), directed by Paolo Franchi, perhaps the best this far. It is set in Torino and Roma and tells the story of Valeria, a longing person that travels with the object of her longing, Massimo, at the same time as traveling inwards. She gets employed by Flavia, Massimos partner, in order to get closer to him, and there you are in a vicious circle described with restrained italian passion.

Coming up is a set of documentaries - more about those later....