Advantages: Beautiful, touching, sensitive, funny, tragic, sad, charming.... Disadvantages: None
...strength to carry on.
My Opinion
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It is sobering to think that Lasse Hallström started his career directing Abba videos before he went on to his more well known successes in American cinema. However even though his American films have received great acclaim “My Life as a Dog” remains, as Hallström admits in the interview on this DVD, his most resonant work.
There have been many films about childhood and coming of age but to me ... ...I had a smile on my face (or a tear in my eye) most of the way through.
This is in my opinion a truly remarkable film. It is difficult to describe why it is such a gem. It is beautiful, sensitive, funny, tragic, poignant, nostalgic, charming – I could go on... It has wonderfully engaging characters, an off-beat storyline and some really unforgettable scenes. The acting is excellent, particularly that of Anton Glanzelius as Ingemar with his cheeky ...
buzios 11.10.2004
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...a good choice. My Life as a Dog (1987) is a Swedish movie written and directed by Lasse Hallstrom, best known for his direction of The Cider House Rules, Chocolat and The Shipping News. The Plot: Set in 1950s Sweden, My Life as a Dog tells the story of Ingemar, a twelve year old boy. His mother is ill, neglectful, unable to cope with life and full of rage. His father, we are told, is somewhere on the Equator loading bananas. We never know if this ... ...Direction: Hallstrom directs My Life as a Dog brilliantly. The sets are fantastically evocative, and he manages to take us from comedy to tragedy to bathos a hundred times over without ever making the film seem contrived or descending into schmaltz. If only he had kept such a tight rein on The Shipping News, that particular film would have been a hundred times better. Overall: My Life as a Dog is a faultless rites of passage movie from which Hollywood ...
sandrabarber 09.01.2003
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