A Man Called Ove

WOW! A movie about a Grumpy Geezer! This is an absolute masterpiece.
MUST GO
“You’re amazingly crap at dying.” Parvaneh (Bahar Pars) in the hospital.
Ove can’t wait to join his beloved Sonja in the hereafter; but his attempts are always interrupted.
I can honestly say that I have never before felt such a strong connection to a character in a movie. I have thought to myself how sad it would be to lose a lifetime partner.
Rolf LassgÃ¥rd plays Ove, a man in his late 50’s who has lost his wife to cancer, and lost his job due to redundancy. He is angry all the time, and demonstrates his anger by berating his neighbors, and making everyone stick to the letter of the regulations of the community in which he lives.

You know something is going to change when new neighbors move in. The husband is Swedish, the wife (Bahar Pars) is Iranian-Swedish and pregnant, and their two daughters are adorable. You can see the end coming right from the start.

What you can’t see from the start is Ove’s back story. Life has dealt him some bitter blows, some of them involving deceit by the people he calls “the white shirts.” Ove truly loved his wife, Sonja, portrayed very well by Ida Engvoll. Now he has nothing and no one to love, and he takes this out on the world by being a pain in the neck.

The movie has some funny moments and some tragic moments, and, eventually, they all fit together. The film is well crafted, well acted, and well photographed. It’s hard not to like a movie like this.
Ove is an eccentric whom you will love by the end of the film. After all, you just need to put an “L” on his last name.