My Life as a Dog
One of the best-loved
European films of the last three decades (it was Oscar-nominated twice, and won the
BAFTA and
Golden Globe for
Best Foreign Language Film), Lasse Hallstroms international breakthrough is set in late
1950s Sweden and stars
Anton Glanzelius as twelve-year-old Ingemar, a mischievous scamp who is sent away to a rural town to live with his uncle and aunt after his terminally ill mother can no longer cope. There, he bonds with various eccentric characters, including the tomboyish
Saga (who beats him at boxing) and old Mr Arvidsson, whose favourite reading matter is his beloved lingerie catalogue. While negotiating both teenage growing pains and assorted personal tragedies, Ingemars life has its ups and downs, but he retains his winningly cheerful outlook by constantly remin
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