- Film Review
- Reviewed By David Parkinson
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3 out of 5
Life on a commune in the mid-1970s may seem like a soft target but, as he demonstrated with Show Me Love, Swedish director Lukas Moodysson isn't interested in the obvious. There's plenty of laissez-faire liberalism in the attitudes of the chunky sweatered leader and his kaftan-wearing acolytes. Yet, amid all the dope-smoking and free-loving permissiveness, there's a real sense of sociopolitical conflict as human nature intrudes upon the idyll. Exploring the group's self-satisfied moral rectitude and their blithe disregard for how this alternative lifestyle will impact on their children, Moodysson provides a shrewd and sympathetic insight into an era when apathy wasn't an option.
Plot Summary
A single mother and her children find themselves with nowhere to live and are forced to join a commune, leading to a series of ideological clashes as they struggle to integrate into the close-knit community. Comedy drama, starring Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist, Emma Samuelsson and Sam Kessel. In Swedish.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Elisabeth
- Lisa Lindgren
- Rolf
- Michael Nyqvist
- Göran
- Gustav Hammarsten
- Lena
- Anja Lundqvist
- Anna
- Jessica Liedberg
- Lasse
- Ola Norell
- Klas
- Shanti Roney
- Stefan
- Sam Kessel
- Eva
- Emma Samuelsson
- Sigvard
- Lars Frode
- Signe
- Cecilia Frode
Crew
- Director
- Lukas Moodysson
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