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Everything tagged with “Tomas Alfredson”

  1. Review of Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

    Tomas Alfredson's slow-burning, balletic adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is rich in atmosphere, dripping with character and repressed emotion.

  2. Let the Right One In

    Let the Right One In, currently on release in the UK, is a subtitled Swedish art house film set in the early '80s in an impoverished suburban setting, thick with snow and ice. The main character is a 12 year old boy with a perpetually runny nose whose parents are separated, his father an alcoholic. Dialogue is sparse and the bulk of the story is taken up by a schoolboy's struggle against some playground bullies. The critics are loving it. I thought it was ok.