With: Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson
Plot: 12 year old Oskar meets and befriends a young vampire girl (actually 212). As the two are overwhelmed by first love, they cling to each other to escape very different empty home lives.
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The whole thing looks gorgeous and emotional moments are played exactly right, with a chilly quiet hanging over every scene. These are the only two things this film gets properly right, but it gets them so right that it's very easy to overlook it's faults, greatest of which is its ridiculously overpacked story which wants to be gritty and naturalistic as well as gothic romantic. Throw in some could-be-any-film gore and horror (but it's arty cos they did it in a really long shot, right?) and you've got a big, restless film. It's testament to the main tentative yet whole-hearted romance that it keeps the film often feeling like a masterpiece, crowded in as it is with absent fathers, terrible pasts, standing up to the bullies and a thousand other things. I'd really like to see it again, despite it being uneven, and I look forward to Alfredson's next film.
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