Posts Tagged ‘Tomas Alfredson’
Author: James
With a whimper…
‘Not with a bang, but a whimper’ – that was how poet and playwright T.S. Eliot once declared that the world would end, and there is no doubt that the most powerful cinematic evocations of Armageddon have made this concept their central tenet.
As with Michael Haneke’s Le temps du loup (The Time of the Wolf) (2003), John Hillcoat’s The Road (2009) thrusts us into the world that exists after a nameless, cataclysmic event – animal and plant life has been decimated, leaving the survivors who choose to carry on living to forage for whatever food can be found.
Author: James
‘I’ve been twelve for a very long time’
‘Will you be my girlfriend?’
‘Oskar, I’m not a girl.’
Vampires – they just won’t stay dead, will they? Please forgive the clumsy segue, and allow me to tell you why Tomas Alfredson’s Låt den rätte komma in (Let The Right One In) (2008) (which lifted the Golden Raven at this year’s BIFFF) is perhaps the finest film ever made about the undead.
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