I can’t remember exactly how we discovered this one. Certainly under-promoted, and seemingly up against some distribution obstacles, A Swedish Love Story was made in 1970 and saw limited release outside of Sweden in 2007-2008. The trailer emphasizes the sweetness and beauty of young love, and indeed that is the film’s central theme, but the two adolescent principals are hysterically surrounded by adult dysfunction and what is coming to be known here at MovieNight as Swedish eccentricity. The movie was knee-slappingly funny between moments of tenderness and teen angst… so much so that I thought of making a new trailer and showing it again the following week… not making our own trailer in the first place was fuck-up number one. Sorry number one.

Fuck-up number two was just another in our current spate of technical glitches. I guess it was a just bit of schmutz on the disc. Fortunately, I had another copy, and after a comical moment of audience speculation over which chapter to go to (“Four!”, “No, I’m sure it’s five!”) we were back in business. Quite embarrassing… I hate interrupting a feature! Sorry number two. 🙁

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