I was in a fairly cranky mood before this film started. Work had not gone well, I had a lot going on, and things just generally were not making me happy.
And afterwards, I felt a hell of a lot better. This is one of those films that looks at an individual learning to integrate into his society again after a tragedy - in this case, a prototypical grumpy old man of the Swedish variety, whose wife has recently died. He is at the point of suicide, unable to cope with a world without her, until life in all its multitudinous forms keeps on intruding into his world and making him re-engage with the world.
Funny, moving and altogether quite human, this is a pleasantly rambling film. Okay, so there's probably one subplot too many that ends up left at a loose end, but all in all, this is a thoroughly satisfying piece of cinema.
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