Surprisingly incoherent and boring

A different way of telling a story

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Once in a while you encounter one of these movies that is honest and true, this movie surely is. This results in mixed reviews of course as the normal Hollywood addicts expect a happy end, lots of effects, unreal acting and a plot from the book. In this case the plot is from the book, but then is not twisted to please the mass audience, but reflects quite well the true events, as the book and this movie are based on real events. The story has several layers, more than enough to scare the normal audience, and also depicts the seventies as they were. And yes, everybody was smoking in these times and yes, nudity was and is normal when you are not raised in that superficially precocious country with 50 States. Too bad of course of the missing scene with Olof Palme, cut out by the director to prevent being sued by his son, but this is more than made up by the true characters that are human and multi-dimensional for a change, although less easy to identify with for the people with not too much fantasy. I also like the time taken to deepen the characters and not rushing through the main plot, nice and slow, we are looking to a movie to spend our time and be touched, not only to come closer to death.

A movie to check on how our former government (Social now) took advantage of the previous Liberal system ..And if the terrible female brothel owners (Dagmar Gloss) who took advantage of young girls into prostitution against their will.The girls was girls with problem and the government take care of and after that being used by the Hight politician and outhers really really wealthy people who don't care about outer people..Interesting story about Sweden's gruesome history and how rich people exploit vulnerable women in the past so liberal society where money is more important than the people ..Luckily both Sweden and the United States throw out the Liberal government ..

CALL GIRL is one of those slow and sombre Scandinavian productions that's all about the slow burn. It tells the true story of a scandalous call girl ring running in Sweden in the 1970s in which underage girls were procured for leading politicians of the era. Names have been changed but the viewer nonetheless comes away with some idea of the corruption inherent during the era, and of course we all know that most countries have their own skeletons in the closet from that decade.As a film, CALL GIRL doesn't really excite or involve the viewer too much, although it's certainly very well made and beautifully directed in places. The subject matter is racy but somehow never sleazy; there's a classy slickness to the production that veers on the right side of taste. Saying that, there's still a heck of a lot of nudity from the young women involved, so it's not going to be for all tastes. The acting is of a generally realistic standard, too. My main issue is with the overlong running time; at least half the has elapsed before the story begins for real with the police investigation and some efficient pruning could have turned this into something really remarkable.

Great acting, especially from Pernilla August, that's why I don't give it a one. But if I just wanted to watch realistic people I wouldn't need to go to the cinema. I go to the cinema to laugh, be inspired, be emotionally moved, be scared, have my views challenged, be surprised etc. A given movie does not have to meet all these criteria to be good, one might be enough. But this movie doesn't meet any. I read one professional review (Uppsala Nya Tidning) of this title saying that it was "exciting and emotionally captivating". I would say that the movie's total lack thereof is its main problem. It's extremely slow paced and its main themes are very familiar.I am at a loss to understand why this Swedish movie has managed to receive unanimously great reviews from the Swedish professional reviewers. Makes me question their objectiveness. Or they may go to the cinema for entirely different reasons than I do.