Together | Lisa Lindgren (II), Michael Nyqvist | Don't avoid this film just because it's about a...

Together | Lisa Lindgren (II), Michael Nyqvist | GREAT movie - has every element you could want

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	Together Lisa Lindgren (II), Michael Nyqvist MGM (Video & DVD), 2004 average customer review:based on 27 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Heartfelt and scrupulously funny (Rolling Stone), this comedy about a Swedish commune is 'the most sheerly entertaining foreign film to reach these shores in years (Movieline)! Starring Lisa Lindgren and Michael Nyqvist, Together is a hilarious (Vogue) and enchanting (Entertainment Weekly) romp through both the familiar and unexpected, where the slightlyridiculous merges with the almost sublime (Los Angeles Times)! Marxists and nudists and vegans oh my! Life goes from hippie heaven to hellish anarchy when a suburban housewife and her two precocious kids move into a 1970s communeonly to unleash a maelstrom of suburban values. But as the belligerent beatniks and commitment-phobic communists start questioning their beliefs, theyall begin to realize that sometimes living in harmony can be an all-out war.

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Don't avoid this film just because it's about a commune

Fun, light portrayal of a commune of left-wingers from an earlier time in history. Much better than I expected; a sleeper gem in many ways. A certain warmth is operative throughout. Without checking to be sure, I feel almost certain the writer was female. The characters evolve and change during the film in often surprising ways.

I'm skeptical of the logic that shoves a film into a glbt ghetto, just because there are one or two gay characters. Most of the characters in this film are straight. But it can't be denied that this show will appeal to both communities, rather than just one or the other.

I've yet to watch a Scandinavian film I didn't like. Where the French wax cynical and depressing, the Scandinavians have a certain optimism about human relations. I lump Norway, Finland and Sweden together because I haven't discerned any differences amongst them so far.

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GREAT movie - has every element you could want

I have to admit that I loved this movie. It is not easy for me to find a film that compels me to care so much about the characters. Whether it was finding one repugnant or feeling incredibly sorry for another one, I was fully engaged with all of them and really wanted to see what happened. I found that just their daily interactions were complex and often hysterical. Even the kids (very rare that I really like kids in films) were fascinating. This movie is set in the 70's and I found only one "mistake" about the time period. Other than that, everything was appropriate to that decade - especially the mere notion of free sex/love and communal living. But the personalities of these characters make this movie worth watching. I watched it last night and I find myself still laughing about it today. If you like quirky, complicated people trying to survive living together interesting, you will like this one for sure.

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Wonderful Fun Film

This is Lukas Moodysson's hippy version of Fanny and Alexander, minus the panarnormal. It works.

Golgi Apparatus

Of the three Lukas Moodysson films I've seen, this one is my least favorite. That's not quite as bad as it sounds. I loved Lilya 4-Ever [Region 2] and Show Me Love. Together had me running hot and cold. It was quite a while into the movie before I began to care about many of these characters. The real core of this movie is daughter Eva. I found her character, storyline and acting to be what ultimately kept me watching it all the way to the end. She is brilliantly awkward. Not even awkward. Normal but not one of the bonehead popular girls.

It is the people in the Together collective themselves who I largely disliked. Not that I have to love people, or that they have to be people with whom I'd want to fraternize for me to like a movie, far from it, but for much of the movie almost all of them annoyed me. I quite enjoyed Eva's father and his new friend, though.

And yet... the movie is somehow tragic and quite lovely. In American cinematic terms, think of a Pleasantville, albeit one that takes alot longer to get going. As a person who is as far from being a "soccer fan" as one can be, I found myself quite moved by it at times here.

My 2nd viewing is what drove home my ambivalence. The sections of the movie I didn't care for the first time around seemed to be even more tedious the 2nd time, but yes I still enjoyed what I'd previously enjoyed. Summation: I'd never buy this movie. Seeing it twice during the rental was enough for me. That's what separates this movie from the aforementioned Moodysson films. I greatly enjoyed and was consistently moved (or haunted) by those 2. Were I unwrapping a Christmas or birthday gift and found one or both of those inside I'd be completely pleased and would end up seeing both of them many times. Together didn't have that sort of staying-power. I think it could have, but it didn't quite.

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Was it so good?

This was a fairly good movie, but it is not a 5 star DVD. It is basically a story about aimless hippies in mid 1970s Sweden and their impractical solutions to their bizarre little problems.

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