Movie
Lamento
2014 · 87 min
A quiet, suffocating study of grief held at arm's length, watching a woman go through motions that keep her pain just beneath the surface.
- Directed by
- Jöns Jönsson
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Gunilla Röör, Hendrik Kraft, Björn Andersson
- Overview
- Magdalena is struggling to cope with a major crisis in her life: some time ago her daughter Sara committed suicide. Magdalena finds herself consumed by a grief she cannot overcome. Although the event has shattered her world, she nonetheless manages to ‘function’ smoothly on a daily basis – whether this involves trying to sell Sara’s dog Truls, picking up her second daughter’s son from his piano lesson, eating with the family of an evening, attending a session with a spiritualist or going to a bar. These are all things she would have done anyway, and a strict routine helps prevent her pain from rising to the surface. Only when Sara’s former boyfriend visits does she begin to see a path through all her denial, speechlessness and feelings of guilt.
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- Directed by
- Jöns Jönsson
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Gunilla Röör, Hendrik Kraft, Björn Andersson
