list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Evil on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Evil/229497/default.aspx Title: Evil
Year: 2003
Director: Mikael Håfström
Plot: Swedish filmmaker Mikael Hafstrom directs the coming-of-age drama Ondskan (Evil), based on the autobiographical novel by Jan Guillou. In the mid-'50s, teenager Erik Ponti (Andreas Wilson) suffers serious abuse at the hands of his father (Johan Rabaeus). He translates the violence at home to school, eventually getting himself expelled for fighting. His mother (Marie Richardson) struggles to come up with the money to send him to a private school, where the senior boys brutally haze the juniors in a ritualistic tradition. Erik makes enemies with senior Otto Silverheim (Gustaf Skarsgård), but, fortunately, finds friendship with Pierre (Henrik Lundstrom) and romance with Marja (Linda Zilliacus). Evil was screened at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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]]>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:58:29 GMTEvil2003Mikael HåfströmSwedish filmmaker Mikael Hafstrom directs the coming-of-age drama Ondskan (Evil), based on the autobiographical novel by Jan Guillou. In the mid-'50s, teenager Erik Ponti (Andreas Wilson) suffers serious abuse at the hands of his father (Johan Rabaeus). He translates the violence at home to school, eventually getting himself expelled for fighting. His mother (Marie Richardson) struggles to come up with the money to send him to a private school, where the senior boys brutally haze the juniors in a ritualistic tradition. Erik makes enemies with senior Otto Silverheim (Gustaf Skarsgård), but, fortunately, finds friendship with Pierre (Henrik Lundstrom) and romance with Marja (Linda Zilliacus). Evil was screened at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide32Tag Target (>10)314http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t82625tutsy.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Evil/229497/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/1/17/23977.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 1/17/2008 10:01:12 AM
Body: This is the kind of movie I look for when attending a film festival. And not just because the protagonist looks like I did at his age. No, the true reason is that this little Swedish film will likely never play in your local theater. It may not even make it to DVD in this country. Unless it wins the World Cinema - Dramatic prize at Sundance, you may never hear of it again. So, forget about waiting in that long line for that higher profile, star-studded indie you and everyone else is looking forward to. You’re sure to have the opportunity to see it sometime in the future. As for Ping-pongkingen (The King of Ping Pong), it could be now or never. Fortunately this is one of the few Sundance entries that I’ve been able to find a trailer for. And doesn’t it help? Who would have given this movie a second thought without seeing that preview? I’m shocked that more festival films aren’t marketing themselves as well. Without the trailer, The King of Ping Pong just sounds like another Scandinavian movie about brothers, though co-scripted by Hans Gunnarsson, who also had a hand in Mikael Hafstrom’s Oscar-nominated Ondskan (Evil), which I liked a lot. With the trailer, we see that the film features a lovable fat kid (and yes, this probably appeals more to me that he looks like a little Christopher Campbell, and that his brother looks like my own brother at that age), who says funny things about ping pong being the last egalitarian sport and about life being a damned merry-go-round (compare his deadpan delivery to the unrealistic performance and unlikely dialogue from Elle Fanning in this other Sundance 2008 film — clip here — for which more people are likely to buy tickets). How could you resist finding out what’s going on in all those quirky-looking scenes? The King of Ping Pong is screening at the Egyptian Theatre on Friday night at 9pm. Then it screens Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon at the Holiday Village Cinema III, then Tuesday evening in Ogden and next Friday evening in SLC. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:01:12 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com1/17/2008 10:01:12 AM This is the kind of movie I look for when attending a film festival. And not just because the protagonist looks like I did at his age. No, the true reason is that this little Swedish film will likely never play in your local theater. It may not even make it to DVD in this country. Unless it wins the World Cinema - Dramatic prize at Sundance, you may never hear of it again. So, forget about waiting in that long line for that higher profile, star-studded indie you and everyone else is looking forward to. You’re sure to have the opportunity to see it sometime in the future. As for Ping-pongkingen (The King of Ping Pong), it could be now or never. Fortunately this is one of the few Sundance entries that I’ve been able to find a trailer for. And doesn’t it help? Who would have given this movie a second thought without seeing that preview? I’m shocked that more festival films aren’t marketing themselves as well. Without the trailer, The King of Ping Pong just sounds like another Scandinavian movie about brothers, though co-scripted by Hans Gunnarsson, who also had a hand in Mikael Hafstrom’s Oscar-nominated Ondskan (Evil), which I liked a lot. With the trailer, we see that the film features a lovable fat kid (and yes, this probably appeals more to me that he looks like a little Christopher Campbell, and that his brother looks like my own brother at that age), who says funny things about ping pong being the last egalitarian sport and about life being a damned merry-go-round (compare his deadpan delivery to the unrealistic performance and unlikely dialogue from Elle Fanning in this other Sundance 2008 film — clip here — for which more people are likely to buy tickets). How could you resist finding out what’s going on in all those quirky-looking scenes? The King of Ping Pong is screening at the Egyptian Theatre on Friday night at 9pm. Then it screens Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon at the Holiday Village Cinema III, then Tuesday evening in Ogden and next Friday evening in SLC. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/romance/MemberTagFilms.aspxromance
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