A Man Called Ove - Galway Film Society. September 2017
Director: Hannes Holm · 116 minutes · Sweden/Norway · 2016.
This was my first outing to the Galway Film Society's Sunday night showings in a while. The film was in the Town Hall Theatre, which is a nice change of venue to regular IMC or more plush Eye Cinema - arty and serious film buff clientele and my favourite, no trailers or torrents of adverts pre movie, and even better, no bag rattling or food munching. I am a grumpy film buff for sure. Now to movie:- I loved it. It left me with a feel good factor which is very much a positive for a Sunday evening.
The film is based on a best-selling novel by Fredrik Backman, "A Man Called Ove. " A Swedish comedy-drama, the film tells the story of Ove - a widower, struggling to come to terms with the death of his wife six months previously to cancer. He keeps being interrupted from his attempts to hang himself by his new neighbours, who are a young family with a no-nonsense mother, Parvanah, who helps save him from his sad, lonely life and make his life worth living again. She pierces his hard-shell with her delicious Middle Eastern home-cooking and provides Ove with companionship he has sorely missed since his wife's death. Ove's early life is told in flashbacks, particularly the tragedies, which really help us understand what makes him the bitter, busy body that he now is.
Stern and cranky, Ove is played by Rolf Lassgard, whom I recognized, as I have watched lots of Wallander, the Swedish detective film series.
WINNER, BEST EUROPEAN COMEDY, EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2016
The film is based on a best-selling novel by Fredrik Backman, "A Man Called Ove. " A Swedish comedy-drama, the film tells the story of Ove - a widower, struggling to come to terms with the death of his wife six months previously to cancer. He keeps being interrupted from his attempts to hang himself by his new neighbours, who are a young family with a no-nonsense mother, Parvanah, who helps save him from his sad, lonely life and make his life worth living again. She pierces his hard-shell with her delicious Middle Eastern home-cooking and provides Ove with companionship he has sorely missed since his wife's death. Ove's early life is told in flashbacks, particularly the tragedies, which really help us understand what makes him the bitter, busy body that he now is.
Stern and cranky, Ove is played by Rolf Lassgard, whom I recognized, as I have watched lots of Wallander, the Swedish detective film series.
WINNER, BEST EUROPEAN COMEDY, EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2016
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