Movie #1231 "A Man Called Ove" is a wonderful film, and I loved it! So did Dave! I had read the book for book club , and we all enjoyed the book, and this is a fine rendition of it. Very little missing, and certainly got the story and more importantly the Ove character across to the audience. This could be a successful t.v. series character, for sure (a la Doc Martin character, maybe?). I don't want to give too much away, and esp. not why he acts the way he does ---- that's for the audience to find out ---- but sufficeth it to say that his character is quirky but believable, and the film is filled with more believable characters who just annoy the heck out of Ove for one reason or another. And there's a cat! Isn't there always a cat? And the Story unfolds in a good way, smoothly moving in and out of flashbacks that give some background on this character named Ove. Incidentally, the film is swedish and so there are subtitles, but you forget about them after awhile, which proves again how entertaining the movie is. Highly recommended here ---- should be nominated for best foreign film, in my opinion. But then, how they pick foreign films is much of a mystery to many of us and the powers that be make it pretty impossible to see any of them that are nominated anyway by not showing them in our American theaters ---- that has to change because there are some terrific foreign language films out there, and this one is a winner!
A MAN CALLED OVE
2016 PG-13 5 stars out of 5
Despite being deposed as president of his condo's resident association, 59-year-old misanthrope Ove continues to plague his neighbors with dictatorial demands. But when Ove's new neighbor runs over his mailbox, the old crank finds he's met his match.
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