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In a film based on actual events, teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. (Craig Chester) and Richard Loeb (Daniel Schlachet) share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life.
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- Daniel Schlachet
- Tom Kalin
- Drama
In Tom Kalin's controversial Swoon, the boys' sexuality is brought to the forefront and made the focus of the movie. Swoon opens with a bizarre tableau in which Richard Loeb and his friends recite passages from Sacher-Masoch's paean to S&M, Venus in Furs, while Fellini-esque flappers glide past in the background. Then, walking together through ...
Film status: Internationally Premiered. SWOON is the story about two rivaling amusement parks in a raging feud. GRÖNA LUND is the respected and bourgeois alternative in contrast to NÖJESFÄLTET across the alley that offers cheap beer, strippers and run-down attractions.
My expectations were high when i heard that the famous swedish comedian Robert Gustafsson were to starr as a theme park nazi sympathiser, in a 1940 of Stockholm. Alongside the love story of a romeo and julia conflict. 10 minutes after the film started, i wanted to leave the cinema.
Swoon is a film directed by Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein with Albin Grenholm, Frida Gustavsson, Robert Gustafsson, Pernilla August .... Year: 2019. Original title: Eld & lågor. Synopsis: The plot consists of different course of events, feelings and colorful pictures in a staggering tale of war, rivalry, betrayal and forbidden love.
Jul 2, 2021 · Photograph courtesy the Criterion Collection. A crucial work of New Queer Cinema, Tom Kalin’s first feature, “Swoon,” from 1992 (streaming on the Criterion Channel), dramatizes the infamous...
One of the most daring works to emerge from the New Queer Cinema movement of the early 1990s, Swoon offers a radical, revisionist perspective on the infamous Leopold and Loeb murder case. Channeling the spirits of Dreyer, Bresson, and Jean Genet, director Tom Kalin challenges viewers to identify with two of the most notorious killers of the ...
