All Things Fair
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Movie Reviews of All Things Fair
Movie Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
I am just happy that this film is on DVD. Rent the film and watch it and see if you'd get a copy of your own. Recommended for art film lovers.
All Things Fair (Lust och fägring stor)
--1995, Best Foreign Language Film, Academy-Nominee
--1996, Blue Angel Award for Best European Film, Berlin International Film Festival
--1996, Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize, Berlin International Film Festival
Movie Review: great film
Summary: 5 Stars
much more interesting than your run-of-the-mill coming of age story. complex, with precision editing. could become a cult classic.Movie Review: Coming of Age (and then some)
Summary: 4 Stars
"All Things Fair" is a very good movie that might suffer somewhat because it may have tried to say too much for one film. I knew that it would be a bit ribald from the brief synopsis I had read. It is that (and, at one point, an example that European movies have less taboos that even present-day US cinema does). However, this is also a movie that seeks to understand rather than just being a Swedish "Porky's". Our 15 year old hero (and he IS an heroic character) is faced with many challeges that makes him seem more like Sonny in "The Last Picture Show". His ability to comprehend the nature of the people he interacts with is a comment on the director rather than a 15 year old boy. Indeed. it is director Bo Widerberg's vision that makes this film a worthwhile experience. He gives us the puberty-crazed boys and all their antics along with adults who have difficulties facing their realities. The blending of humor and pathos left me with a sense of enlightenment.
I have seen better movies than "All Things Fair" but I've enjoyed every movie I've seen that was as good as "All Things Fair". It is a bit shocking at times but it is, ultimately, a very endearing movie.
Movie Review: difference between movie and real life
Summary: 4 Stars
a swedish middle school student was seduced by his teacher and start a love affair. when the affair ended, the teacher was being rather nasty. but it didn't matter because the war started. the student's older brother died in a u-boat.
for a movie, the subject is rather great. but if it were in real life, it would've been another scandal in the news...
Movie Review: realism is no excuse
Summary: 3 Stars
This is supposed to be a story about an affair between a high school student and his teacher. The events, feelings and interactions that make up that story are just as real as the other things in this movie, yet the movie gives us only brief glimpses of this relationship which add up to a total of maybe five minutes of this two-hour movie. Such a one-sided selection cannot be justified merely on the grounds of realism.
And since even a Swedish film cannot include everything that must have occurred in the character's life during these months, selection has to occur, and that means that some criteria have to be used to make the selections. There is no excuse for including a ten-minute drunken ramble by the husband. There is also no excuse for spending time on Stig's job at the movie theater. Even if they did not come at the expense of the main story (of the relationship), they would not be justified.
On the plus side, the glimpses we do get of the relationship (brief as they are) are effectively done. There is no teasing with the camera (except for the extreme brevity of the nude glimpses).
Also, the handling of the teenage girl was well done and was probably the most moving aspect of this long film.
Bottom line: it's worth watching if you can get it on a rental or borrow it from a friend.
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