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Maybe Sweden

2006 · 85 min Drama
2.0 / 10 · TMDB

Maybe Sweden is about five book worms on a reading holiday in a beautiful country house somewhere in South Europe. By the pool, in the hammock and even round the campfire they are buried in their books. Or they discuss literature. This changes when they come across a sleeping Ghanaian in the garden. The rather mousy Mira takes care of his ill mother and, soon, of other stranded boat people. The haven of peace changes into an aid station, not to everyone's pleasure. Harmless collisions - does the Ghanaian have to read Michel Houellebecq to gain a better understanding of Europe? - get out of hand more and more, until the idyll crumbles.

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Year 2006
Country Netherlands
Genre Drama
Director Margien Rogaar
Runtime 85 min.
Rating TMDB: 2.0/10 (2 votes)

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The film constructs a sharp satire of liberal intellectualism, contrasting literary debates with a tangible humanitarian crisis. It explores the gap between theoretical empathy and practical action, where good intentions are tested by real-world complexities.

What lingers after viewing is a sense of uncomfortable truth about the limits of armchair activism. The idyll's disintegration leaves a poignant, unresolved tension. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Margien Rogaar

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