The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together.
Acting
Nyqvist's wrecked stillness — a masterclass in not performing grief.
Direction
Brisinger lets silence do the screaming.
Director
Johan Brisinger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Swedish cinema has a whole genre of 'pappa och pojke' films about fathers and sons failing each other beautifully — this is a quiet entry in that tradition.
Michael Nyqvist made this between his international breakthrough in 'Together' and 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' — you can feel him becoming the actor who would break your heart in everything.
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