A man named Ove (film)

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Movie
German title A man named Ove
Original title En man som heter Ove
Country of production Sweden
original language Swedish
Publishing year 2015
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Hannes Holm
script Hannes Holm
production Annica Bellander ,
Nicklas Wikström Nicastro
music Gaute Storaas
camera Goran Hallberg
cut Fredrik Morheden
occupation

A man named Ove (Original title: En man som heter Ove ) is a Swedish film drama by director Hannes Holm from 2015 based on the novel of the same name by Fredrik Backman from 2012.

action

Ove is a widower. He lives in a housing estate where he makes sure that the numerous prohibitions are observed. When he loses his job for reasons of age, he decides to end his life and to meet his beloved wife Sonja, whose grave he regularly visits, in the afterlife. He is just putting the rope around his neck when the new neighbors who have moved in knocked over his mailbox. He rushes outside and drives the car and trailer into the driveway himself. He cannot sleep at night because the new neighbors Parvaneh and Patrik are celebrating moving in with their friends.

Ove tries to hang himself up a second time. When he passed out, as he did later in similar situations, his childhood and youth went through his head: his mother died early. His father works for the railroad, is taciturn and works on his Saab 92 . Ove has just received his school leaving certificate when his father is run over by a locomotive and dies. One night there was a fire in the neighboring house; Ove saves two residents, but cannot prevent his own house from burning down. He lies homeless in a railroad car and falls asleep there. When he wakes up, his future wife Sonja is sitting across from him and reading. He rides this train every morning for three weeks to meet her again, which he finally manages. They go out to eat together and become a couple. Sonja moves Ove to study. When they got married, they went to Spain with a tour company. The bus falls off the street, Sonja loses her unborn child and from then on sits in a wheelchair . So that she can work as a teacher, Ove builds a ramp to the school door at night . Back in the present, the rope breaks and Ove falls to the ground.

Parvaneh integrates Ove into her family life against his will. Ove teaches her to drive and takes care of her children. Still, Ove tries again to end his life with the exhaust of his car. Parvaneh saves him ignorant because Patrik has fallen off the ladder and Ove is supposed to drive her to the hospital.

He wants to kill himself one more time; this time with a rifle he found in the attic. But the shot missed because the doorbell rings. Two teenagers stand in front of it; one of them is a former student of his wife, the other his work colleague from a kebab shop. The former explains to Ove that his colleague has come out to his family as gay and therefore urgently needs a place to sleep. Ove reluctantly agrees.

Ove gets along with his neighbor Rune, who is almost completely paralyzed . He had fallen out with him because he had "pushed away" as chairman of the owners' association. There was also a rivalry among the car brands the two drove: Volvo and Saab . When this neighbor is to be taken to a nursing home by an official decision, Ove begins to quarrel with the authorities. Finally, he, the neighbors, and the local newspaper can prevent Rune from being forcibly removed. Because of the excitement about it, Ove collapses on the way in the settlement and has to be taken to the hospital. His heart is too big.

One morning - it snowed at night - Parvaneh and Patrik notice that, contrary to his habits, Ove has not cleared the sidewalk in front of his house. They run over and discover that Ove went to his Sonja that night. Ove wrote that only his closest friends should come to his funeral. All the pews in the church are occupied.

reception

Christian Horn from Filmstarts.de thinks that the “quiet tragic comedy” is convincing with good performance and dialogues, but criticizes the “somewhat rough dramaturgy” and the “not exactly subtle direction”. Martin Schwickert from epd Film complains that the “concept of 'hard shell / soft core' is ultimately too clear”. The film gets lost again and again in sticky sentimentality with the “yellow-filtered flashbacks”. Oliver Stenzel writes in the Stuttgarter Zeitung that the director tells the story “with a lot of dry, black humor and a sense of bizarre details”. It is remarkable how the main actor Rolf Lassgård "also brings out the warmer feelings of his character in many small gestures". Ralf Blau from Cinema emphasizes the “dry, laconic humor” that carries over the entire length of the film.

As of March 2016, A Man Called Ove was the third most-viewed film in Swedish cinemas since 1963, with 1.6 million viewers.

Awards

Remake

In September 2017, an American remake was announced with Tom Hanks in the lead role as Ove.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for a man named Ove . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. Jump up ↑ Age rating for a man named Ove . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Review on Filmstarts.de , accessed on April 27, 2016.
  4. ^ Review by epd film , accessed on April 27, 2016.
  5. ↑ A pedant with a big heart Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de, April 8, 2016, accessed on April 27, 2016.
  6. ↑ Review on Cinema.de accessed on April 27, 2016.
  7. ^ SVT Nyheter: ”Ove” tredje mest sedda svenska biofilmen . In: SVT Nyheter . ( svt.se [accessed December 31, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Arthur A .: A man named Ove: Tom Hanks plays the lead role in the remake. In: Filmfutter.com. September 23, 2017. Retrieved September 23, 2017 .