Two adolescents meet and cautiously fall in love in beautiful surrounds during the peak of an idyllic Swedish summer.

Oblivious to social boundaries, they innocently create their own milieu in contrast to the distorted relationships, disillusionment, and world-weariness of adult life around them.
Andersson’s feature debut is a sunny, optimistic work that has drawn comparison to the early films of Ingmar Bergman.

It's love at first sight when Par (Rolf Sohlman, CITY OF MY DREAMS) meets Annika (Ann-Sofie Kylin)... or something, because these two have never been in love before and the first romantic stirrings of their relationship are sensitively explored by TV commercial director Roy Andersson (YOU THE LIVING) in his feature debut. Despite the English title which emphasizes the "Swedish" origin of the film - as well as the Greek title MIA EROTIKI ISTORIA - Andersson's film is a deceptively simple look at first love against social backgrounds, family problems, and the awkwardness of just being young (but, to be young in Sweden 1970...). Swedish pop singer Anita Lindblom plays Annika's single aunt (whose flat is used by the youngsters for an aborted encounter that is not explicit, although perhaps fleshier than one would expect in a film about characters that age) and Tommy Nilsson (who plays Annika's brother) also became a rock star in Sweden.

Eric Cotenas