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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780022980
Format: Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 078002298X
Label: Homevision
Manufacturer: Homevision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Homevision
Release Date: June 06, 2000
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 80736
Studio: Homevision
Theatrical Release Date: 1997
Editorial Review:
Description:
Expectations is made up of six interwoven tales offering a fresh look into Swedish culture as well as resonating deep within some universal themes. Inspired by Robert Altman's Short Cuts, Expectations differs by following its charact
Amazon.com:
Expectations follows six interlocking stories set in contemporary Sweden. The movie opens with an old man attempting to leap off the back of a ship. He's rescued from his suicide attempt by a young man with blond hair and tattoos named Sixten, who's returning home after many years abroad. Sixten then shares a train with a married man who strikes up an affair with a businesswoman. Sixten tries to find some common ground with his old father; elsewhere, a man on the verge of divorce struggles to connect with his young daughter. These stories and more are told with a deceptively simple economy: at first they don't seem to be about anything at all, but gradually, with the subtlest of gestures--things as casual and seemingly offhand as the young daughter rubbing cherry juice on her father's cheeks, or Sixten carrying a giant toy bear that he won at a carnival, hoping to run into a girl he'd yearned for long before--the stories start to reverberate off each other. Halfway through, the movie leaps forward six months, where everyone's lives have taken surprising turns. Inspired by Robert Altman's Short Cuts, Expectations is in some ways more successful because its turns and revelations are quieter; there's no high drama, just the small joys and sorrows of everyday existence. Directed with a sure hand by Daniel Bergman, Expectations is considerably less angst-driven than the films of his father, Ingmar Bergman. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Superb photography, riveting plots, memorable characters.
Expectations is a brilliantly produced Swedish film (with English subtitles) by Daniel Bergman, based on a screenplay by Reidar Jonsson. We see a cast of memorable characters whose lives follow there own paths but cross-connect with one another, sometimes with intimacy, sometimes as strangers sharing a common crossroad. The photography is simply superb, the storylines riveting, and the acting gifted. By film's end we have become acquainted and involved with their virtues and vices, aspirations ... Read More
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