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Wonderful Movie

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

This is a punk movie directed by Ulf Malmros. It starts at the end and loops around in fits and starts till you get all the details filled in.Starring Tuva Novotny in the title roll and Jonas Rimeika as her brother Erik, this Swedish film takes place in a small town where the movie theater shows films that have already come out on VHS. Erik's descriptions of small-town life are funny because they're all true.I won't discuss the plot because it gives things away. But the pleasure in this movie is in the details. The soundtrack reminds me of "Repo Man," and the details of hick town life ring absolutely true. It's basically a mash-up of "Repo Man" where things happen to punk background music and generic heroin -- er, beer -- and "Pulp Fiction" where things happen out of sequence, and "Flanders" (directed by Bruno Dumont) where things happen in a really depressing corner of the world. But "Slim Susie" is funny. I just sat there laughing as Erik told his disjointed story, waiting as all the pieces fell gradually into place.

Was this movie suppose to be good, or do you have to live in Värmland to appreciate it? 'Cause I found it to be way over hyped on all plans, the only good thing about it, was the actor performance by Kjell Bergqvist.It has come to my mind that Ulf Malmros is way over credited for his movies, he is definitely not as good as some people portrait him to be.This movie is NOT for everyone, be sure you live in Värmland or close to it, so you can relate to all the bums who seems to be living there (met a friend where I study, who told me it was really like that where she comes from, Torsby). I don't hope anyone foreigner watches this movie and think the Swedes are such bums as they are portraited as in the movie.

Teresa Fabik (Hip Hip Hora!) recently complained about how no Swedish filmmakers dared to do something really twisted. I am sure she hasn't seen Smala Sussie.What we're talking about is basically a Swedish Pulp Fiction, only better. And what it lacks in violence, it makes up in clever dialogue.Great comedy is a rare talent. Because it isn't what you say, but rather how you say it, that is important. I'm not sure that non-Swedish viewers will be as pleased as I am, because a lot of the subtle humour is lost between the subtitles. I hope, however, that nobody fails to notice the wonderful performance by Björn Starrin (Pölsa). Like a few others of the cast, Björn is not a professional actor. Smala Sussie is in fact his first movie experience ever. Yet he pulls off one of the funniest performances I've seen in a long, long time. Björn very much deserved the Guldbagge-nomination he didn't get.Pölsa's words of wisdom have in fact become some kind of religion to me. A religion where hon med fönen is the son, Pölsa the father, and Uffe Malmros the holy creative spirit.

There have for the last decade been quite a lot of Swedish films about the Swedish world outside Stockholm. The stockholmers have had a lot to laugh about. Little is known here about how the smalltown Swedish inhabitants take that.But "Smala Sussie" ("Slim Sussie" in English) is funny in more ways than being a hillbilly comedy. The acting by young Björn Starrin, Jonas Rimeika and Tuva Novotny is great. There might be a place for a discussion whether murder and using drugs really is a funny subject. Here it is so however, although everything is far from the Tarantino treatment.But you have to be Swedish to appreciate this. Or maybe Scandinavian.