Next wednesday, October 14th, we’ll screen "Mitt liv som hund" also known as "My live as a dog". It is a 100 minutes swedish drama directed by Lasse Hallström and we´ll show it with english subtitles.
Storyline:
"My Life as a Dog" tells the involving story of a precocious boy, Ingemar who gets into trouble, entertains his mother with his antics and plays with his dog, Sickan. As his mother becomes increasingly sick with a terminal illness (almost certainly tuberculosis), he is sent to live with relations for the summer in a small rural community. After an eventful vacation, he returns to his mother but she soon dies. He stays with family friends who, unable to cope with him or his behavior, send him back to his relations, where he is again welcomed, but somewhat less enthusiastically.
Read some commentary about the movie:
"Based on the novel by Reidar Jonsson (who also had a hand in the screenplay), this film’s charm and good-natured comedy provide a veneer of sweetness to what would otherwise be a bleak story about a boy whose mother dies, whose dog is taken away from him and euthanized, and who is shunted from place to place.
What children know and understand about death, particularly the death of a parent, is a complicated and painful question, which this film bravely resists trying to answer definitively. As such, it becomes a remarkable film about a child’s perceptions of death and loss. Ingemar expresses his intense isolation through the stories he narrates when he is by himself, which, he says, give him "perspective."
Welcome everybody!