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When someone comes to another country and settles down. Many people can tell you that you can put another perspective on the new country. A perspective that not the people can have who is born in this country. If you meet someone in this position you can sit and have loads of fun talking about your own country with this person. You will never become tired about the things you feel uncomfortable with or the things you love about your own country. You blush like a teenager and feel kind of ashamed about the truth that is put forward to you so brutally. Never can you yourself be so crystal clear about what you feel and know. This has been the case with Colin Nutley, a movie maker from Gosport England. He came to Sweden once and got stuck here. Many of his movies are about small Swedish villages and it's people. And sometimes about Stockholm. He tells us stories about ourselves that we feel embarrassed about. In his movies "House of Angels" he shows off the feeling of how small minded village people are in Sweden. When something new comes to the small place everything is turned upside down. Another movie is called "Blackjack" is about a local popular dance-band (sort of country music that is naive and simple is i way) and what happens when the truth about the drummers many women and how bad the loneliness can be for one of those. One fun scene in this movie is when they burn the Christmas he-goat made of straw in Gävle. This is a real tradition. The recent years he have done two thriller movies about the female newspaper journalist who is in the crime section. She writes about a blast at the time of Olympic games in Sweden (fiction remember) and the aftermath of that. And the other story is about a place were beaten up women can rest and start over. Called Paradise but it turns up to be not quite what the name is telling you it is. Just recently I saw a movie that this man have made called Heartbreak Hotel. It is about two women in their 40ies and about their new life as divorcees. They are going from bar to bar and their favourite club is called Heartbreak Hotel. They try to break free and start new life but their former husbands are trying to still be part of their lives. This movie was particularly fun because one of the stars in this movie is among the most funny women in Sweden. It is almost to see a Swedish version of Thelma and Louise, a friendship between female friends. (As a Swedish journalist said about the movie). Maybe he could have done movies as good in England maybe he could have made it big over at were he was born. But if it wasn't for his love for both Sweden in general and Helena Bergström in particular (who is his big star in almost all his movies) he would have stayed in the UK. But if you ever get your hand on one of his movies with English subtitles rent it or take the time to see it on TV. I gladly recommend his movies to you, he is among the best exports for the UK. Only registered users can write comments.
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