Christer Berg dies in a car crash and is found with a teddy bear named "Bamse". His son, also named Christer finds out that Bamse belongs to his father's lover Barbro Persson. He tries to humiliate her, introducing her to his mother as his new fiancée. But he ends up falling in love with her, and she sees in him the memories of her dead lover. When she finds herself pregnant, they have to decide about their love affair.
Acting
Grynet Molvig's devastating ambiguity—victim or architect?
Direction
Mattsson frames desire like a crime scene investigation.
Score
Haunting strings that refuse to let scenes end comfortably.
Director
Arne Mattsson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Sweden's 'new wave' of erotic arthouse cinema, this was shockingly mainstream for its taboo subject matter.
Director Arne Mattsson was already famous for 'One Summer of Happiness'—this was his attempt to prove he could make audiences uncomfortable in entirely new ways.
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