En Kärlekshistoria

I could never love a girl who dislikes this movie.

Uma História De Amor Sueca estreava há 50 anos na Suécia. Certamente não "senti" esse filme porque ele tem todo um aparato geracional entre o amor jovem e o cinismo adulto, mas a falta de um coeficiente de gênero torna tudo isso obsoleto. Essa mesma questão no Não Amarás do Kieslowski é muito mais pujante. BlurayRip no MakingOff.

(Viewed in 2012): Early Andersson film has little in common stylistically with his later formalist works, but it shares their disdain for petty bourgeois concerns, even if it's less surreal. It's a relatively simple film that contrasts the idealism of youth with the cynicism of adulthood, balancing a tale of young love with middle aged resentment. The scenes of the young couple are the most interesting, and the hazy soft focus look, while time bound, creates an effective melancholy mood.

A bit uneven, but it has some lovely humanity to the interactions, particularly the children, and while it's superficially quite different from Andersson's later work you can feel that exploration of an alienated society bordering towards absurdity bubbling under everything.

Because this doesn't resemble a modern Andersson picture at all (well, except for the finale), I wonder whether all great (Scandinavian) directors have this sort of unaffected, well-observed naturalism in them, and whether there is that much currency in it after all. For what it's worth, this is a wonderful love story, and it doesn't betray the kids' feelings.

Sweet little 'first love' story. I primarily enjoyed the biting portrait of the grown-ups, though: Pitiful, boring, lonely, bitter, bourgeois. The short scene where 6-7 adults are gathered to meticulously install some dingy white saloon doors in the living room is priceless!

Aged but still a classic in Scandinavian coming-of-age films. Don't go hoping for (or fearing, depending on who you are) a 'Sange fra anden sal', because this film is much more simple and conventional.

A very Swedish film. Feels very real.

Very beautiful. Great film.

2 confronting stories: The rather well defined teenager love story and the interwoven fighting between grown-ups. None of them are able to produce one single dialogue but what lacks in literary talent has been compensated by the pure atmosphere of it all. (Check: Round The Moon - Summercamp for an alternative and way more suiting soundtrack)

Boring , banal , but not a bad film at all . The girl turning her head in the disco is stuck with me forever .

The tone is very unusual: on one hand, there's the central story, a sweet and authentic (perhaps slightly idealized) look at young teenage courtship. This is starkly contrasted by the adults, all of whom are bitter, petty and miserable. It's like Bergman doing Endless Love. The constrast is most blatant in the final portion of the film: when the grown-ups are busy bickering and sniping at each other, the young lovers are busy making out in the barn, oblivious to the glimpse of their future selves they could be witnessing. It's not a brilliant film, and the cheese soundtrack dates it badly, but it's pretty interesting.