Masjävlar

Hip city-girl Mia drives home to a remote village in the wintry region of Dalarna for her father's 70th birthday. The visit starts with a hangover and goes on to cover every kind of joy and pain, as Mia renegotiates her views on her background. The plot revolves around Mia's distant relationship to her sisters, the controlling and selfish Eivor, and the recently divorced Gunilla.
As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that all three women are at crossroads in their lives. Their ailing parents need support, there is a plot of land by a lake calling for a house to be built on it, and although each sister has very
different ideas about motherhood, all these views desperately need to be reconsidered.
First time filmmaker Maria Blom picked relatively unknown theatre actresses to play the sisters and got sensational performances out of all of them. Ann Petren has become a household name upon winning Best Actress at the Swedish Guldbagge Awards for last year's Daybreak. In Masjavlar, she brings an endearing whimsicality to the unselfish Gunilla. Kajsa Ernst, whose embittered Eivor never strays on the side of parody, deserves a breakthrough of the same magnitude.

JOHANNA KOLJONEN

Premiärstatus
Världspremiär: Medverkande
Sofia Helin, Ann Petrén, Kajsa Ernst: Producent
Lars Jönsson: Manus
Maria Blom: Foto
Peter Mokrosinski: Musik
Anders Nygård: Talat språk
Swedish