Film critic: "Are too many premieres to be squeezed in"

Despite the fact that the corona has left its mark

on the industry, most things were as usual when the Swedish Film Institute had an appeal for the coming Swedish film autumn.

Retiring CEO Anna Serner (who has been in power as long as Stefan Löfven) patted herself and the industry on the shoulder for good gender equality work, and Film and TV producers' boss Eva Hamilton demanded as usual production incentive (to attract foreign productions to Sweden and Swedish ditto to stay), something politicians usually refuse to introduce.

We also recognize the

in the repertoire.

As many as 26 pieces will be squeezed between crayfish and Christmas ham.

There are too many.

We do not have an audience for everyone.

The undersigned has visited a number of (probably all) spring and autumn collections and is always equally pleased with the filmmakers' expectations, who suffer in the certainty that most of the titles will pass relatively unnoticed in cinemas.

The autumn term, as often otherwise, offers a whole lot of socially conscious films on the theme of racism, exclusion, identity politics, climate crisis and mental illness.

Which, of course, is a good thing, but when you bundle all 26 movies in this way, you get an overwhelming feeling that the darkness is near.

Remakes and new recordings

stand as usual as movie sticks in the hill.

Maybe extra much so now: Vinterviken, Karl Bertil Jonsson, Eva & Adam and Utvandrarna will appear in a new costume, and Bamse will continue to fight in the sign of kindness.

But okay, these are tough times and then the film producers are happy to invest in secure audience cards.

But you do not want to be Krösa-Maja, there are still a lot of attractive titles, which stand out from the crowd.

One such can be Manuel Concha's Suedi

, which based on the trailer seems to be an entertaining thing that addresses themes such as class and cultural clashes, but with a nice twist.

Looks like it could be this year's Must Give.

It is also packed with stars, with names like Suzanne Reuter, Ann Petrén, Johan Ulveson and more.

We are also not spoiled with costume films of an epic nature, but for Christmas comes the above-mentioned Emigrants.

It has taken a few years to put together this dramatization of Vilhelm Moberg's classic, but now this Swedish portal work is supposed to be ready - directed by a Norwegian, Erik Poppe.

The trailer for Frida Kempff's feature film debut in the fiction class Knackningar, also promises well: A psycho-thriller with an underlying feminist cape, which has already been a success at the international festival circus.

And of course Pleasure, the porn movie drama by Ninja Thyberg, which we talked about before.

It should have gone up this spring but is now scheduled to premiere later this fall.

Unless the corona wants otherwise.