This incredible and stellar Swedish drama, by one of the land's better directors, is definitely deserving of all the praise and awards it has gotten - including the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film.

The writing is very sharp, and in line with the director's provice and capabilities as a filmmaker. The stellar script is accompined by the actors, who all do an incredible job, some of the best in their impressive careers for sure. Very much a standout in everyone's filmography.

The cinematography, cutting and editing is great, and feels very authentic of the director's style, and of the swedish film overall.

Truly an incredible romantic drama that is definitely recommended for any lover of film, and one of the better Swedish pictures!

Found this in Netflix when looking for Swedish language content and decided to give it a go.

I'm a fan of modern day Swedish tv and film and I'm not surprised that this being from almost 60 years ago makes it a very different watch. It still has the pacing of today's Scandi dramas ... ie not a lot happens very quickly at all ... but the problem with this for me is that not a lot happens at all really. A boat guy meets a single mum waitress and decides that he must have her. He woos her and her kid over the course of a couple of days (if that) and they're lobsters. That's about it.

There's an awful lot of navel-gazing chat between the two main characters - but they're all played very well ... even the little kid ... and it's cool to get a glimpse of Sweden in the 60s. Him whisking them off to Denmark for a trip to the zoo is quite heart-warming.

Good ending in the sense that they seem to admit their feelings for each other and make some kind of commitment ... so that was nice.

39/100.