Giliap

Andersson’s underseen second feature confounded admirers of his celebrated 1970 debut, A Swedish Love Story, and was a commercial and critical flop upon release, notwithstanding its selection in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. Stalling his feature filmmaking career for a quarter of a century, this eccentric neo-noir set around a shabby Swedish seaside hotel has become a cult film and can be enjoyed as a bridge between his realist, lyrical debut and the radically different comedically composed and drolly morose sensibility he adopted for his four celebrated later features.