Harry works as a hairdresser in a mental hospital. He likes to play bingo and is married to Anna. One day he meets the cleaning lady Sonja.
Acting
Skarsgård's restrained longing in fluorescent lighting.
Direction
Runge finds beauty in institutional linoleum.
Writing
Dialogue so dry it needs a glass of water.
Director
Björn Runge
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is peak 1990s Swedish 'samtidsfilm' — contemporary working-class stories told without sentimentality, when the country was supposedly utopian but individuals felt stuck.
Skarsgård and Seldahl were married in real life until her death in 2001; their actual chemistry makes every loaded glance unbearably authentic.
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