So good is the X & Y movie with Mikael Persbrandt and Anna Odell

But to the artistic experience, I am more thoughtful. According to Odell's preliminary description, "X & Y" is a film that explores identity, a man, a woman. […] a game of reality and fiction and a controlled study of what it means to be human in our boundless medial contemporary. "

Anna Odell has brought together an actor who modulated Trollhättanstudio in a Modoll-Minimalist "Dogville" and will discover different parts of Persbrand and Odell's personalities. It can be fear, creativity, intelligence, the ability to destroy, and so on. The goal seems to be silly, but most "drills" revolve around aggression and sexuality, and there is some satisfaction in seeing the often dominant Persbrandt exposed to his own personality. But this is probably an artistic omission for veteran Galeasen a.k.a. "Knuller Chicken" (as he calls himself in last year's autobiography, aiming for a provocative theatrical scene).

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In any case, there are two hours where you can really get bored with these two stimulating cultural personalities. The method of investigation is similar to that of the sensational "Rehab" (2013). But when he was hinted at the way he plunged into our scrambled school memories of intimidation and power games, I no longer have the same interest in the inner life of Persbrand and the other. ; Odell. It is difficult to perceive "X & Y" as a reality, distorted into fiction. Especially not when Odell starts talking that she wants to put Persbrandt on a vest, and the song producers are wondering what her family will like.

There is a lot of lies on the border between the extremely pretentious and damn fun. Like when they decide to raise a "child of art". The most evocative of the film "Hello Baby" by Marie-Louise Ekman (1976), where she naked or dressed in fur or meticulously examined different identities in a world of world-famous art.

"X & Y" is best when it balances the eye to the limit of the license, but gives me no new idea of ​​what it means to be human. Maybe some to be Mikael Persbrandt.

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Footnote: "X & Y" opens the Stockholm Film Festival. The film was then screened nationwide on 23/11.