Reviews of soccer movies and football films
Soccer movie or football film directed or produced by Swedish people or company, or of Swedish descent, or about football in Sweden
A light-hearted pleasant comedy Britt-Marie was Here (Britt-Marie var här) is the tale of a 63 year old homemaker who has dedicated her life to being dutiful — cleaning, tidying, and completing to do lists that keep her house ultra organized. To her, baking soda solves all problems. The one problem it can’t solve is when she comes face-to-face with her stricken husband’s mistress at the side of his hospital bed.
Continue reading “Like baking soda, ‘Britt-Marie was Here’ (2019) solves problems”
I don’t normally review biographical documentaries, because they tend to be marketing vehicles more than, well, documentaries. Becoming Zlatan (Den unge Zlatan) is an exception and worth your time if you are a fan of Zlatan Ibrahimović.
Continue reading “‘Becoming Zlatan’ (2015)? Always Zlatan”
Rättskiparen is a short Swedish documentary about Martin Hansson, a former firefighter, divorced with 2 sons, who puts football before everything else in hopes of refereeing at WC 2010.
Continue reading “Tough life of an ambitious referee in ‘Rättskiparen’ (2010)”