The Guitar Mongoloid
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRuben Östlund
Written byRuben Östlund
Produced byAnna Sohlman
Kalle Boman
CinematographyTibor Gent
Edited byHarry Lewinsson
Distributed byTriangelfilm AB
Release date
  • 1 October 2004 (2004-10-01)
Running time
89 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

The Guitar Mongoloid (Swedish: Gitarrmongot) is a 2004 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ruben Östlund, about different people living outside the norms in the fictional city Jöteborg, strikingly similar to real-life Göteborg. Although not a documentary, most of the people seen in the film are non-actors more or less playing themselves.

Selected cast

  • Erik Rutström as Erik
  • Ola Sandstig as Ola
  • Britt-Marie Andersson as neurotic woman
  • Julia Persdotter as Ola's girlfriend
  • P-A Emanuelsson
  • Anna Johansson
  • Mikael Allu
  • Bjarne Gunnarsson
  • Pär Berg
  • David Olandersson

Reception

The film was met by mixed but overall positive reviews, with a rating of 3.6 out of 5 based on eight reviews at the Swedish-language review aggregator website Kritiker.se.[1] Carl-Johan Malmberg at Svenska Dagbladet gave it 5 out of 6 and called it "a series of sabotages: against our expectations, against good taste, as well as against the boredom of the normal Swedish film with its moderately thoughtful, moderately funny, moderately empathetic, and quickly forgotten stories."[2] Jens Peterson at Aftonbladet was less enthusiastic and rated the film 2 out of 5, summarising it as "Jackass without heart, Candid Camera without humour."[3] The film was honored with the FIPRESCI Award at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ The Guitar Mongoloid (in Swedish). Kritiker.se. Retrieved on 2009-04-14
  2. ↑ Malmberg, Carl-Johan (2004-10-01) "En debut vi väntat på" (in Swedish). Svenska Dagbladet. Retrieved on 2009-04-14.
  3. ↑ Peterson, Jens (2004-10-01) "Recensioner: Gitarrmongot" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. Retrieved on 2009-04-14.
  4. ↑ "27th Moscow International Film Festival (2005)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-04-03. Retrieved 2013-04-09.
  5. ↑ Awards 2005 Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine. FIPRESCI. Retrieved on 2009-07-26.


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