Leo (2007)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Leo |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Josef Fares |
| script | Josef Fares |
| production | Anna Anthony |
| music | Jon Ekstrand |
| camera | Aril Wretblad |
| cut | Josef Fares |
| occupation | |
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Leo is a Swedish low-budget - Crime - Drama from 2007 by Josef Fares .
action
After the exuberant celebration of his 30th birthday, Leo walks along the streets with his dearly beloved girlfriend and has to briefly enter a restaurant to go to the toilet. Meanwhile, Amanda waits outside and is approached, courted and turned on by Gago, who is accompanied by his friend Payo. Since she rejects him, however, he becomes more and more aggressive towards her and asks her to obey him, because he always gets what he wants. But she still doesn't want to and is happy that Leo is outside again. And of course he is overwhelmed by the situation because he does not know what is going on. And before he knows it, Gago beats him up and holds a gun in his face to suck on. But Gago grows more and more into his anger and aggression, which is why he shoots Amanda and Leo. While Leo only has to walk with crutches for a while, Amanda dies of internal bleeding in the hospital after several hits in the stomach.
Of course Leo is deeply affected and blames himself for the situation, while his two friends Shahab and Josef feel absolutely helpless to help him through this difficult time. And repeatedly plagued by his fond memories of Amanda, Leo slowly loses control of his life, which is why he not only skips the therapy sessions and loses his job, but also increasingly turns from grief into hatred of Gago. His only wish is revenge and he fantasizes together how he tortures, slaughters and kills Gago. So he asks his friends for help in putting his revenge into practice. Shahab quickly gives him the right information about where Gago and Payo are and gets him a gun. Josef is difficult to convince to participate and in the end he has to be hospitalized with severe stab wounds after the attack on Payo, where he then dies.
Shahab and Leo then flee the hospital from the police and mourn the death of Josef in their hiding place. And while Shahab cannot think clearly, Leo sets out to finally kill Gago. He drives to a new building block and storms wildly shooting around the apartment where Gago is playing cards with his friends. Leo manages to kill some men, but he is overwhelmed by Gago and stabbed in the neck with a knife. The men disappear and he bleeds to death on the floor.
criticism
And although the viewer apparently “has no real understanding of the underlying, deeper psychological barriers” and can develop revenge, Annika Gustafsson from the Swedish morning newspaper Sydsvenskan found Fares’s contribution to the discussion of violence and state security good, because Fares tries to weigh up individual positions. And thanks to a "very flexible and variable camera and sparse, almost sacred, music" the drama is well staged. However, she could not really classify the film, because the value of the film was "open, but always present."
Although the film does not offer an explanation for senseless violence, Jeanette Gentele said in the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet , it is ideal for starting a discussion about it, because the “revenge odyssey [...] is a warning against rampant violence”.
After Jalla! Yeah! Whoever comes too late ... , Kops and Zozo is Leo an unusual film for Josef Fares, said Bernt Eklund in Swedish tabloid Expressen , because the film was "tough and ruthless". In particular, the "direct and blunt [...] violent beginning is unpleasantly convincing" and would illustrate a violence that one can only "read about every day" without understanding it.
In the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet , Jens Petersen only came to the conclusion that “revenge doesn't solve problems” and that the film leaves “more questions than answers”.
background
- The idea for the film arose during a discussion at a birthday party within a discussion between Josef Fares and his friends. In particular, it was about the image of the man, loyalty to friends and the fascination with violence, although “it is not cool”.
- Josef Fares involved his two friends Leonard and Shahab in the scriptwriting process from the start. From the beginning there was the idea of a film that is as realistic as possible, which is why all the protagonists also use their real names.
- At the same time as the Swedish theatrical release in 200 cinemas, 16-year-old Riccardo also died in Stockholm as a result of senseless violence.
Awards
- Three nominations for the Swedish Guldbagge Film Award for Leonard Terfelt for Best Actor , Best Director and Best Film
publication
Leo had its world premiere on November 15, 2007 at the Stockholm International Film Festival before it opened in Swedish cinemas on November 30, 2007. Even before it was released in theaters in Hungary and Estonia , it was shown in Germany on February 9, 2008 at the Berlinale .
Web links
- Leo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Leo in Svensk Filmdatabas
- Swedish review mirror on kritiker.se
- Swedish interview with Josef Fares about Leo
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annika Gustafsson: Leo ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on sydsvenskan.se November 29, 2007 (Swedish), accessed September 25, 2011
- ↑ Jeanette Gentele: Med gatuvåldet i siktet on svd.se of November 29, 2007 (Swedish), accessed on September 25, 2011
- ↑ Bernt Eklund: Leo ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on expressen.se of November 29, 2007 (Swedish), accessed on September 25, 2011
- ↑ Jens Petersen: Blod, hämnd och tårar on aftonbladet.se of November 30, 2007 (Swedish), accessed on September 25, 2011
- ↑ Rasmus Malm: Josef Fares, Om våldet i filmen ”Leo” ( memento of the original from January 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on frihet.se January 22, 2008 (Swedish), accessed September 25, 2011
- ↑ Charlotte West: Josef Fares in timely take on violence on thelocal.se of November 30, 2007 (English), accessed on September 25, 2011
- ↑ Jan-Olov Andersson: Den är rätt våldsam on aftonbladet.se of October 9, 2007 (Swedish), accessed on September 25, 2011
