Eva is beautiful, irresponsible, self-absorbed and emotionally disconnected. Her life is all about the right clothes, the right people and the right places. Her life is turned upside down when she loses her job and alienates her friends by cheating on her boyfriend. She soon finds herself among "common" people where she makes a surprising new acquaintance.
Acting
Meadows makes Eva painfully watchable despite zero redeeming qualities
Direction
Kling's deadpan Swedish miserabilism with surprising warmth
Costume
Eva's wardrobe as character development—every heel tells a story
Director
Johan Kling
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kling deliberately cast non-actors from actual working-class Stockholm neighborhoods, blurring documentary and fiction.
Released during Sweden's 'new wave' of social realist cinema examining wealth inequality post-welfare state dismantlement.
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