Product Details

• Actors: MÃ¥rten Klingberg, Pjotr Giro, Roberto Jelinek, Gösta Bredefeldt
• Directors: Susanna Edwards
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Swedish
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Tla
• DVD Release Date: June 26, 2007
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000PE0EX4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #160,359 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Keillers Park" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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KEILLERS PARK - DVD Movie

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Story of Sexual Awakening, July 2, 2007

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Keillers Park (DVD)

KEILLERS PARK is a moody film noir from Sweden, a story by Pia Gradvall directed by Susanna Edwards that approaches the frequently told fears and joys of sexual coming out in a stylish and inventive way. It is a film that embellishes a fine script with creative camera work, sensitive use of flashbacks to peel the onion of the story's meaning, and employs some very fine actors who keep the drama electrified.

Peter (Mårten Klingberg) is a successful thirty-something son of a wealthy engineer who stands to inherit his family business and who is engaged to a beautiful artist Maria (Karen Bergquist). At a gathering Peter notices a handsome Algerian Nassim (Pjotr Giro) and senses feelings of sexual awareness he has not known. Nassim is a happy, popular, comfortably gay man who pursues the looks exchanged. When Maria leaves town for a concert Peter and Nassim meet in Keiller Park and begin an erotic love affair: both men genuinely fall in love and the expression of their first physical encounter is one of the most subtle yet wholly erotic on film.

Peter's involvement with Nassim affects his work, results in his father disowning him as he embraces the gay life, pushes Maria out of his life, and leaves him unemployed and alone except for Nassim. The story abruptly changes when the police breakdown Peter's door and arrest him for the murder of Nassim! Peter sits with the interrogators at the police station and in his shock that Nassim is dead, unfolds the whole story of their relationship. The secrets of Peter's life and the question as to Nassim's motivations and possible continued existence mold the resolution of the story in a manner that has explored all the highs and lows of new love and the consequences of entering a life that is intolerable to the outside world.

Both Pjotr Giro and Mårten Klingberg as the lovers offer highly nuanced performances and the supporting cast is very strong. Director Edwards has a sophisticated style not only with her actors, but also with her eye for atmosphere and pacing, using techniques of black and white for special moments and glowing warm lighting for the erotic scenes. She manages to allow us to see both sides of the 'coming out' consequences in a mature manner. KEILLERS PARK is a fine art house movie. In Swedish with English subtitles. Grady Harp, July 07

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keillers Park, December 5, 2008

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bigboyone "tlm13" (johnson city , tn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Keillers Park (DVD)

this is a wonderfull and tragic film.
life can through some curves for the best of us
excellent portrails by the leading actors
you will enjoy their work

3.0 out of 5 stars REGULAR MOVIE, August 31, 2007

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Steve Spenser "The Analyst" (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Keillers Park (DVD)

Keilers Park is just a regular movie, this movie is so far from what you really expect from the histroy and the review. The movie just describes a series of events without analyzing the real personality and conflict of a gay relationship. The actor that plays Nissim is just over acted. There are too many sexual scenes for a short film, without scense. I think the Director could make a better movie with this history. For a gay movie, the music was a bad choice. The performance of Peter and his fiance save the movie.