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Nalen

1998 · 60 min

A warm, nostalgic hour of old musicians reminiscing over faded clips, like leafing through a scrapbook of a lost scene.

Overview
Documentary about legendary Swedish jazz club "Nalen" featuring interviews with old musicians and singers, and old clips from the place in its glory days

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • music
  • memory
  • aging
  • art
  • friendship
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism9
Romance2
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
documentary, music
Directed by
Jonas Sima
Starring
Lars Bagge, Putte Wickman, Monica Zetterlund, Lena Dahlman, Arne Domnérus, Bengt Hallberg, Erik Frank, Jan Allan
Cinematography
Åke Åstrand
Runtime
60 min
Country
Sweden
Languages
Swedish

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