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Agnes&Elin Forever! wrote:I never said it's been shown once on TV, I said 2-3 times.
2 times I know for sure, in 2001 and 2002, possibly once more but not on national TV, but on some other commercial channel.
The film was a hit but nobody really knew why, not even Moodysson himself
Agnes&Elin Forever! wrote:... I said 2-3 times...
fish wrote:Agnes&Elin Forever! wrote:... I said 2-3 times...
It's been shown more times in Australia it seems.
SBS, which is a channel that shows mainly non-English language films, have it on their list and every year or so it gets an airing.
In fact one of my copies of FÅ is from when I recorded an SBS showing.
fish wrote:I'm really glad we have SBS in Australia.
They serve up a pretty good mix of European and Asian films with a few South American and North African ones thrown in for good measure.
Usually between one and three films a night depending on what their late night sporting committments are.
Fröken Sverige is another one they've shown.
Then on the Pay TV side of things World Movies Channel have 24 hr a day (mainly) non-English speaking films.
Lots of indies and that sort of fare too.
Anything from 'Room In Rome' to 'My Life As A Dog'.
DMt. wrote:This is like trying to work out why anything is successful really; because it captures the public's imagination or heart, or constellates its fears? [Or does all three... ]
Presumably Sweden in particular was ready for this kind of 'look, it's love, get over it' approach to the lesbo issue, but lots of other countries seem to have picked up on it too. It's a Zeitgeist thing, maybe, such-and-such a production suits the needs of the time, and the hapless producers get hurled into the global spotlight.
DMt. wrote:Well, who wants to be their tight-arsed sort of 'normal', anyway?
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