Eve and Adam - four birthdays and a fiasco

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Movie
German title Eve and Adam - four birthdays and a fiasco
Original title Eva & Adam fyra födelsedagar och ett fiasko
Country of production Sweden
original language Swedish
Publishing year 2001
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Catti Edfeldt
script Måns Gahrton
Johan Unenge
production Kerstin Bonnier
camera Jan Rydqvist
cut Christer Furubrand
occupation

The children's film Eva and Adam - Four Birthdays and a Fiasco is a Swedish love story by director Catti Edfeldt from 2001. The film is a continuation of the series Eva and Adam .

action

introduction

Eva will soon be celebrating her fourteenth birthday . She has been with Adam for almost three years. However, it bothers her that her classmates joke about her about it. At her birthday party, more and more doubts arise as to whether their relationship will continue. Shortly after her birthday, she breaks up with Adam.

Bulk

During rehearsals for a concert , Eva meets Petra, the stepsister of her best friend Annika. Eva discusses the separation from Adam with Annika. Annika has just got a new boyfriend, and Eva soon feels excluded from activities that couples do.

Annika's mother's birthday party is coming up. The children help out there as waiters. There Eve meets Adam again. It's not easy for them to do something together after the breakup.

The third birthday party follows shortly thereafter; this time it's Eva's little brother's birthday. Since Adam had promised him to come to the party before the breakup, he keeps his word. Petra is also on this children's birthday party. At the party, Adam and Petra get closer and eventually become lovers.

The music performance premieres the next day. In this, Eva and Petra have several singing duets. While another musical number is playing on the stage, the two girls are discussing. There is an argument between the two. The girls wear radio microphones during this conversation. Since Eva's older brother accidentally opened her microphones, the audience overheard this conversation. And Adam was in the audience too. So he gets the insults that Eva said about him in the argument.

Due to this embarrassing situation, Eva no longer dares to go to school and skips class. Later Eva tries to apologize to Adam by phone, but Adam hangs up. When Eva goes back to school, they avoid each other.

Finally, the fourth birthday follows; this time from Petra. At this party, Adam and Eve meet again and they start talking again. Finally there is a discussion between Petra and Adam. Petra has already noticed that Adam is still in love with Eve.

Enough

In the evening in front of a mailbox, Eva and Adam finally meet again by chance and the two finally reconciled. And so Eve and Adam are lovers again.

background

Originally, Eve and Adam was a comic series. This then developed into a series of novels, until the television series Eva and Adam was finally produced. Due to the great success of the series, another season was created, and finally the movie.

The title of the film alludes to the British film Four Weddings and a Funeral . The plot unfolds during four birthday parties, and the dramatic climax follows during the musical performance.

Reviews

“Eva & Adam is a film about relationships. (...) Sometimes it turns into an annoying study about mini-adults, and that is based, among other things, on a number of dialogues that are impossible to bring about. Do the self-experiment and imagine, as a fourteen-year-old, being asked to say: “My feelings have completely cooled off”. (...) Eva & Adam is a film that is well-intentioned, but which would have needed a stronger story in order to be perceived as engaged. "
Karin Magnusson, in:" Nöjesguiden ", No. 2, February 2001, p. 19th

“Rock, pop, hip-hop and rap music, as an expression of an attitude towards life, played a major role in the latest Nordic films. She is the lynchpin in the love story between the teenagers in Eve and Adam. Music is part of the film fable and it brings momentum out of the “off”: The Swedish export hit “Shebang” delivers exactly the line that goes with the film with the refrain “Hey Romeo, where is your Juliet now?”. "
Dorothea Kurz-Kohnert, Lübecker Nachrichten, November 6, 2001

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