• Suomeksi

Burrowing

The greater part of what my neighbours call good I believe in my soul to be bad. And if I repent of anything it is very likely to be my good behavior.

– H.D.THOREAU, 1854

There are times when the film feels like Harmony Korine’s ”Gummo” without the gratuitous cruelty; there are echoes of Roy Andersson too in the way the fi lm-makers contrive to combine existential drama with a critique of Swedish middleclass emotional paralysis – and in the slow, lilting piano strains that accompany some scenes. But the writer-directors – actor Hellstrom and cinematographer Wenzel (who shot and conscripted the critically acclaimed ”Falkenberg Farewell”) are more interested in character than either of these models, and they alternate moments of pure visual inspiration (Sebastian wandering through the fields in a Spiderman mask; a shot of a Lidl supermarket, its sign shimmering like the setting sun) with scenes that have real dramatic heft.

– LEE MARSHALL, SCREEN DAILY