Faro is about a man who flees into the forest with his daughter to escape a prison sentence.
Acting
Clara Christiansson Drake's feral, wordless performance steals everything.
Cinematography
Forest as prison and cathedral simultaneously.
Director
Fredrik Edfeldt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fredrik Edfeldt shot chronologically in actual wilderness so the actors' physical deterioration would be real.
Released when Sweden was debating stricter sentencing laws; the film refuses easy political alignment, which annoyed literally everyone.
FI
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