Together!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Together! |
| Original title | Tillsammans! |
| Country of production | Sweden , Denmark , Italy |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lukas Moodysson |
| script | Lukas Moodysson |
| production | Lars Jonsson |
| music |
ABBA Ted Gärdestad |
| camera | Ulf Brantås |
| cut |
Fredrik Abrahamsen , Michal Leszczylowski |
| occupation | |
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Together! (Original title: Tillsammans! ) Is a Swedish - Danish - Italian feature film from the year 2000 . The comedy is the second work by director Lukas Moodysson , who achieved a surprise success in 1998 with Raus aus Åmål .
action
Stockholm in the 1970s : The housewife and mother Elisabeth leaves her husband Rolf after he repeatedly beat her under the influence of alcohol and moves in with her brother Göran with her children Eva and Stefan. He lives with his girlfriend Lena in the commune together! . Various dropouts and dissenters have come together in an idyllic wooden house in a Stockholm suburb.
Göran is formally head of the commune, but far too good-natured and altruistic to make himself heard. He has an open relationship with his girlfriend Lena, who feels much better understood by the communist revolutionary Erik, and she raves about the orgasm Erik was able to give her. Anna and Lasse, however, have already separated, but still live in the commune with their son Tet . While Anna now considers herself a lesbian , Lasse tries to escape the advances of her gay roommate Klas. The flat share is completed by the ecos Signe and Sigvard and their son Måne.
Elisabeth moves into this dysfunctional flat share and confuses everything with her open manner. Her son Stefan can secure new privileges for the younger roommates Tet and Måne. The extremely quiet 13-year-old Eva is initially overwhelmed by the flat share, but becomes friends with the equally shy 14-year-old boy next door, Fredrik, with whom she shares an extreme farsightedness. In the meantime, Rolf tries to win back the affection of Elisabeth and his children.
After meat has found its way back into the menu of the flat share and a used television has been purchased, Signe and Sigvard move out to try their luck with the Mother Earth collective . Erik finds all of his roommates completely apolitical and goes underground after he realizes that Lena is only interested in him physically. The rest of the flat share residents get along more and more, Anna and Lasse finally reconcile, even if Anna constantly fails to interest Elisabeth in herself, while Lasse lets Klas persuade her to do a blow job and finally meets him .
With the help of older Birger, who also lives alone, Rolf finally manages to change. Nevertheless, he continues to meet with rejection from Elisabeth. After Elisabeth's lecture, Göran opens his eyes and unceremoniously puts Lena in front of the door. During the course of Christmas Eve, Elisabeth lets herself be softened by Rolf, so that everyone can happily play football in the snow on Christmas morning . And Anna has found a new potential partner in Fredrik's honest mother, who has also left her husband, who is no longer interested in her.
reception
Like the previous film, it also crashed! to overall positive reviews. In the Chicago Sun-Times , Roger Ebert admired the quiet humor and satirical review of the 1970s, as well as the message that in the end all people, however eccentric they may be, long for a little more normalcy. Even Peter Travers wrote in Rolling Stone that this is a human and serene film that Lukas Moodysson continue performing as a notable talent. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film currently has a rating of 90 percent positive reviews.
Relation to other films of the director
The film has many parallels with its predecessor Raus aus Åmål . So this plays in Sweden today, i. H. At the end of the 1990s , however, the relationship life of different people, in this case mainly teenagers , is viewed with humor and nevertheless empathy. The aspect of homosexuality is addressed in both films, even if it is more in the foreground in Raus aus Åmål . But the characters Anna and Lasse also have to go together! find out that it is not always a matter of will which gender you really attract and find yourself attractive. Other similarities between the two films are the somewhat satirical portrayals of different social classes and views of life, without one being given priority. Are these together! the community residents with their different views, who encounter the bourgeois neighbors and the real proletarian Rolf, in Raus aus Åmål it is more the two very different families and backgrounds that Agnes and Elin grow up with. Finally, one can perhaps draw another parallel: Agnes' parents in Raus aus Åmål could be the continuation of the residents of Together! - counted back at a similar age and sometimes with similar, ostensibly liberal, but then also considered views.
The subsequent film Lilja 4-ever , however, represents a break with Moodysson's two first films. This one too is a look at reality; the portrayal of Lilya's fate, who after many strokes of fate in the former Soviet Union ends up as a prostitute in Sweden, makes this film much more negative and darker. The image of Sweden that Moodysson offers here is fraught with problems, but ultimately cannot be compared with the positive images from the two predecessors.
The lonely Birger (played by Sten Ljunggren) is the focus of the 1997 short film Moodyssons Bara prata lite .
Web links
- Together! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/together-2001
- ^ Together (review). Rolling Stone , archived from the original ; accessed on November 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Together! at Rotten Tomatoes (English)