Wednesday February 6th 2019

Sweden   2015  116 minutes
Director: Hannes Holm
Starring: Rolf Lassgard, Bahar Pars.
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​59-year old Ove is an archetypal ‘grumpy old man’. Since retiring, and recently losing his wife, he busies himself being the self-appointed guardian of the small housing estate where he lives, enforcing the many trivial rules and regulations of the neighbourhood. When a new, and Indian, family moves into the terraced house opposite, Ove feels his ordered existence is about to be disturbed. Matters are hardly improved when they accidentally reverse into his mailbox. Despite the resulting tensions they insist on treating the ill-tempered Ove as a friend. This is a light-hearted film, and a long way from ‘Swedish Noir’.