The Serpent's Way (Ormens vag pa halleberget)

A deeply unsettling historical drama set in the 19th century, based on Torgny Lindgren's novel from 1982. The story follows a peasant family struggling to survive as all their women are sexually exploited and abused by a powerful landowner and his son, in exchange to pay…

St. Sebastian

Detta känns som något Lars von Trier måste ha inspirerats av. Jag gillar det spretiga berättandet med alla tidshopp. Jag har inte läst boken men jag erinrar mig att den nog passar bättre som bok. Men med det sagt så är det ingen dålig film. Tycker också om hur återhållsamt…

julian

1800's period drama and misery porn depicting how capitalism, patriarchy, and religion go hand in hand to plant the seeds of generational trauma. Widerberg was most likely inspired by the golden age of Swedish films, as in the silent era, considering his use of traditional…

DungeonSkramz

Jag är fortfarande lika hänförd som jag var för drygt ett år sedan. Widerbergs Ormen gör sig näst intill lika bra som Lindgrens bok och det är en ynnest få förunnad. Stellan Skarsgård gör en av sina intressantaste och vassaste karaktärer i den maniskt rådvilla Karl Orsa…

nosskiremik

A tragic story with abuse frpm a family to another. Though this contains sexual abuse, i think Widerberg delves in the early Swedish class system and actually i think this is a social class-abuse and exploitation and that is a subject he returns to from time to time and…

Girotti75

I happened to come across this movie, it is so incredibly tragic and the most tragic of them all is the role that Stellan Skarsgård plays so well, he is so slimey and disgusting. Worth watching.

emolwa

Swedish

Axelfilm23

Gli oppressori andrebbero uccisi.

Cristiano Lo Presti

How much punishment can the soul suffer before it sinks into the ground and disappears completely? The themes of Torgny Lindgrens great novel is present, but the language and poetry is not.  That makes for a slow and sad descent without the wit and humor of the source…

Joakim Silverdal