Guldbaggen

Guldbaggen is the name of the Swedish cinema prize, similar to the Academy Awards in a certain way. This is not an event I have ever been interested in to be honest, my opinion of Swedish film lately has been: dull, uninteresting, lack of quality and quite frankly just plain bad in some cases. This is absolutely not something I feel generally of Swedish film, historically we have had great success with many, many great works up until the 21th century. I feel that since the millennium shift there has been a lot of quantity in the business, with a very low rate of quality. The one (of the few) responsible for that little bit of quality in my opinion is Roy Andersson. His latest movie, Du Levande or You, the Living brought home the most prestigious awards, including best movie, best screenplay as well as best directing. I’m extremely happy he got these awards, it is so good that quality film is really being awarded. The honorary prize went to Gösta Ekman who without doubt deserves it. A true entertainer indeed (you probably need to be Swedish to know who he is).