A lonely teacher muddles through a midlife crisis as he navigates romantic relationships and tries his hand at composing experimental music.
Acting
Serner's sweaty desperation is almost too real to watch.
Direction
Troell makes mundanity feel like slow-motion car crash.
Score
Magnus's 'experimental' music is gloriously terrible on purpose.
Director
Jan Troell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Klas Östergren's novel; Troell cast Serner after seeing him in a stage production where he sweat through his shirt.
The film satirizes Sweden's 1970s 'free love' movement by showing how liberation looked for the unglamorous and unskilled.
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