Mona Seilitz Movies
- 1990
In this melodrama, Rita (Lena Carlsson) is a girl about to turn 17, and she is exploring the world around her and, more particularly, her feminine powers over men. It is summer, and she and her wealthy parents are spending the holidays at their seaside resort home. Rita discovers that she has some romantic feelings for her father, but soon tires of that game, and takes up with a van driver after fending off the attentions of a more "suitable" partner. Meanwhile, she and her girlfriend visit a carnival, play tennis, etc. Aside from her parents, her other older relatives are all semi-tragic types, much given to drink, suicide attempts, and shooting birds. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Helge Jordal, Ulf Friberg, (more)
- 1989
Something is strange about Sven's radio set. It is picking up signals in ancient classical Latin. Then the girl next door gets kidnapped by men dressed as medieval soldiers. He rounds up his friend Bo and, having figured out how to use his radio as a time machine, heads into the past in his family's mobile home. They have a lot of fun flummoxing the simple people of the Middle Ages with their modern guile, but eventually it's time to return to the present. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Troels Asmussen
- 1983
When Gary (Goesta Ekman), a somewhat staid and stable architect, and Lasse (Janne Carlsson), a good-time mechanic, end up becoming friends just at the time both of their wives have left town for a week, they each have their idyllic time-off disrupted. Gary wants a bit of introspective relaxation, and Lasse wants some time with his buddies and a few women on the side. Instead, the architect heads into some wild antics (in one scene a bank robber gets the muzzle of his gun stuck in Gary's pocket) that leave him exhausted but happy, and the mechanic ends up giving a lecture on urban planning. Considering that the architect helps Lasse realize how much he appreciates his own home and children, and that Lasse helps him realize that a little fun goes a long way, the week was pretty good after all. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Gösta Ekman, Jr., Janne Carlsson, (more)
- 1976
The stoic endurance of a group of very poor people living in Stockholm in the late 1800s is the focus of this leisurely film. The story focuses on the trials of a tuberculosis-afflicted longshoreman and the dire circumstances confronted by a young girl forced to flee her pitiful home because of parental abuse. Based on a novel by Per Anders Fogelstroem, and narrated by the author, this film clearly depicts the horrific circumstances suffered by the poor of that time. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Eddie Axberg, Mona Seilitz, (more)
- 1968
John Clelland's ribald 18th-century novel Fanny Hill got plenty of attention during the let-it-all-hang-out '60s. Nudie filmmaker Russ Meyer beat everyone to the punch with his notorious soft-core version of Fanny Hill, filmed in Germany in 1965. Around the same time, director Mac Ahlberg was preparing his own FH in Sweden. To avoid confusion, Ahlberg's effort was released in the U.S. as The Swedish Fanny Hill, even though most of the story takes place in Merrie Olde England. Diana Kjaer plays the buxom Ms. Hill, a "woman of pleasure" whose memoirs are long, loud and lusty. Considered hot stuff in the 1960s, Fanny Hill seems almost austere when seen today. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Diana Kjaer, Keve Hjelm, (more)
- 1968
The Hour of the Wolf (original Swedish title: Vargtimmen) is Ingmar Bergman's spin on the demons that plague his fellow creative artists. Max von Sydow plays a painter who, while spending a summer in seclusion with his pregnant wife Liv Ullmann, is visited by bizarre and disturbing visions. Before long, Ullmann is also experiencing her husband's hallucinations; one of these, an old, faceless woman, advises Ullmann to read Von Sydow's diary. Doing so, Ullmann discovers that her husband has been cheating on her with Ingrid Thulin. In the subsequent domestic squabble, Von Sydow shoots and wounds his wife. The artist's punishment for this behavior is to have his lover, now dead, spring back to life and humiliate him in full view of Ullmann. Hour of the Wolf has something to say about the dangers of artists becoming too self-centered and self-involved; one hopes that most artists are not as thoroughly punished (or punishable) as Max Von Sydow. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, (more)
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