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directed
by Lukas Moodysson
Sweden 1998
"Well,
quite an impacting film about coming of age, conformity, growing pains and small
town existence all rolled into one cross between an ABC after-school Special and
the Dardenne brothers masterpiece "Rosetta". In the cinema vérité
style Swedish director Moodysson brought us so close to its characters, not by
rising above their cock-eyed undetermined value system, but instead by accepting
us into it. Despite the over-whelming chattering-class appeal this
film has with a lesbian romance and risqué original title (Fucking
Åmål), sometimes a film just 'works'. It adheres to no visible formula
of cinema production, but strays enough to evoke a feeling of artistic freedom.
Essentially the entire message of the film. The characters are certainly not
pleasant, not at this stage of their lives anyway. They are confused and
experimental... all in an attempt to conform without appearing as conformists.
The moral of the story, which sneaks up on you quite unexpectedly, is to defy
pretension and rejoice in your own persona. Truly a universal concept that we
all require reminding of. I found this a very worthy viewing and strongly
recommend it!" out
of
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Theatrical Release: October 28th, 1998 - Sweden
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Runtime | 1:25:39 | 1:25:59 |
Video |
1.85:1.00
Letterboxed WideScreen |
1.85:1
Original Aspect Ratio |
Audio | Swedish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround) |
Swedish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround) |
Subtitles | English (non-removable) | Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and none |
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Release Information: Studio: Strand Releasing Home Video Aspect Ratio: • 5 Trailers from other Strand Releases ('Steam: the Turkish Bath', 'Psycho Beach Party', 'Late Bloomers', 'Planetout.com' , 'Edge of Seventeen' )
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Release Information: Studio: Sandrews Aspect Ratio: Edition Details:
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DIRECTORS COMMENTARY (In Swedish) subs in
SWDISH, NORWEGIAN, FINNISH
• CAST& CREW (in S,N and F)
Elin
Agnes
Johan
Jessica
Markus
and
Luukas Moodysson
• TRAILER (1:18)
• Fakta (1 page)
The DVD is NOT ANAMORPHIC, even that the
cover tells so. DVD
Release Date: December 29th, 1999 Chapters 12 |
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I screened some parts of the film with my Sony 16:9 projector. The DVD print looks exactly the same as the film print. I watched it in a cinema with 184,8 m2 (8,8 x 21 meter) screen. It looked like a "home" movie on that screen. Maybe Moodysson wanted the film to look like a documentary, or the budget was so small. I don't know. This comparison is quite important, because many of the R1 owners may think that the DVD is very poor quality. The commentary track is very modest, with much silent parts. I don't find much differences in the two versions. In the new screen-cap (exact match) , the blond girls hair has more details in the R2 version, but otherwise they are the same. DRAW. If the R1 is converted from PAL to NTSC, then of course the R2 is the preferable. The CAST & CREW pages are text ones, In three different language. |
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