Stina Ekblad – MRQE

Amorosa

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls “her child”. The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls’ books to serious and self-consuming novelist.

Gossip (2000/II)

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ten actresses test films for the title role of a remake of “Queen Christina”.

Wallander:: Fotografen (TVE)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When an American tourist is found murdered after visiting an internationally renowned photographer, her husband believes she was having an affair. Kurt Wallander decides to investigate.

En dag och en halv

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In a desperate bid to reunite with his daughter, an armed man bursts into the medical center where his estranged wife works and kidnaps her.

Madklubben

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Three longtime girlfriends from elementary school, very different women, have one thing in common: they are in the fall of their lives and they all feel how ruthless old age can be. Marie is abandoned by her husband on Christmas Eve, and her entire identity as part of a happy family crumbles. Berling is the eternal “bachelor” who outwardly denies her age and lives the sweet life, but in the backdrop she is affected by a complicated relationship with her daughter. Vanja lives in the memories of her late husband and has difficulty moving on. The three travel to Italy together to attend a food course in Puglia, where they each have an opportunity to redefine themselves.

The Shamer’s Daughter

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Shamer’s daughter, Dina, has unwillingly inherited her mother’s supernatural ability. She can look straight into the soul of other people. When the sole heir to the throne is wrongfully accused of the horrible murders of his family, it is up to Dina to uncover the truth, but soon she finds herself whirled into a dangerous power struggle with her own life at risk.

Det enda rationella

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Four of Sweden’s top actors anchor Jörgen Bergmark’s tragi-comedy about a couple, both marriage counsellors, who find themselves in deep water when the husband falls for his best friend’s wife. A smart, funny film made for adults. Nominated for Best Film at the 2009 Ghent International Film Festival.

Suxxess

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Swedish IT-company gets a new boss, who turns out to be a soulless hatchet man in Schildt’s dark satire on the evils of the corporate world. He’s opposed by Daniel, one of his employees, and eventually comes crashing down, impaled on his own hubris. So Daniel gets given the poisoned chalice of leadership in his place, just to end up as amoral and platitudinous as the man and values he initially stood up against.

Så vit som en snö

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer’s daughter, in the early 1900s, who dreams of getting away from the farm and becoming an aviatrix.

Magnetisörens femte vinter

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a magnetist – an amalgam of hypnotist and healer – and claiming he can cure diseases un-treatable by doctors. Ignoring the objections of his colleagues, Dr. Selander allows Meisner to cure his blind daughter, Maria, who not only regains her sight, but also falls in love with the charismatic magnetist. Dark secrets and repressed memories start to emerge, amidst the love between father and daughter, man and woman.