An utterly beguiling oddity from Sweden. The phrase ‘like nothing you’ve seen’ is overused but, here, very apt.
It starts strange, gets stranger, stumbles a couple of times but is, overall, very impressive. It has interesting things to say; is anti-nihilistic and – in the end – is actually really lovely (though there’s some weird and dark shit before the uplifting destination).
It’s a film that you’ll probably find described by comparison (you could easily link it to the oneiric style of Lynch; the psycho-sexual body horror of Cronenberg and the heartfelt gothic fairytales of Del Toro – with a dash of Angela Carter), but to do so is to only give a partial picture. Instead, this is the kind of unique film that viewers will use as a comparison piece in the future (like the artists previously mentioned): linking back to it rather than from it.
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