#NordicFINDS23 – Wrap-up

 

1. Nordic Finds Challenge  hosted by @AnnaBookBel
2. Hashtag: #NordicFINDS23

 

My reading list:

1. Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson – J. Stocklassa  Sweden (NF)  – REVIEW
2. A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast – Dorthe Nors – Denmark  (NF) – REVIEW
3. The Rabbit Factor – Antti Tuomainen – Finland  (Dark crime, comedy)  – REVIEW
4. Resin – Ane Riel – Denmark   (coming of age) – REVIEW
5. Beartown –  F. Backman  – Sweden  (novel) – REVIEW

 

Film list:  Sweden

Fanny and Alexander: No 8 best arthouse film of all time –  Winner of 4 Oscars !

Academy Awards, USA 1984

 

Notes:

1. If you like the novels by Dickens you’ll love this epic film (3 hr).
2. Be ready to dive into t he powerful and eventful lives of just one familiy.
3. The small and big affairs that affect them.
4. It is not a “merry” Christmas movie to watch… life is difficut
5. …but Bergman still manages to give us a happy ending!
6. The story takes place during a span of two years from 1907 to 1909.
7. Alexander is supposed to be 10 years old.
8. Bergman (director) was influenced by the novel David Copperfield…
9. …especially by Mr Murdstone David’s wicked step father
10. who married David’s mother when he was away.
11. He is a cruel and sadistic bully regularly beats David for no reason
12. …just as Bishop  at all and he controls the family.
13. This is exactly what happens to Alexander’s mother Emile
14. …when she agrees to marry the harsh
15. Bishop Vergérus….what a classic Dickensian villain!

Winner Oscar	Best Cinematography Sven Nykvist
	Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Anna Asp Susanne Lingheim
	Best Costume Design Marik Vos-Lundh
	Best Foreign Language Film Sweden.
Nominee Oscar	Best Director Ingmar Bergman
	Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Ingmar Bergman

 

Film list:  Sweden

My Life as a Dog (1985)

Academy Awards, USA 1988

 

1. Don’t get me started on this movie…
2. I love the “coming of age” theme as this young
3. boy is sent to live with his uncle for the summer while
4. his mother regains health after a serious illness.
5. The boy creates a unique, funny and loving bond with his grandfather
6. …so funny. Of course the boy develops a crush on a young
7. woman, an artist, in the village.
8. Love it….have watched it several times.

 

Nominee Oscar	Best Director Lasse Hallström
	Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Lasse Hallström Reidar Jönsson Brasse Brännström Per Berglund

 

 

 

Film list:  Denmark

Academy Awards, USA 1988

Winner Oscar

Best Foreign Language Film Denmark

 

1. Absolute favourite  of mine…I must have watched it 30 x…really!
2. Every December when I get the urge to do some serious cooking
3. I pop this DVD into the laptop and enjoy!
4. Babette’s Feast as the 1987 Danish film.
5. A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings
6. quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite French festive meal
7. to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.
8. Touching story…that I never get tired of…based on a book by K. Blixen
9. You will find Babette’s Feast in Anecdotes of Destiny …her last collection of stories.

 

BAFTA Awards 1989

Winner BAFTA Film Award	Best Film not in the English Language Just Betzer Bo Christensen Gabriel Axel Denmark.
Nominee BAFTA Film Award	Best Actress Stéphane Audran
	Best Screenplay – Adapted Gabriel Axel
	Best Cinematography Henning Kristiansen
	Best Direction Gabriel Axel
	Best Film Just Betzer Bo Christensen