Fucking Åmål director commentary English subtitles

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This is Lukas Moodysson and I'm going
to try to say something about the film.

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The first time i watched the film with
this thing in the beginning, -

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- then I thought that
it was a bit problematic.

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I thought that people would
expect completely wrong things -

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- since it's looks a bit
like science fiction.

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Instead it becomes very
everyday and Swedish.

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I thought that people maybe would
get confused by it.

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The film shouldn't really
start with this scene.

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It was really much
later in the film.

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But when we editid we thought
that whis was a good start.

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That you put the cards on the table
and tells about what it's about.

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This is a good song.

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In Berlin everyone laughed when it said
Mathias Rust, since the German who -

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- landed on The Read Square
in Moskow had this name.

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They thought it was a
faked artist name.

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The film should originally start
with this scene.

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And it was maybe too much...

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It was cool to shoot this scene.
We made new takes the whole time, -

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- so Erica had to shower all the time
because she had O'boy everywhere.

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I think this is very fun...
she was really like this.

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It's quite good this scene,
I think.

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I think this is rather impresive.

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It's a nice zoom, it should have been
even more zooms in the film.

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This was impresive.
It was the first day Mathias was on, -

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- and his first filming day ever.

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I was pretty nervous.

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He was probably even more nervous,
but he was just super good.


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I like that scene a lot,
because I was happy it worked -

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- and I started to understand
that it would work with -

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- all this unexperienced actors.

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It's a Morrissey poster on
the wall.

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It's should have been Morrissey music
in the film, but it never happened.

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It was too problematic and expensive.

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I've only seen the film 3- 4 times,
and it's difficult to see it.

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Now I'm sitting and watching it in a
small sound studio in the countryside.

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And it's a quite strange experience.

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I think it's difficult to see it.
I always believe that I'm going to think -

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- that it's awfully bad, -

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- and that it's some sort of mass psychosis
that makes people think it's good.

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I think it seems
quite OK, this film.

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This is the weirdest
pictures in the whole film.

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I like it very much
because it's so stupid.

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That pan shot from
classroom to classroom.

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It's a emergency-picture, to make you
understand that they aren't in the same class.

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It's the worst picture I've done,
but just because of that it's quite cool.

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At times it's cool to do
bad things because it's fun.

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This is a cool scene,
when she says all wrong.

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She said wrong in reality,
bacuse she didn't know French.

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Josefin then,
who is very skilful.

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She only attended seventh grade then
and didn't know so much French.

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It's quite good this, I think.

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That little speech line earlier...

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It's cool when they throw tomatoes,
it got smutty in the restaurant.

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The line about stopping to breed was
something I heard on the bus.

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Someone who said that her nail varnish
had flaked, so she should die now...

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It was a girl I heard on
the bus sometime.

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In the last scene we
put up a lot of hockey plates.

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I was very busy choosing the correct
plate, so it was the right kind.

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This is Broder Daniel.

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I'm happy that we got to have
Broder Daniel's music in the film.

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Unfortunately it's oddly mixed,
so in some cinemas it sounds bad.

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The sound itself, then.
It was some sort of mistake.

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This in the elevator is shot
in a home for the old people.

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There weren't many lifts
that fitted in Trollhättan.

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Such that closed by themselves.

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This looked rather different in
the script. We cut a lot -

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- because it got difficult with the lift
door that should close and such.

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She says something completely different
there, so it's really cut together.

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A lot of a film is really created
when you cut it, -

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- so a lot is Michal
Leszczylowskis merit.

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At times, when I and the actors
think we're skilful, -

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- it's really cut that way.

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Some seconds here and there it enough.
If you edit it together it works.

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One of the few sneak commercials
is there in the elevator.

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The carrier bags are a commercial
for an ICA shop in Trollhättan.

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Else it's not much like that,
there are no sponsors.

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She has such a cool dialect there.

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Alexandra had to learn how to
speak the Trollhättan dialect.

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We pretended it was the Åmål dialect,
and some people taught her that.

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At times it went really good,
other times less good.

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Erica, who plays big sister,
helped a lot.

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She was often there and helped
Alexandra with the lines.

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The in and out list was in the
script, but I removed it.

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I thought that it wouldn't exist
any real list, where rave was out.

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It felt like something stupid
that wouldn't exist in reality.

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Suddenly we found a Vecko-Revyn
with a list where rave was out, -

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- along with i.e. pasta, Spice Girls.
Then we included the list again.

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We changed quite a lot during
the shooting.

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There are a lot of scenes that
are completely improvised, -

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- where the actors get to do and
say whatever they want to.

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Quite a lot changed
during the shooting.

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I'm a vegetarian, so it's me who
propagands in favor of not eating roastbeef.

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This scene is one of the oldest,
it existed in an early version of the script.

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I'm very fond of this one,
it's one of the very first.

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The script itself really started
with the two sisters, -

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- who lived next to a mass murder
that kept killing people.

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They locked themselves out and had to knock on
at the neighbour's in the middle of the night, -

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- and there were a lot of bloody
matters, knives, murders and things.

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This scene was before they went
into their neighbour, -

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- and it started my whole
interest for this world.

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That they should talk about what they wanted,
to take drugs and to become in love...

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We made up a part of the scene
during the shooting.

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The Italian from Bosnia is a left-over
from an earlier script.

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Maybe it doesn't fit completely,
that she has been with a Bosnian who -

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- pretended to be Italian.
It's maybe too metropolistic.

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This is good. It's nice to see that
she talks with her back towards the camera.

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I think one moment here is
really good, it'll come soon.

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It's good that she drinks all the time,
and that she bends out of the image.

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I didn't control many of the
best moments.

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You can't direct details like that,
that will make it totally lifeless.

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A lot of what I'm most proud of
was things I hadn't planned.

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Alexandra wanted to direct the boys in
the shower, but I took over a good deal.

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Alexandra had many ideas
and we discussed a lot.

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This was shot after I had
said thanks.


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It's the editor's merit
that it's in the film.

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This is outside the hockey arena
in Trollhättan.

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They are good here.

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This is a small error in the film.

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If you live in Åmål I don't
think it means so much -

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- if one is 14 and one is 17.

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It's not such a big
difference in that age.

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That kick was for instance not
planned.

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He's so touching and good here.

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I'm really happy about
the music in the film.

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That we got to have the Gyllene
Tider-tune in it makes me happy.

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The shooting here in front of the
mirror was much longer than in the film.

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Johan was really good
for a long, long time.


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A good tune in the background,
which is missed outside Sweden.


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I'm always surprised that people
likes the film in other countries.

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I've just come home from
USA and Canada.

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They don't understand
things like Gyllene Tider.

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There are some small technical errors
with look directions and such here.

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The posters come from they who
plays Elin's friends, «the gang»

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They came and put up posters
and wrote things.

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They wrote with lipstick, put up their
favourite boys and made a mess of things.

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This is fun.

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That big nice buffet that
the set designer had made.

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And then nobody comes,
such a tragic image.

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A magic thing: How did she manage
to ring the doorbell from down there?

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Yes, the dad has made an own
bell for her.

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And then he lifts her up.

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I find the Robyn perfume
very cool.

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I was afraid that Robyn would believe
that we made fun of her, -

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- but it's more that it's
jolly to have your own perfume.

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Robyn liked the film and wanted
to have her tune with.

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I'm incredible glad for that,
it made the film a lot better.

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This is an example of directing
your aggresions over to other people.

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Like getting scold at work, and
then you go home and beats your wife.

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Not me personally then...

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It's not her Agnes it's mad at,
more her parents and the whole world.

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We discussed whether she could say
«I want to go home now», -

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- because she drives home. But she
couldn't say «I drive home now».

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It was cool when she should drive
wheelchair, she doesn't in reality.

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This is a sad scene.

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I think the film seems
quite OK so far.

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This is edited different from
how it was filmed.

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A good way to write a screenplay
is to exclude some things.

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She says «I know that my mum was
like them who...»

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So you say. You don't always
speak in complete sentences.

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You understand that she means «like
them who mob me», or something like that.

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Maybe we should have seen it
was an A-drain there.

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It didn't exist most likely,
I can't remember.


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It's really nice zooms actually.

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He had eaten so much sweets
he wasn't able to eat anything.


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In reality he's chewing a jellybean
or something.

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Agnes' liberal mum has given them
some wine to drink.

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This scene is an example of mine and
camera man's Ulf Brantås principle -


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- that we in a while came to how
we wanted to shoot the film.

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We just placed the camera in
a corner.

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On a tripod. There are nearly no hand
cameras, even if a lot of people think so.

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You place the camear in a corner,
zooms and follows people, like here.

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I have no deep comments on this,
they exist in the film.

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I comments only little things.

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I had Orson Welles on my
wall in Göteborg.

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I don't know why I have
included Casablanca.

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It's so cool that she comes
crawling in the stairs.

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The thought is not that Agnes
is supposed to be high-cultural, -

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- but that she likes strong
feelings in some way.

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I've written to poem so it's
not supposed to be very good.

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But it's still quite good.
Or maybe not by the way.

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I think that Rebecka thought
it was a bit too bad.

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That it was a bit too bad to
be a poem written by Agnes.

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Elin haven't at all thought that
she will become a lesbian so far,  -

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- it's just something she says.

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But I'm not sure of that.

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On the left is a cloth that's
visible in all my films.

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It was even there in she short film
«Bara prata lite» («Just talk a little»).

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It's hanging there just to be with.
It's my fun thing.

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It's going to be in my
nest film too.

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On the wall are real photos of Rebecka
when she was a kid.

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Romeo and Juliet is a small mistake.
I thought it was good, -


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- but many said it was bad. It's
stupid it's shown so much.

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It becomes like they are Romeo and
Juliet, but that was not intended.

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Other things are more thought out,
like the Morrissey poster.

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By the lamp is an Edvard Munch
postcard I appreciate very much.

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And these are my son's drawings
in the background, I believe.

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It's supposed to be Agnes' drawings,
that she made when she was small.

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It's so touching with that sad and
clown-like mouth, -

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- and it starts to jerk in her chin.

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This is an example of such things
you can't direct.

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That her chin starts to jerk is something
she does because she feels for it.

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After that scene I thought it was the
best I ever had directed.


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I don't know,
maybe I still think so.

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She throws the 20-note on the ground
there, not everyone understands that.


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In the last scene Erica started to sing
«Sommaren i City 1990» («Summer in City 1990»).


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But it was cut out.

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The party scene was cool. We had borrowed
a house we didn't change very much.

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It's not much set design, we just
went into the house we'd borrowed.

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It was cool, even though it became
hard at 5 in the morning.

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It's a bit weird that she answers
when she's so sad.


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It was hard to direct when they
should say offensive things, -

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- because I am a bit touchy.

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It's cool when they play electric organ,
it's also on the soundtrack.

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The «Pripps Blå» (beer brand) thing on
his head is also not directed.

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"Do you have a crush on her?"
The dialect is so cool.

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They sing «Fancy Dreamworld» in
the background, that's also cool.

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She's really drunk now, I assume.

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It's good when she's vomiting.
From the beginning it was a lot coarser.

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Johan Hult was much meaner
originally.

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He nearly tried to rape her here.

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But it was more interesting and better
that he was a nice boy.

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He was more like Markus originally,
and touched her.

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But we never recorded that,
which I'm happy for.

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It's good that he didn't become
a pig, even though he's

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We had to remove the bath tub
to get room for the camera man.

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I sat outside with
a video monitor.

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Toilet scenes are hard to shoot,
because there's so little room.

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It was cool to shoot this.

229
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Apart from here late in the morning.

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It was a cut scene here in the kitchen,
where Elin says she wants to make off.

231
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,360
It's really great when she
starts to cry here.

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You shouldn't think that she
was going to take Distalgesic.

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She puts them back and
thinks to cut herself instead.

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It's cool when you serious
things a bit human and fun.

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To commit suicide with normal safety
razors is both tragic and comical, -

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- which makes it more touching.

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Normal razors had been coarser
and not so comfortable, -

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- like she was professional in
commiting suicide.

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00:31:16,599 --> 00:31:20,559
This was hard to put sound on in away
that the music didn't become to romantic.

240
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It could easy become something else,
too Hollywoodish.

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00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,319
«Okidoki» (OK) is put on afterwars.
It's a good think to say.

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It was important that it was
a nice dad in the film.

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Surely because I'd just become
a dad myself.

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00:32:34,599 --> 00:32:37,799
The music here is good.
And she walks funny. A good picture.

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Some desolate desperation.

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One of the set designers tried to cut
herself with a double safety razor -

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- and she said it bleed a lot.

248
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:11,039
Not so much that she was in danger of dying,
but a lot more than you would think.

249
00:33:18,799 --> 00:33:21,799
But this is a film trick.
A bit amateurish, but it's quite nice.


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A lot of us in the cast and crew did
a feature film for the first time.

251
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Like me, the set designers and
a lot of the actors.

252
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It was fun to be on the same
level, and that I wasn't -

253
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- surrounded by a lot of super proffessionals.

254
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The camera man, editor, producer
and sound technician were profesionals.

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00:34:00,039 --> 00:34:03,880
It rains here in reality,
but one can't hear nor see that.

256
00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:19,360
She answered here originally, but
the cutter thought she should be quiet.

257
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,719
It's good. She stands dumb opposite
this crazyness that surrounds her.

258
00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:31,719
That she's first going to die,
but then she say okay after all.

259
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,239
I think that's so nice...
...that she doesn't die.

260
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:01,360
This is not a favorite scene.
It was originally longer.

261
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,320
They discuss that thing
around her hand, -

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- and then she say she was
going to commit suicide.

263
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,599
But then she say she's joking,
and Elin doesn't know what to think.

264
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,360
Then they discuss the Bob Hund CD,
and Elin thinks it's a person.


265
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,920
We filmed all that,
but it didn't work out well.


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One of the few occasions when the
acting didn't work properly.

267
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,239
Alexandra and Rebecca are
super super good all the time.

268
00:35:43,519 --> 00:35:46,679
It was me that didn't explain
what I wanted I guess. So we had
to edit this scene.

269
00:35:58,599 --> 00:36:02,440
I haven't got a DVD player, so I
don't know how it use to be.

270
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,840
It use to be a bit deep
things maybe.

271
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,239
One of the points with the film is...

272
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...that she says «yes, okay»
all the time, and comes with.

273
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,480
She could easily had been
sour and bitter.

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This was in the middle of the
night and it was very cold.

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We shot a small part and then
they jumped into big down jackets.

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The point is that Elin has too little
clothes, but it was very cold.

277
00:36:54,760 --> 00:37:00,800
Alexandra had just had inflammation of
the throat, she was on a penicillin cure,
so it felt a bit like child abuse here.

278
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,480
Everything around the bridge
was very complicated to shoot.

279
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,719
It was very cold and then you
get in a bad mood.

280
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:31,039
But you can't stand leaning toward a
fence of metal when it's cold outside.
You can't do that even in the summer, at
least in the night.

281
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,480
So we blow-dried it with
hair dryers to heat it up.

282
00:37:44,679 --> 00:37:48,480
But it didn't help very much,
so it also feels like child abuse.

283
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,559
She stands there suffering with
her arms on that cold fence.

284
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:43,159
It's cool that a big truck comes
in the middle of the night.

285
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,840
If I were to make a re-make of
this film in the U.S., -

286
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- which I absolutely won't do
personally, but a lot of people
have asked about this, -

287
00:39:00,079 --> 00:39:04,039
- then it would be cool if it was
in Alaska and all the cars that come -

288
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- were full-loaded timber trucks.
There's something romantic about them.

289
00:39:31,279 --> 00:39:34,239
This scene is okay,
not one of the best, -

00:06:17.40,00:06:20 .52
- men en av de viktigaste.

- but one of the most important,
but I think... OK.

290
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:50,039
I'm very proud of this scene because
it was so difficult to get right.

291
00:39:51,559 --> 00:39:55,800
The cars came in the wrong order, and
a lot of cars stopped that weren't
supposed to.

292
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Just because it was a girl
in a short dress standing there.

293
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,960
We had to reshoot and reshoot...

294
00:40:05,599 --> 00:40:08,599
And then it started to get light,
but it had to be dark -

295
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,239
- so we had to edit a lot.

296
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:21,039
And they forgot their lines. But they
were really heroes there in the cold.

297
00:40:29,199 --> 00:40:32,440
Rebecka was going with the first train
that morning (at 5 a.m.) in addition.

298
00:40:38,039 --> 00:40:41,039
The lasts things here,
like when the car really stops, -

299
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- are done in 4 minutes.

300
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:52,679
I never thought it would be enough,
that we had to do it again.

301
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,159
But it worked fairly good
and I'm proud of that.

302
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,079
It's a lot of things like that you're
proud of when you're a director -

303
00:41:05,079 --> 00:41:08,599
- that you manages to get together
something that you didn't think
would work out.

304
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,599
This in the car was shot previously,
the night before I think.

305
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:25,280
Originally Scorpion's «You and I»
should have been background music...

306
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:30,800
...he looks like the football trainer
Sven-Göran Eriksson, but it isn't him...

307
00:41:32,119 --> 00:41:35,719
...but then in the car Malin and I heard
Bonnie Tyler's «Total Eclipse of -

308
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,519
- the Heart» in the radio all the
time, and thought it was so damn good.

309
00:41:46,159 --> 00:41:49,199
But it was too expensive, it costed
around 400000 SKR so we swapped to
Foreigner.

310
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,800
It was lucky, because it's really great.

311
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,360
And this is so romantic...

312
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,079
Everyone wonders if this was
a hard scene to shoot, -

313
00:42:10,079 --> 00:42:12,159
- and I think they should answer
that themselves. But I don't think so.

314
00:42:12,159 --> 00:42:14,800
The hard was a lot of
technical things.

315
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:20,000
They didn't hear when the door
was opened in the beginning, and
continued kissing, -

316
00:42:24,639 --> 00:42:27,280
- so we had to reshoot it
3- 4 times.

317
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,880
We got the "Welcome to Amal" sign
specially made, -

318
00:42:35,559 --> 00:42:38,679
- because Amal municipality didn't
want to lend us any. They were really
angry at us.

319
00:42:38,679 --> 00:42:40,760
Not now, but then they were.

320
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,880
I can understand that. They didn't know
what the film was about, -

321
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,480
- just that is was going to be called
Fucking Åmål.

322
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,800
It was stupid of us not to tell
what it was about, -

323
00:42:52,199 --> 00:42:55,039
- so they didn't think it just
was mean. Because I don't
think it is at all.

324
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,079
It's cool when she smokes
and eats chips at the same time.

325
00:43:15,079 --> 00:43:17,159
It's my favourite chips.

326
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:28,199
In this scene there's a small error,
but I won't tell you - find it yourself.

327
00:43:30,159 --> 00:43:33,639
Or there's an error between this
scene and the last one.

328
00:43:40,559 --> 00:43:44,599
This is a balcony, that she walks
on to and throws out the chips.
Not everyone has understood that.

329
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,800
This is an example of a scene where
we just placed the camera in the
same position the whole time.

330
00:44:09,159 --> 00:44:12,400
They talk about that Leonardo
DiCaprio is «flötig» here.

331
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,159
It's a Trollhättan expression which
means that he's just skin and fat.

332
00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:27,679
That one is un-muscular, but a bit fat.
No, it have to mean bone and fat.

333
00:44:35,159 --> 00:44:38,800
And then this should be a dream sequence,
I'm a bit disappointed of that.

334
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:44,199
We shot the picture on her foot for fun,
like a "foot fetish" picture.

335
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:54,119
It use to be such pictures in all
films, when they shall enjoy a bit.

336
00:44:58,559 --> 00:45:01,840
So we kept it. It's so stupid,
but it's still cool.

337
00:45:15,199 --> 00:45:18,199
It was important to have that dream
sequence, because we should know
that what she experience with Agnes -

338
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,719
- still was in her head.
But it was hard to do.

339
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,360
This is a funny scene.

340
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,480
She has some sort of face solarium
she turns on in the end.

341
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,559
I'm proud of my own dialog here;
the wheelchair match is basket.

342
00:45:49,599 --> 00:45:53,159
I had to leave here because
I started to roar with laughter.

343
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,039
I couldn't manage to see it,
it was too comical.

344
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:09,880
Josefin was so great, but she...

345
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,920
...never managed to learn the
lines just like I wanted them.

346
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:21,320
But it doesn't matter, because
the result is good anyway.

347
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:24,679
The solarium came there because
Josefin had planned a trip to
Mallorca.

348
00:46:28,079 --> 00:46:32,039
To avoid it looking strange on the
film when she was sunburnt, she'd
look red and strange, -

349
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:38,679
- we thought up the solarium,
like an occasion to why she was brown.

350
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:48,239
I don't think you see... or anybody
thinks about... But it's a lucky
chance that it turned out that way.

351
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:52,519
They have Spice Girls posters
because they hate them.

352
00:46:54,079 --> 00:46:57,920
They've written a lot of shit about
them and scribbled on their faces.

353
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,159
You see different photos of the sisters
and such in the background.

354
00:47:07,599 --> 00:47:10,719
It's a bit strange that she still says
hello after a so long time, but...


355
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,280
Elin is wearing a shirt, while her
sister is wearing a quilted anorak.

356
00:47:21,639 --> 00:47:24,079
- and that's maybe a bit strange.

357
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:29,760
But Elin is a person that doesn't
wear so much, though.

358
00:47:34,119 --> 00:47:37,880
It's hard to know what to
wear at some seasons.

359
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,960
But there's no leaves on the trees.

360
00:47:48,159 --> 00:47:51,920
There's some children on the fence
behind there looking. That's cool.
They sat there with their bicycle
helmets on.

361
00:48:01,159 --> 00:48:04,760
This is one of the few occasions
when we used hand cameras in the film.

362
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:12,440
The children was not planned,
they just sat there watching.

363
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:36,519
I think she hurts for real here,
because Alexandra had really hit her,
so she got a bit sad.

364
00:48:37,039 --> 00:48:39,119
One of my favourite scenes.

365
00:48:40,159 --> 00:48:43,960
This was so cool - Erica told me she
had a friend who watched the film and
didn't really know what she thought of it.

366
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:51,599
But when this scene appeared, and he
opened the hatch with sweets, -

367
00:48:52,639 --> 00:48:55,480
- she understood it
was a good film.

368
00:48:55,760 --> 00:49:00,039
I don't really understand why... but in
some way I understand, it is fun when
someone win a lot of sweets.

369
00:49:04,599 --> 00:49:08,159
Abroad people think that this is
an actor and a parody.

370
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:11,639
They can't believe that neither
the show nor Loket are for real.

371
00:49:17,599 --> 00:49:21,119
Even in Denmark someone commented
that this was a good actor.

372
00:49:28,519 --> 00:49:31,519
A good scene,
and then this family idyl here.


373
00:49:32,159 --> 00:49:34,480
And then she talks about her dad.

374
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:40,559
We discussed where the dad
had gone.

375
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,840
We discussed the characters
a lot before the shooting started.

376
00:49:45,159 --> 00:49:49,000
I don't direct so much,
so it's important that the actors -

377
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,320
themselves know what they shall do
and who they play.

378
00:49:56,599 --> 00:50:00,639
I don't know if we ended up with something
about the dad... we concluded that the mum
do some work of caring nature.

379
00:50:01,279 --> 00:50:05,159
And that she has night shifts. That's
why she's often away at night.

380
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,960
It's good when Alexandra
lies down like that.

381
00:50:11,679 --> 00:50:15,599
I think she did so on a practise
and then I told her to do it again.

382
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,400
It's not in the script.

383
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:22,119
This was quite painful
to shoot.

384
00:50:22,599 --> 00:50:26,199
But it was important so it shouldn't
get too pink light.

385
00:50:36,119 --> 00:50:39,400
That there's some corporal love
aswell. So you understand she's really
on to Elin.

386
00:50:40,279 --> 00:50:42,760
It had been too cute otherwise.

387
00:50:47,559 --> 00:50:54,159
But Rebecka thought it was hard to play
alone, so she told me afterwards that
if she was ever going to make another
film with me she could to anything if
she just had some company.


388
00:50:59,519 --> 00:51:02,920
So in my next film I'm going to
write a gigantic orgy scene to Rebecka.

389
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:09,800
No, I'm not. I'm not going to do that.

390
00:51:16,159 --> 00:51:19,159
She wrote black rings under the
eyes of Jenny Ulving.

391
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,039
But it's not a hate
towards Jenny Ulving personally.

392
00:51:30,039 --> 00:51:33,960
It's more a symbol of all the beautiful
faces you see in the magazines, -

393
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:38,719
- who Elin can feel she hates. But
I don't know exactly. I express myself
so bad here.

394
00:51:45,119 --> 00:51:49,500
This was also very cool... we just
placed the camera in one place and
zoomed in on various things.

395
00:51:58,639 --> 00:52:01,719
That was a "boar car" driving by
playing "Hjalle och Heavy".

396
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:11,119
I never undertood what they're talking
about here... if it's about strenght
training or weight-liftning or anabolic
steroids and such things... I don't know
- they made that up themselves.

397
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:15,280
A good scene.

398
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:26,000
Both of them are good here. And it's
good that he suddenly backs in there
in the middle of the scene.

399
00:52:48,039 --> 00:52:55,099
I remember now this was quite hard actually.
It's again in the middle of the night. Then
you often get grumpy and tired when it moves
toward morning again.


400
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:58,800
I was angry at alexandra because
she was so stubborn.

401
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:04,039
She was mad at me too I guess,
because I was angry with her. But
it wasn't that serious.

402
00:53:04,159 --> 00:53:07,000
Alexandra was a person you get
angry with.

403
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:10,920
That's what's so good with her,
that she has a strong will.

404
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:15,760
So it sort of "comes in the package".
What a stupid expression!

405
00:53:28,599 --> 00:53:32,280
This is quite undirected, they did
what they wanted to themselves here.

406
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,679
What you feel when you sit looking
at the film like this... when I've
seen the film before in cinemas...

407
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:53,679
as I've said before I haven't seen
it many times... I've been thinking
about the reactions of the audience.

408
00:53:54,599 --> 00:53:58,599
For instance when they laugh and
why don't laugh, and what they are
thinking of.


409
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,679
But when I'm sitting here watching it
for myself now, I feel how much -

410
00:54:10,159 --> 00:54:17,920
- I like the characters and I'm
touched by various persons and how fun
it was to make this film. How nice and
good people they were in reality.

411
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:25,320
The boy who cycles in the background
was also only occasional. He was there,
and we thought he could cycle a bit
there in the background.

412
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:30,119
Later his Dad came to pick him up,
and he was wearing a Einstürzende
Neubauten t-shirt.

413
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,480
That was a bit unexpected in Trollhättan.

414
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,480
Or I'm maybe only prejudiced now.

415
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,119
I regret a bit that she's standing
there in bra. That was not because she
should stand there in bra.

416
00:54:49,159 --> 00:54:52,960
It was because you should understand
that she should dress quickly.

417
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:56,199
Bcause she was going out to see
Johan Hult.

418
00:54:59,559 --> 00:55:01,239
This is good.

419
00:55:02,159 --> 00:55:06,119
She should be stressed then, because
they'd decided to meet and she was
late.

420
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:12,880
This is good. This is one of the
best moments, real Swedish sadness.

421
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:18,400
And the wind.

422
00:55:24,519 --> 00:55:27,320
This was here at first because it
was Agnes' dad's music.


423
00:55:28,679 --> 00:55:30,519
It's Lars Gullin.

424
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:33,679
But it's got a great importance.

425
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:40,000
It gives a sad Sunday feeling or afternoon
feeling, when everything is a bit sad.


426
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:49,199
I'm happy I found out I would
use this music.

427
00:55:51,559 --> 00:55:55,239
This scene was originally longer, we
had to cut it a bit, but the principle
is interesting.


428
00:56:05,079 --> 00:56:08,639
In a way he says something comforting,
but in a way not.

429
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:14,119
When you're sixteen you can't imagine
how it will be 25 years later.

430
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:19,440
It's comforting in away, but it still
isn't at all. It's a bit complicated.

431
00:56:37,500 --> 00:56:40,000
An interesting detail, or a totally
uninteresting detail...

432
00:56:40,500 --> 00:56:44,500
...that I'll mention even so. There's a
detail that isn't quite right in this film
but nobody notices,

433
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:48,500
and that's the fact that Rebecka is rather
small, or even very small, and the Dad is
very tall...

434
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:53,500
...and I mean very tall. Such a big
difference in height is maybe not.

435
00:56:59,679 --> 00:57:03,280
There's also a big difference in height
between Elin and her sister.

436
00:57:12,159 --> 00:57:14,840
So Elin got to stand on different
benches and such.

437
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:18,039
Here it's a lot... It's good when
they talk here.


438
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,639
This is also improvised,
I only told them what to talk about,

439
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:28,500
the trouble the day before and such,
but it's all improvised and it was
very good.

440
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:33,500
We had to change this scene. We started
to shoot at another location. And this
was also one of those days when I was

441
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:37,880
in a really bad mood, and thought
everything went really bad.

442
00:57:38,679 --> 00:57:43,400
I remember I called the producer,
Lars Jönsson, who was in Stockholm,
and told him that we had to cancel
the film, -

443
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:49,960
- becuase it gets really bad,
they are acting bad, everything
I do gets bad and everything goes
to hell.

444
00:57:53,760 --> 00:58:01,639
We were working on this scene and I thought
that nothing worked out and I didn't know
what to film or nothing. But then as a
coincidence...

445
00:58:03,639 --> 00:58:07,079
We started shooting by the municipal
music school in Trollhättan.

446
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:13,599
They had drum practice, so it was drum
playing in the background all the time.

447
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:18,500
We tried to make them quit their
drum practise, but they wouldn't and I
can understand that...

448
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:22,440
...because they had waited for the
practise all week so they couldn't
cancel just like that.

449
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:29,039
We were in there talking with the
headmaster, but they refused to quit
and blah-blah and I can understand that.

450
00:58:32,239 --> 00:58:35,880
So we had to move the whole scene
to another location, -

451
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:38,480
- which is where it is shot.

452
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:43,079
It's a much better environment, it's on
a playground it wasn't before, and the
scene became much better.

453
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:49,000
Suddenly I felt I was not completely
worthless, that I maybe shouldn't go
home and kill myself -

454
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:52,000
- and that it maybe would
become a completely okay film.

455
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:55,599
And it's nice in the end when
the leaves blow over the playground.

456
00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:00,639
And it's cool in a way that they quarrel on
a playground.

457
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:03,400
Expresses the sandbox-level in a way.

458
00:59:06,559 --> 00:59:09,559
And that they still
are children in a way.

459
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:16,079
Besides, there's a link
to the film "G", -

460
00:59:16,079 --> 00:59:19,360
- when Niels Jensen walkns and sings
"Barn" ("Children") on a playground.

461
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:23,880
It's not among my favourite
films, -

462
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,320
- but I think there's some
subconscious link there.

463
00:59:31,159 --> 00:59:33,760
Now I've missed commenting some things, but...
This is one of the best camera moves in the film.


464
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:37,239
The pans back and forth all the
time, even from the beginning.

465
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:41,000
Over to Jessica who sits down, and
it becomes an echo image.

466
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:50,599
And it started over there on Agnes.
That was done great.

467
00:59:56,119 --> 00:59:58,840
There are nice wallpapers there,
completely spew-green.

468
01:00:08,599 --> 01:00:10,760
And that's a real "slap on the face".

469
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:33,559
Another scene where the camera sits
in the same place the whole the time.

470
01:00:33,559 --> 01:00:34,960
Good tune.


471
01:00:37,199 --> 01:00:40,840
I got the idea that we should shoot
the whole scene in a complete image.


472
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:47,400
There's a bit too few complete images in
the film, but it's not a big problem.

473
01:00:48,119 --> 01:00:51,400
I think you should have gotten
to see more of Elin's room.

474
01:00:56,960 --> 01:01:00,119
Here's a mix of two tunes
that we did.

475
01:01:00,599 --> 01:01:02,559
It ends with Yvonne.

476
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:10,800
Alexandra really wanted a nicer
light setting here than we had planned.

477
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:21,559
We had thought of something more
realistic, but she wanted something nicer.

478
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:25,800
So we lightened her, and set
the light more romantic.

479
01:01:29,199 --> 01:01:32,400
It's so nice he's wearing his
digital watch.

480
01:01:37,519 --> 01:01:42,320
Karl Strandling, who plays the hockey
coach, was the person who found the
actors, did some research and such things.

481
01:01:42,719 --> 01:01:45,760
He's from Trollhättan
and is a great quy.

482
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:48,960
He's really an actor and made
this guest apperence. He is
really good.

483
01:01:55,199 --> 01:01:58,880
We edited together a lot
of unsuccessful pictures from
the hockey arena.

484
01:02:05,599 --> 01:02:08,639
The team playing here is probably
better in reality than it seems like here.

485
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:19,440
But it creates a great contrast to
what the girls are talking about on
the tribune.

486
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:27,599
That's not Markus there really.

487
01:02:30,559 --> 01:02:33,159
I'd thought that the scene should
take place on a park bench, -

488
01:02:33,159 --> 01:02:35,280
- or at home in their room.

489
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:42,320
But a girl from Amal told me that
when she grew up they often sat -


490
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:52,800
- on the tribune watching the
boys when they practised hockey.

491
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:56,719
So I moved the location here.

492
01:02:59,159 --> 01:03:02,800
Many situations have come out of
influence from other people.

493
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:10,840
I wrote the script all by myself and
then a number of people read it.

494
01:03:12,679 --> 01:03:16,880
Some lesbian girls in this age,
or a bit older, teenagers from Amal
and Trollhättan, -

495
01:03:22,039 --> 01:03:24,880
- and people who had knowledge about
different things.

496
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:33,480
The photo earlier was showing Stefan Hörberg,
the actor who plays Markus, from his time
in kindergarten.


497
01:03:36,079 --> 01:03:39,159
He's just eaten a flower there
in reality.

498
01:03:49,599 --> 01:03:55,599
This was a fun day, because this is shot
in Kungälv's ice hall, which was one of
the few that still had ice at the time.

499
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:02,920
We had a lot of fun and played for a long
time. I can't skate, so I didn't, but we

500
01:04:03,199 --> 01:04:07,920
played a lot of weird games on the ice.
So that was fun.

501
01:04:13,519 --> 01:04:16,519
Another zoom.


502
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:35,800
This scene was a bit hard because
that poster was going to be there.

503
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:47,480
I guess I have this... even though it's
a good scene. So when we practised the
scene we just put a yellow note there.


504
01:04:48,519 --> 01:04:51,880
We only put up the porn poster when
we shot the scene.

505
01:04:52,679 --> 01:04:56,079
I have some sort of cleft in myself
between what I write -

506
01:04:57,880 --> 01:05:00,280
- and things I want to talk about.

507
01:05:02,039 --> 01:05:05,360
But I'm maybe exaggerating a bit,
I'm not that prudish.


508
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:15,639
This scene was a bit tough because Axel,
who plays little brother, was a bit
troublesome this time.


509
01:05:18,159 --> 01:05:21,599
He'd hurt his foot and took it a
bit serious than it really was.

510
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:29,840
He god the idea that he's fractured
the foot and refused to walk and was
limping all the time.

511
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:37,719
He plays very good, and was very
nice and friendly.


512
01:05:42,599 --> 01:05:46,440
Her lines here is based on what I'd
answer myself if someone asked.

513
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:49,840
It's my own dumbness that's presented.

514
01:05:51,440 --> 01:05:54,840
She's says things that are true,
but in a bit funny way.

515
01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:03,440
It was important for me all the way
not to make fun out of people, -

516
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:07,320
- so I wrote it about like
I'd say it myself.

517
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:18,719
That's most likely the reason it
becomes comic, but not contempting.

518
01:06:28,880 --> 01:06:32,719
This shows that it exists a lot
who is so liberal and correct, -

519
01:06:33,559 --> 01:06:37,480
- who is in favor of homosexuals and
against racism, but when it comes -

520
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:42,840
- close to themselves, like their own
children is homosexual, -

521
01:06:47,079 --> 01:06:49,480
- they suddenly get another view.


522
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:58,719
Even if one is even so intelectual
and correct, it's a big chance -

523
01:07:00,079 --> 01:07:03,400
- that one reacts like this when
it comes so close to oneself.

524
01:07:04,239 --> 01:07:08,119
Exactly like a lot who speaks for
a multi-cultural society often -

525
01:07:13,079 --> 01:07:15,400
- are people who don't live in it.

526
01:07:25,559 --> 01:07:28,159
I'm also in favor of a multi-cultural
society that's not the question.

527
01:07:28,159 --> 01:07:32,159
But there is a problem having
so good opinions officially, -

528
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:38,159
- but to think something else
in practice.

529
01:07:57,280 --> 01:08:01,039
The people in "Bingo lotto" had now
idea they were going to be in
Fucking Amal.


530
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:17,479
The sofa here belongs to Malini Ahlberg,
who was director of production.

531
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:25,640
After the shooting it smelled
really bad.

532
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:29,760
It was most likely moth
or something in the apartment.

533
01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:33,840
She was very sorry about
the sofa being ruined.

534
01:08:34,199 --> 01:08:35,880
Sorry, Malini.

535
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:42,760
This is not supposed to be some paraphrase
to a scene in a Kieslowski-film.

536
01:08:52,399 --> 01:08:56,079
He has supposedly done a similar scene,
but I haven't seen that.

537
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:20,920
Here the boys are so good.


538
01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:26,720
The dialog is a bit overstating. It's
even good, because Stefan plays it
really good.

539
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:47,479
That's good.

540
01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:22,880
It's important that one shall
be able to change sympathies.

541
01:10:24,439 --> 01:10:28,479
One feels sorry for Johan Hult here,
and before one thought he was an idiot.

542
01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:35,920
He is dumb, but one feels very
sorry for him here.

543
01:10:36,399 --> 01:10:39,239
That look is very good
and sad.

544
01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:50,800
In this scene it's many,
especially girls, -

545
01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:55,680
- who cheers when she calls
to brake up with him.

546
01:10:57,199 --> 01:11:01,000
One can do that, but at the same time
it's very sad for Johan Hult.

547
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:24,000
People start to applaud here, but
I don't know. It's maybe right.


548
01:11:53,079 --> 01:11:55,079
This scene is okay.


549
01:12:01,399 --> 01:12:03,359
Mark 3 out 5 I think.

550
01:12:05,039 --> 01:12:07,279
Sometimes 4, sometimes 2, mostly 3.

551
01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:11,159
Sometimes 4.

552
01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:16,439
This is completely incomprehensible
in other countries than Sweden.

553
01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:22,000
A lot of people asks: What is an A-drain?

554
01:12:22,199 --> 01:12:25,800
Nobody understands that A- and K-drains
is some Swedish superstition.

555
01:12:26,359 --> 01:12:28,520
It's hard to translate.

556
01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:35,760
It becomes K-drain,
and "love" doesn't begin with K.


557
01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:42,479
The translation becomes complicated,
and it becomes quite incomprehensible.

558
01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:16,600
This is edited.


559
01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:23,399
The order was completely different.

560
01:13:23,560 --> 01:13:26,479
So we had to maximise the drama
in the editing.

561
01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:38,800
When one direct, cut and
write one try -

562
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:44,279
- to maximise the feelings all the time.

563
01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:48,479
So we edited quite a lot here.

564
01:13:49,039 --> 01:13:52,000
We made these photographs a while
before the shooting.


565
01:13:54,239 --> 01:13:57,239
A lot of people wonder why she's
called Akerblom in the book.

566
01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:10,039
We made the class photo before we
started shooting the film.

567
01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:16,600
I thought she should be called
Akerblom then.

568
01:14:16,600 --> 01:14:19,640
But during production I
changed it to Ahlberg.

569
01:14:20,239 --> 01:14:24,039
It's Malini Ahlberg's surname.
Akerblom is my mother's maiden
name.

570
01:14:28,039 --> 01:14:31,159
It's completely unlikely that
she would manage to throw
the rock that hard.

571
01:14:31,159 --> 01:14:34,000
But now I'm sitting here
unveiling secrets.

572
01:14:35,319 --> 01:14:38,880
We throwed stones with a slingshot,
to be able to brake the window.


573
01:14:43,119 --> 01:14:46,119
She would never be able to brake
the window with that rock from that
position.

574
01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:03,640
That's really a broom closet they're
walking into.


575
01:15:08,920 --> 01:15:11,840
This is the only scene shot
in a studio.


576
01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:18,560
We built a studio which looked exactly
like the toilet in this school.


577
01:15:19,319 --> 01:15:22,520
It's just a little bit bigger, so we
were able to get enough room.

578
01:15:23,479 --> 01:15:25,960
The camera is standing outside though,
I think.

579
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:32,520
All the other scenes are shot
on real locations.

580
01:15:45,840 --> 01:15:49,560
I'm starting to feel a bit tired now,
I've seen this so many times.

581
01:16:08,199 --> 01:16:12,079
My only thought is that I was sitting
in an armchair when we shot this.

582
01:16:12,359 --> 01:16:16,560
I was mostly sitting on benches, but
since this was in a studio I had got...

583
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:20,000
...an armchair to sit in. Incredibly
interesting information...

584
01:17:12,159 --> 01:17:14,399
Back to school now.

585
01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:22,439
I chased Alexandra into the
broom closet here.

586
01:17:27,239 --> 01:17:31,000
And then she clamped her thumb,
so she almost died of pain.

587
01:17:36,600 --> 01:17:39,880
I think she's mostly thinking that
she was really hurting here.

588
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:49,880
I was going to show her how to close
the door quickly, and then she cruched
her thumb.

589
01:18:16,640 --> 01:18:19,319
Here comes Nisse again,
he's really great.

590
01:18:28,600 --> 01:18:32,119
Nisse, who knocks on the door,
is the boy who plays electric organ.

591
01:18:36,399 --> 01:18:40,239
We are credited as authors of the
fantastic electric organ music on the CD.

592
01:18:52,399 --> 01:18:57,000
And that's... that's... now I was
going to say something, but I don't
remember.

593
01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:40,319
In one version of the script it ended
with them kissing here.

594
01:19:41,399 --> 01:19:45,119
It would have been too much, but
you want it to be solved -

595
01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:48,960
- so they can have each other.

596
01:19:49,199 --> 01:19:52,760
I'm romantic and both believes
and hopes it will be so.

597
01:19:57,000 --> 01:19:59,800
If you got to see what what
happened after the film.

598
01:20:03,239 --> 01:20:05,680
He's a real teacher at the school.

599
01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:11,479
All the pupils are pupils from the school.

600
01:20:18,840 --> 01:20:22,500
He has quite cool lines there that you
unfortunately can't here, where he talks
about, well... verious things.


601
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:29,439
Johan and Jessica
becomes together, then.

602
01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:09,319
This is the big "Grande Finale" of the film.

603
01:21:11,359 --> 01:21:14,680
But for me comes the big moment
a bit later.

604
01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:20,199
That's a funny line.


605
01:21:20,199 --> 01:21:22,840
The really brave
comes a bit later.

606
01:21:23,319 --> 01:21:27,079
They are brave, but this is something
one can do when one is in passion, -

607
01:21:31,119 --> 01:21:34,079
- when one is very
harrassed by the situation.

608
01:21:34,760 --> 01:21:37,079
When one is emotionally high.

609
01:21:43,079 --> 01:21:46,399
The really brave part is that
they sit down and talk.

610
01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:55,560
Like two persons who goes home
together from the pub -

611
01:21:55,560 --> 01:21:57,640
- and spends
the night together.

612
01:21:57,640 --> 01:22:02,560
The real brave is the day after, if
they dare to see each other's eyes
and talk.

613
01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:10,960
Even though the dialog here is pointless.
It's completely improvised.

614
01:22:11,500 --> 01:22:14,500
We discussed so we knew about what
they were goint to talk about.

615
01:22:17,399 --> 01:22:21,079
The dialog has no big meaning,
but it's the key to -

616
01:22:27,800 --> 01:22:30,520
if they're going to succeed
in having a relationship.

617
01:22:36,119 --> 01:22:40,279
Elin could go back to school and
say "She's stupid. I was just joking..."

618
01:22:41,319 --> 01:22:44,279
The bravest is that they sit here
and talk.

619
01:22:51,199 --> 01:22:55,079
When it cuts from the scene before,
and "Show me love" fades up -

620
01:22:56,399 --> 01:22:59,680
- it's one of the strongest
moments for me in the film.

621
01:23:00,039 --> 01:23:04,920
Partially because it's a good moment,
and partially because it reflects
the success and triumph of the film.

622
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:14,840
At the premiere it was such
a great atmosphere.

623
01:23:21,359 --> 01:23:24,800
I'll always connect this song with
the public progress of the film.


624
01:23:27,079 --> 01:23:29,640
This is the world's slowest
credits.


625
01:23:30,720 --> 01:23:35,119
It's to include the complete song,
which is quite long, so we made
very slow credits.


626
01:23:42,680 --> 01:23:45,960
Britt Odeberg Alexandra and
Rebecca's teacher, -

627
01:23:46,840 --> 01:23:48,920
- so they could do some schoolwork.


628
01:23:48,920 --> 01:23:51,000
Adviser Coco is my wife.

629
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:55,760
She has had a lot of influence.
She has a lot of influence with
everything I do.

630
01:24:01,920 --> 01:24:05,119
Sofia Wennberg is credited twice.
I don't know why.

631
01:24:07,119 --> 01:24:11,720
Now I really haven't anymore to
say but... The songs are listed one by
one only to include the whole song.


632
01:24:21,680 --> 01:24:23,239
I like all the songs.

633
01:24:23,239 --> 01:24:26,640
I haven't chosen any music
because it should be cool.

634
01:24:27,399 --> 01:24:30,640
The song by Combayah isn't my
favourite type of music, -

635
01:24:31,559 --> 01:24:34,159
- but is chosen
because I like it in a way.


636
01:24:34,680 --> 01:24:38,279
Even the Lasse Kronér tune, whick
one hardly hears, has a meaning.

637
01:24:45,600 --> 01:24:48,319
Even the lyrics has some
little meaning.


638
01:24:49,760 --> 01:24:53,640
I'd never choose tunes which only
should sound in a specific way.

639
01:24:57,039 --> 01:25:00,559
All tunes must have a meaning
for the narratation too.

640
01:25:06,920 --> 01:25:10,680
The last people in the thanks list
is they who read the script, and
came with advice.

641
01:25:25,119 --> 01:25:28,440
Yes... I don't know really what to
say on things like this, but now
I've tried -

642
01:25:28,760 --> 01:25:31,880
- so I hope you're not disappointed.
Thanks and hey.