Swedish cinema is defined above all by Ingmar Bergman, whose psychological rigour and stark imagery set a benchmark world cinema is still measuring itself against. Persona is perhaps the purest distillation of what made him so singular. Ruben Östlund later carried the Swedish flag to Cannes with Triangle of Sadness, proving the country's taste for unsettling, idea-driven filmmaking endures.
Rating: 3.0★
And Then We Danced arrived in 2019 against a backdrop of real political tension. When the film screened at the Tbilisi Film Festival, far-right and nationalist groups organised protests outside cinemas, with some screenings requiring police protection. That reception said rather a lot about the territory the film was
Rating: 4.0★
Female genital mutilation is one of the most widely practised and least openly discussed human rights issues in the world. The World Health Organisation estimates that more than 200 million women and girls alive today have undergone some form of the procedure, with prevalence particularly high across parts of sub-
Rating: 2.5★
Ingmar Bergman made Winter Light in 1963 as the second film in what critics and scholars have come to call his "silence of God" trilogy, sandwiched between Through a Glass Darkly (1961) and The Silence (1963). The trilogy emerged from a period of intense personal and artistic reckoning
Genre Drama
★★★ — Persona (1966)
Genre Drama
★ — Only God Forgives (2013)
Genre Drama
★★★ — The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Genre Drama
★★ — Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
Genre Drama
★★½ — Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Genre Drama
★★★ — Monos (2019)
Genre Drama
★★★½ — The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020)
Genre Comedy
★★½ — Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Genre Drama
★★★★ — Lilya 4-ever (2002)
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