Venice. Farval Falkenberg.

"A coming-of-ager made with no money but plenty of heart and cinematic smarts, first-time writer-helmer Jesper Ganslandt's Falkenberg Farewell is by turns funny, tragic and nostalgic," writes Gunnar Rehlin for Variety of the Swedish film that'll also be screening in Toronto.

Bénédicte Prot in Cineuropa: "What presents itself as a scrapbook is, in fact, a collection of memories from the happy youth of the director and his hometown cronies, which mixes old 8mm films, photographs, music, and digital images, and supports the 'narrative (or lack thereof) with titles and a voice-over-read diary." The result is "a truly interesting work which gives him a promising future as a director."

At europeanfilms.net, Boyd van Hoeij calls it "a freewheeling dive into the hermetically sealed world of all-male friendships that, though the film's storytelling technique is quite impressionistic by way of Gus Van Sant, feels natural and true."

Posted by dwhudson at September 3, 2006 12:04 PM