A tomato farmer, a locked basement, and a guitar — Swedish chaos ensues.
Glenn Nygård, a 40 year old tomato-planter has for the past five years been falling in love with the local bar-keeper Laila. His harsh father has raised Glenn locked-up in the basement of his house. There Glenn has learned to master the guitar but not how to handle women. When Glenn´s father dies abruptly, he finds a stack of letters which where assigned by his mother. The mother might still live somewhere in Sweden. Glenn locks the house down and leaves...
Acting
Niklas Häggblom's physically contained, heartbreaking stillness.
Writing
Deadpan dialogue hiding volcanic emotional repression.
Score
Guitar flourishes that speak where Glenn cannot.
Director
Tapio Piirainen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Tapio Piirainen primarily worked in Finnish television; this rare Swedish-language project was shot in just 12 days on a shoestring budget.
The film satirizes the 'lone male genius' trope common in Nordic cinema, subverting it through Glenn's profound incompetence at everything except tomatoes and chords.
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