Everyone Is Older Than I Am ( Alla är äldre än jag )

Everyone Is Older Than I Am (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Alla är äldre än jag
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Sweden ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
75 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Martin Widerberg

Written By:
Martin Widerberg

Actors:
Arvid Widerberg ..... Himself (archive footage)
Bo Widerberg ..... Himself (archive footage)
Joel Widerberg ..... Himself
Martin Widerberg ..... Himself
Morris Widerberg ..... Himself

Synopsis:

In the late 70's, filmmaker Bo Widerberg started making a documentary about his father Arvid. At the time, Widerberg was one of Sweden's most acknowledged and successful directors. The film about Arvid was never finished. Bo Widerberg's son Martin has utilized this unfinished project to make his own poetic and exploring film, an equivocal tribute to his father and grandfather which, at the same time, probes Martin's own relationship with his own nearly grown up sons.

The director's father, master filmmaker Bo Widerberg, began making a documentary in the late 1970s about his own father, who was a painter. But the film was never completed, and you sense why in 'Everyone is Older than I am' which continues where the Swedish director gave up back in the day. The film-within-the-film therefore bears witness to a dramatic, yet respectful meeting between two artistic temperaments, father and son, for whom art is equal to honesty - and honesty is everything. It is a genuine privilege to watch Widerberg junior and senior in an incited debate about the means and ends of art. The big question, which is always approached but never formulated, however, is whether the artist is his own most important critic - or if this role befalls his father? At the same time, you sense a deep understanding between the two, as when the father in a random comment acknowledges that 'Elvira Madigan' was in fact a really good film. In the Widerbergian signature style of bright and impressionistic imagery, an unsentimental story is gradually unfolded across four generations of a family where the artistic vein clearly runs deeply. And even though honesty has a price and all families have their skeletons in the closet, there are no 'Rosebuds' in Martin Widerberg's film, which might subscribe to the Scandinavian tradition of relentlessly studying close, familial relations, but which - entirely in the spirit of the family it portrays - insists on living in the moment. The family film of the year!

An entertaining, subjective, fun and a bit melancholic documentary about the director's father's inability to finish his documentary about his father and as a logic conclusion the problems with fatherhood. For them and therefore for me.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 19 September, 2013.

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