Storyline

Goran runs a Stockholm commune in the 1970s. The easygoing Goran does his best to keep the peace between the politically contentious people around him, many of whom are drunk or stoned on a regular basis. When Goran's sister Elisabeth (Lisa Lindgren) flees from her abusive husband, her arrival at the commune significantly changes its dynamics. Elisabeth's two children bring change, agitating for TV and meat and driving away the commune's purists as tensions spread.

Plot Keywords

leader, abusive husband, abused wife, resident, young boy, marxist, uplifting, charming, lighthearted, commune, stockholm, kitchen, political activism, husband/wife relationship, communal living, marriage, family, free love, growing up, love, transformation, 1970s

Short Review

Moodysson excels at this delicate staging of inappropriateness; his true theme begins to cohere out of the sullen stares of children forced to tap undeveloped reserves of patience as the adults test the limits of liberation.

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