Killing yourself isn’t easy. Ove, the Swedish curmudgeon, knows. He’s been there. His beloved wife has died, and he’s prepared to follow her. There probably hasn’t been this determined a would-be ...
In the Swedish dark comedy A MAN CALLED OVE, director/scriptwriter Hannes Holm takes us on a roller-coaster trip through the life of old curmudgeon. Ove (Rolf Lassgard) is the kind of guy every ...
Highly active Copenhagen-based sales outfit REinvent has acquired rights to the Danish pic “Rome,” officially selected as the Göteborg Film Festival’s closing movie. The life-affirming romantic drama ...
CURMUDGEON: Rolf Lassgard's performance as "Ove" earned him a Best Actor Award at the 2016 Seattle International Film Festival. I once asked a Swedish friend to recommend some Swedish-language ...
What did it take to transform a youthful actor into a cantankerous old man for the Oscar-nominated Swedish film “A Man Called Ove”? Quite a bit of effort, it turns out, and of the imaginative and ...
Rolf Lassgard plays the title role in “A Man Called Ove.” Anders Nicander “A Man Called Ove” is a crisp, pleasing film adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s best-seller out of Sweden. You’d probably guess ...