Beyond
Svinalängorna
Skyggesiden
Sweden / Finland / Denmark / Norway,
2010, 99 min
Directed by:
Pernilla AugustCinematography:
Erik Molberg HansenCast:
Noomi Rapace, Ola Rapace, Outi Mäenpää, Ville Virtanen, Tehilla Blad, Junior Blad, Alpha Blad, Selma Cuba, Minna Haapkylä, Håkan Bengtsson (more)Plots(1)
Leena, has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her dark childhood. One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on. (official distributor synopsis)
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Beyond is a typical depressing Scandinavian movie whose purpose is to show us glimpses of the protagonist’s difficult
past in flashbacks and let us suffer with her. What’s the point? We already know that Noomi Rapace is a great actress.
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