Henrik Lundström Movies
- 2007
A chance meeting between a spoiled rich girl who has fallen from grace and a recently divorced fifty-something in search of employment sends the lives of both in directions that neither had ever imagined in a dark comedy from director Johan Kling. Eva (Michelle Meadows) is a living the easy life in Stockholm. A silver spoon-fed girl in her twenties who works for no other reason than to fend off boredom, Eva lives in a comfortable flat with her boyfriend Micke (Richard Ulfsater). Abandoned by Micke for sleeping with the handsome Nico (Mikael Lindgren), troubled Eva finds her relationship woes compounded by the announcement that her mother is moving abroad. Now, for the first time in her charmed life, it appears that Eva will have to work out of necessity if she is to earn enough to pay the rent on her modest new flat. Meanwhile, across town, middle-aged Bernard (Michael Segerstrom) pounds the pavement in search of work. When fate brings Eva and Bernard together in a local McDonalds, the young girl's weary but kindly new friend gradually tempers her naïve arrogance. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michelle Meadows, Michael Segerstrom, (more)
Swedish filmmaker Mikael Hafstrom directs the coming-of-age drama Ondskan (Evil), based on the autobiographical novel by Jan Guillou. In the mid-'50s, teenager Erik Ponti (Andreas Wilson) suffers serious abuse at the hands of his father (Johan Rabaeus). He translates the violence at home to school, eventually getting himself expelled for fighting. His mother (Marie Richardson) struggles to come up with the money to send him to a private school, where the senior boys brutally haze the juniors in a ritualistic tradition. Erik makes enemies with senior Otto Silverheim (Gustaf Skarsgård), but, fortunately, finds friendship with Pierre (Henrik Lundstrom) and romance with Marja (Linda Zilliacus). Evil was screened at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundström, (more)
- 2002
Jimmy Karlsson's Sprickorna I muren (A Breach in the Wall) stars Magnus Krepper as a suicidal teacher. Lars (Krepper) finds a reason to live again when one his student Jonny (Sverrir Gudnason) reveals himself to be a math genius. Even after arranging a scholarship to a university, Lars meets resistance from Jonny's father (Anders Palm). Claire (Johanna Lazcano Osterman), Jonny's girlfriend, gets a crush on Jonny, but he is also receiving advances from a colleague. Claire's father is embroiled in local labor issues. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Magnus Krepper, Sverrir Gudnason, (more)
