Fresh
Extremely watchable, even if it never goes as deep as it should.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Overview
Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a year at Stjärnsberg Boarding School, the only school willing to accept him. This is Erik's last chance to graduate to Upper School and he promises his mother, for his and her sake, to do all he can to stay out of trouble.
Director and cast
- Mikael Håfström Director
- Andreas Wilson as Erik Ponti
- Henrik Lundström as Pierre Tanguy
- Gustaf Skarsgård as Otto Silverhielm
- Linda Zilliacus as Marja
- Jesper Salén as Dahlén
- Mats Bergman as Melander
- Johan Rabaeus as Eriks styvfar
- Marie Richardson as Fru Ponti, Eriks mor
- Lennart Hjulström as Rektor Lindblad
- Björn Granath as Rektor
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
68%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Hafstrom's dramatic sense is ... pedestrian and snail's-pace obvious.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
Movies like Evil entertain us by serving sweet revenge on a platter, and director Mikael Hafstrom manipulates emotions more intelligently than most.
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times
Fresh
Wilson, who plays Erik, had never been in a film before Evil -- which was nominated for a best foreign-language Oscar in 2004 -- and there's no reason that he can't make many more of them.
John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
A commentary on the troubling gray area between acceptable and unacceptable forms of violence, especially where the molding of boys into 'real men' is concerned.
Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly
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