 |
||
|
|
|
 |
||
 |
|||
|
|
|
August 2025 July 2025 June 2025 May 2025 |
|
|
|||
Man Called Ove, A [Played May 19 part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on Tubi, Amazon Prime Video, and various VOD platforms.] Terrific acting dominates Hannes Holm's engaging, Oscar-nominated, award-winning, nonlinear, well-written, bittersweet, poignant, moving, humorous, 116-minute, 2015 film based on Fredik Backman's 2012 novel and reminiscent of Gran Torino in which cantankerous, controlling, rules-enforcing, widowed, 59-year-old Swedish train maintenance worker (Rolf Lassgård), who was fired from his job after 43 years, contemplates suicide after the death of his beloved schoolteacher wife (Ida Engvoll), reminiscences about growing up as a child (Viktor Baagøe/Filip Berg) with his stoic widowed father (Stefan Gödicke) and life that he had with his wife, and finally gets out of doldrums and finds meaning to his changed life when new neighbors (Bahar Pars and Tobias Almborg) with two young daughters move in across the street, he adopts a feline, and helps a longtime, stroke-surviving friend (Chatarina Larsson) and his wife (Börje Lundberg).
|
|
||||||||||||||||
 |
View
Man Called Ove, A on the Internet Movie Database
|