{"id":1480,"date":"2005-02-20T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-20T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/reviews\/movies\/popularmusik_vittula.html"},"modified":"2010-01-23T02:30:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T01:30:43","slug":"sweden-is-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"Sweden is in Berlin."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/frers\/blosxom\/data\/berlinale-ticket.gif\" width=\"350\" height=\"166\" style=\"margin-right:4px\" alt=\"ticket for berlinale movie\" \/>Thanks to my movie-biz apartment mate Olli I got a ticket for <em>Popularmusik fr\u00e5n Vittula<\/em>, a movie based on the novel of the same name. To my dismay this movie (and the novel) are classified as being &#8220;for teens&#8221;. Germans seem to have a problem with (Scandinavian) Literature that deals with the adolescence and young adulthood, not accepting it into the body of &#8220;serious&#8221; or &#8220;adult&#8221; fiction. Grrrr. Well, as can be guessed from my frustration about this, I am quite convinced that these are really good stories, that should be read by adults, and especially by them! A bit of reflection about what you actually wanted to do when you were younger, about your dreams, and &#8211; quite essential &#8211; about your dissappointments, your bad experiences would certainly do some good not only in these troubled times. This movie does a very good job reflecting this, with an adequate amount of lightness, humor and seriousness. I have laughed more than my share while watching this movie, and I was moved and touched. Get the novel (which I haven&#8217;t read yet) or watch the movie. While you&#8217;re at it, try to get one of the novels written by <em>Erlend Loe<\/em> (sadly, they have been out of print for much too long here in Germany).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0314524\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to my movie-biz apartment mate Olli I got a ticket for Popularmusik fr\u00e5n Vittula, a movie based on the novel of the same name. To my dismay this movie (and the novel) are classified as being &#8220;for teens&#8221;. Germans seem to have a problem with (Scandinavian) Literature that deals with the adolescence and young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,11],"tags":[246,334],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-movie","category-review","tag-berlinale","tag-erlend-loe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}