The first World War drama 1917 has the chance of ten Oscars statues at the gala on February 6. If the film academy likes it as much as our critic Kristoffer Viita, it will be difficult to bear.
The film about two young British soldiers who have to get behind the enemy line to warn colleagues is simulated to be made in a single shot - with tremendous excitement as a result. Rating 4. Read the full review here.
A hidden lifeAmerican director Terrence Malick, best known for his suggestive war film The Thin Red Line (1998) has made yet another film set during the Second World War: about a German farmer who refuses severe Hitler allegiance. A Hidden Life - writes Fredrik Sahlin, lives up to them - as always with Malick - high pretensions and is like a moral-philosophical Sound of music, without music. Rating 4. Read the full review here.
ThalassoThalasso is a standalone continuation of the Kidnapping by Michel Houellebecq. Here, the French writer thrives on an oceanfront health resort - but finds to his delight the actor Gérard Depardieu, who smuggles both red and cigarettes. A film about two white older men who complain and comment on women's bodies - gravely out of date, writes Fredrik Sahlin, but the old man's eloquent tenderness entertains - as a mixture of Lasse Åberg and Larry David. Rating 3. Read the full review here.