The most beautiful love story in the festival this
year is also a smart blockbuster comedy from
Sweden—oh happy day! Ove is a grumpy widower
who patrols his block every morning like
clockwork, locking up stray bikes and telling
his neighbors exactly what he thinks of them.
Thankfully, his tight-knit community knows that
his cantankerous veneer hides the grief and
despair he feels over the death of his beloved
wife. The film moves between a series of comedic
failed attempts by Ove to off himself so
that he can join his wife (turns out he’s really
bad at suicide), and flashbacks to his earlier
life when he met, wooed, and married his soul
mate. Fortunately for everyone, the arrival
of new neighbors gives Ove an unexpected
reason to keep going—and challenges him to
rediscover in himself the man his wife loved.
In
Person: Director Hannes Holm (Thu, Fri) .
