Killing yourself isn’t easy. Ove, the Swedish curmudgeon, knows. He’s been there. His beloved wife has died, and he’s prepared to follow her. There probably hasn’t been this determined a would-be ...

Rolf Lassgard plays the title role in “A Man Called Ove.” Anders Nicander “A Man Called Ove” is a crisp, pleasing film adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s best-seller out of Sweden. You’d probably guess ...

“A MAN CALLED OVE” is Sweden’s entry in the competition for a Best Foreign Film Academy Award, and deservedly so. Adapted from a best-selling novel, it’s the story of a middle-aged curmudgeon (Rolf ...

"We were super excited," admits makeup artist Eva von Bahr during our recent webcam chat (watch above) when asked about her second consecutive Oscar nomination for "A Man Called Ove." "Everybody was ...

If there’s an actor as good as Rolf Lassgard when it comes to galvanizing a complicated captain of industry, part lamb, part wolf, I haven’t had the pleasure. The Swedish-born Lassgard’s latest film ...

In the Swedish dark comedy A MAN CALLED OVE, director/scriptwriter Hannes Holm takes us on a roller-coaster trip through the life of old curmudgeon. Ove (Rolf Lassgard) is the kind of guy every ...

They don't want you to believe what she saw. There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them ...

Last year, this unorthodox adaptation of author Fredrik Backman’s international bestseller of the same name became one of Sweden’s biggest box-office hits of all time. Whether it charms Australian ...

Highly active Copenhagen-based sales outfit REinvent has acquired rights to the Danish pic “Rome,” officially selected as the Göteborg Film Festival’s closing movie. The life-affirming romantic drama ...

Set in the mid-Fifties Danish countryside, Under the Sun is a sweet but slight story about the unlikely new love and friendship between two older-than-average movie characters. However, there's not a ...

In this photo taken in Dec. 2015, Swedish actress Bahar Pars poses during a photo call for the film "A Man Called Ove" in Stockholm, Sweden. Iranian-born Swedish actress Bahar Pars, who hopes to share ...