Movies about children fending for themselves are predicated on pushing prepubescent despair into viewers' faces, which only makes this Swedish film's graceful mixture of terror and transcendental girl power that much more impressive.
The Girl(Flickan)
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Sweden · 2009
1h 35m
Director Fredrik Edfeldt
Starring Blanca Engström, Shanti Roney, Annika Hallin, Leif Andrée
Genre Drama, Family
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Story of a ten-year-old girl left alone in her house in the summer of 1981.
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Gorgeously framed by cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, the Turner-esque beauty of the landscape at harvest time only adds to the creepiness as the Girl makes do, makes friends, and then unravels in the most creative ways.
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
The result is a kind of quiet Scandinavian cousin (OK, twice removed) to "Home Alone," in which patient viewers will find sporadic rewards.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
As tadpoles morph into frogs, and fears are conquered, The Girl delivers a satisfying, sun-dappled fable about the kindness of strangers and the cruelty of peers.
One of the most beautiful per formances I've seen this year is given by Blanca Engstrom in the Swedish coming-of-age charmer The Girl.
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