Word: elisabethã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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Ultimately, the film is about relationships, their formation and dissolution. The most touching of these is between Eva (Emma Samuelsson), Elisabeth??s 13 year-old daughter, and Frederik (Henrik Lundstrom), the son of the very bourgeois family across the street. They first bond over having exactly the same glasses prescription and grow closer over what they share: both are outcasts, both just want to belong, both believe, as Eva states, that “all adults are stupid.” The film succeeds because it allows them to think that and does not force them to choose...
Without giving too much of the ending away, I can say that Together manages to stay touching, while steering clear of heartwarming predictability; the film condemns no one, not the selfish Lena, not Rolf, Elisabeth??s alcoholic husband; not even Frederick’s supremely bourgeois mother. The film tells a story about real people, stumbling through life, and the movie knows what the characters eventually learn: that one cannot be happy living behind the rigid walls of idealism. It is to the film’s credit that it never tells us how things should...
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