Slim Susie ( Smala Sussie )

Tuva Novotny (Actor), Kjell Bergqvist (Actor), Ulf Malmros (Director) Format: DVD

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Genre	Comedy
Format	Import, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
Contributor	Anders Blomberg, Ulf Malmros, Tuva Novotny, Lena Dahlman, Michael Nyqvist, Malin Morgan, Jonas Rimeika, Johan Andersson, Bjn Starrin, Kjell Bergqvist, Lotta Tejle See more
Language	Swedish
Runtime	97 minutes

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Sweden released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: Swedish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Danish ( Subtitles ), English ( Subtitles ), Finnish ( Subtitles ), Norwegian ( Subtitles ), Swedish ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Commentary, Deleted Scenes, Interactive Menu, Music Video, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: When Slim Susie goes missing, her brother Erik returns to his childhood village in Swedish V舐mland to try to find her. Soon after his arrival, he finds himself in a seedy whirlwind of greed, lies and local madness. Beneath the surface, he finds that everything has changed and he can't shake the feeling that no one seems to be concerned with the disappearance of Slim Susie. Not even the one police detective in town. Finally, Erik has to face the disturbing fact that his image of the sweet and congenial little sister he was so fond of is something of the past... SLIM SUSIE is a gangster comedy driven by a wide range of surreal and twisted characters combined with a quick-paced dialogue. The story weaves its way deep within the small rural community in which Erik's childhood best friend has turned into a dopey video freak, the retirement home conceals a major drug centre and the proprietor of the video store is now in fact a local 'Godfather'.
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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No

Language ‏ : ‎ Swedish

Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.03 x 13.76 x 1.48 cm; 83.16 Grams

Director ‏ : ‎ Ulf Malmros

Media Format ‏ : ‎ Import, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen

Run time ‏ : ‎ 97 minutes

Actors ‏ : ‎ Tuva Novotny, Kjell Bergqvist, Michael Nyqvist, Jonas Rimeika, Bjn Starrin

Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Danish, English, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish

Language ‏ : ‎ Swedish (Dolby Digital 2.0)

Studio ‏ : ‎ Sandrew Metronome

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000BGPH1A

Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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michael29187
It has some funny moments but overall it is not worth buying
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 October 2014
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Quirky Swedish movie.It has some funny moments but overall it is not worth buying.
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Mystical Reality Is
Brilliantly Funny Movie! One of the best comedies I've ever seen.
Reviewed in the United States on 26 February 2017
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I love good comedies and they are so rare. I lived in Sweden in the 80's for a year. When I saw this movie I thought to myself,"That could actually have happened where I lived back then." It is an insane movie in many ways, but it is actually plausible if you know rural Sweden as I came to. That somebody was able to distill this in a movie that is so entertaining is amazing to me. I laughed so hard it hurt. You will never see another movie like this one. It is a work of genius! The cultural observation/satire is only comparable to me in American film with maybe "Raising Arizona," "Escanaba In Da Moonlight," or "Waiting for Guffman." Adam Sandler's "Don't Mess With The Zohan" is another somewhat similar type film, but very different. All of them hinge on knowing the cultures and stereotypes and seeing what is really there behind the surface in some way. It ranks among the best comedies I've ever seen. Comedy is really hard to pull off. Absolutely brilliant film that could only have been made by a Swede. My admiration for the work is very high. And it was done on a tight budget, too. I've seen a lot of films at Sundance that could not hold a candle to this one for sheer creativity and nonstop insanity. It is a sleeping gem of a comedy. If it had been done by an American with the same insight into "American" crazy, I suspect it would have been a huge, huge hit.
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Dine Fuss
Mischievously Amusing Small Town Comedy...
Reviewed in the United States on 23 July 2005
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Traffic in small towns throughout Sweden is rather limited, as gas prices have been soaring for more than a decade. People seem to stay put and go about their business, even though the life slowly pulls the individual through a painfully dreary existence. I grew up in such a place where the theater showed movies once a week and the movies were released on video at the same time that the theater got them. For a teen, it was agonizing, as nothing ever happened, or changed in my little village. The only thing that was organized for youth and teens was soccer, and of course all kids from the village became a part of the local club team. The director Ulf Malmros whom also grew up in such a place captures the idyllic small town nostalgia of Sweden in an hilariously exaggerated manner.

Slim Susie opens with the main character, Erik (Jonas Rimeika), and another character, Micke Tretton (Johan Andersson), who are introduced in a later disturbing scene involving a nail gun, fleeing from someone, most likely very dangerous. Erik and the other person decide to separate, as Erik seeks refuge in a small local dinner where he sits down and watches the opening credits for this film, which by the way offers an amusing mirroring scene between Erik and a claymation character on the television. The scene on the television does not exactly end the way Erik wants it to end, as he finds himself sitting in front of an unknown person with a creepy persona that demands Erik to tell him what happened.

An offer that Erik cannot refuse makes him begin to tell the story from the beginning, which starts with why and how he got back to his home town. The story is told through a flashback that is frequently broken up by the interrogator, as he demands the truth from Erik. Through the grilling questions Erik reveals a number of different characters from the village who were involved in the incident. It is never clear what has happened, but slowly through Erik's story the truth emerges. One thing the audience does know from the beginning is that his sister Susie (Tuva Novotny) has disappeared and this is why he has returned to his monotonous hometown.

The film, in essence, dwells on existentialism through the meaningless existence that many suffer from in the small town. Malmros' story of Erik's return home travels on the edge of small town existence in Sweden revealing several of the issues in regards to the dull rural town living. Through the characters each issue is presented in a manner of how to reduce the agony of living in the small town. There are issues such as infidelity, drugs, reality escape, and depression, which seem to stem from the unhappiness. Nonetheless, it is within the unhappiness where the strength of the story rests, as Malmros exploits this situation with parody.

Malmros mischievously incorporates cinematic elements from many other films such as Pulp Fiction (1994), A Clockwork Orange (1971), and Trainspotting (1996) into Slim Susie, which only enhances the visual experience. The camerawork playfully utilizes several close-ups that naturally make parts of the scenes look disproportional, which elevates the parody within the story. In addition, throughout the film the many characters come across as eccentrically peculiar, which strengthens the notion that Malmros' youthful boredom might have heavily influenced him in his creation of this fantastic cinematic environment. The combined journey of Malmro's creation will leave the audience with a spectacular tale full of dark humor and existential questions in regards to what one should do with their own life.
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Carl
Those Crazy Swedes!
Reviewed in the United States on 31 October 2011
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Maybe it's fate (or maybe I just choose really, really well), but I've yet to see a bad Swedish film. Let the Right One In, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, Show Me Love, and, now, Slim Susie. In the previous instances, most were dark dramas or horror films. This time around, comedy is the order of the day. And, dear God, does it deliver! This film tells the story of Erik (Jonas Rimeika) as he returns to his spurned hometown of Varmland in search of his missing little sister, Susie (Tuva Novotny) and runs astray of drug dealers, corrupt cops, and murderous nursing home employees. Sound dark? That's because it is. But director Ulf Malmros makes up for that darkness by making everyone in the town who isn't Erik psychotically quirky. There's Tore Tumor (Anders Blomberg) who doesn't speak and is in a constant battle of wits with a screaming infant. There's Billy Davidsson (Kjell Bergqvist), the police officer who shirks his job by constantly lamenting his shame for having screwed up in Stockholm and getting stuck in Varmland as the constable. And, best of all, there's Grits (Bjorn Starrin), a constantly high drug dealer obsessed with A Clockwork Orange and amateur film-making who provides some of the funniest lines and actions of the entire film. If you like stoner comedies, film-buff parodies, or, as Malmros calls it, gangster comedies, you can't go much better than this film.
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warren
silly and wacky and fun
Reviewed in the United States on 14 December 2018
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this is a wild and wacky journey thru and to madness, but it all makes sense (?) at the end. all is not what it seems except what is. it is brilliant and at the same time dumb as a rock and quickly changes at the blink of an eye. enjoy the madness because it's quite sane. enjoy
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